Word: mime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Cohan was born in 1878 on July 4. He has emphasized this accident ever since by waving the U. S. flag whenever possible. This irritating propensity, together with his blatant assurance, are the most disagreeable qualities in a man who is otherwise a shrewd and skillful playwright, a mime whose side-of-the-mouth technique with songs or wisecracks has made him a success in an almost infinite number of "American comedies," from Little Johnny Jones to The Merry Malones...
Despite the pathetic fallacy upon which this film is built, there is in it plenty of sentimental and .emotional appeal. Such sad scenes are shown as the one wherein the mournful mime requires of a doctor some remedy for his sorrow and is told to look upon the efforts of the finest clown in Rome-none other, as he glumly reflects, than himself. Lon Chaney goes off on a tear in the part of tragic Tito. While it puts some limit upon his metamorphic talent, he is able still to twist his face into many a contorted grin...
Pheleas Bedard was a mime as well as a singer. His little face was covered with a tufty white beard above which two tiny eyes were set like shoebuttons. He often lifted his eyebrows in an arch grimace, to show that the rhyming words had a double meaning...
Shaw might be accused of being mercenary if financial terms were the only ones for which he cared. But true artist that he is he has something to say about who shall mime his characters. Tunney would do very well, but there is in addition to a hero a villain. And the villain a the author has his way and this author usually does will be acted by the unfortunate Mr. Dempesey Shaw's kownness is remarkable; but if memory serves correctly he has other motives than aesthetic ones. He had a wager up once on the Dempsey Carpentier fight...
...Monologue, Le Mime, et la Farce" will be the subject of the eleventh of Professor Alfred Jeanroy's lectures on "Le Theatre Francais au Voyer Vie", which he will deliver this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson...