Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dean Hampden is the only actor-manager, in the sense of the term as it was applied to such as Edwin Booth and Richard Mansfield, in the U. S. today. He is the financial and artistic force "behind every play shown in the Walter Hampden Theatre on upper Broadway. A beardless patriarch, aged only 48, he follows his profession with perhaps sterner self-discipline but with more self-consciousness than his brothers, Paul, John, and Malcolm, have developed in following their respective professions of painting, law and literature...
...summary: ARMY HARVARD Mansfield, l.f. r.f., Wenner Kruger, r.f. l.f., Mahady, Ward Strother, c. c., Burns, Upton Malloy, l.g. r.g., Rex, Harper Messinger, Seimmerman, r.g. l.g., Farrell, Jaffe...
...Score--Army 37, Harvard 24. Goals--Strother 7, Mansfield 4, Malloy 2, Seimmerman 2, Gruger, Messinger, Wenner 4, Farrell, Mahady. Fouls--Kruger 2, Malloy, Wenner 5, Farrell 3, Burns 2, Mahady, Rex. Referee--Toby. Umpire--Edward Hastings. Time--Two 20-minute periods...
...full of Gascon gallantries. His rapier was rapid. But his nose was freakishly long, disfiguring. Therefore he felt frustrated in his love affair with Roxanne, and Edmond Rostand's famed heroic comedy turns into tragedy. Cyrano has made theatrical history in the versions of Constant Coquelin and Richard Mansfield. In the. U. S., of late years, Walter Hampden has honored both himself and the role. On Christmas night he revived Cyrano, scored again. Ingeborg Torrup was a new, petite, luscious Roxanne...
...himself been in the show business for 30 years, first in a singing stock company in Colorado Springs, then as a legit-actor touring the Middle West in comedy, tragedy and operetta, and subsequently as wardrobe man, property man, chorus man, transportation agent, scenery-shifter (for Mansfield, Mojeska, Mantell), tourist guide, interior decorator, before his first cinema appearance as an extra in a wild west two-reeler. His face had been smeared with pie in many slapsticks when a director selected it to be a crook-cripple's in The Miracle Man. Alonzo Chaney's present salary, kept...