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...Monologist Howe, who writes her own skits, comes by her penetrating literary manner legitimately. Daughter of a Harvard Overseer, sister of Editor Quincy Howe of The Living Age, she tried one year at Radcliffe, then studied with Georges Vitray in Paris, later at the Theatre Guild's defunct school under Winifred Lenihan. Critics, who had not seen her in Manhattan since 1932, applauded her sly caricatures of the U. S. scene, rated her less profound than Draper & Skinner, wittier than either. Some of the Howe Characters & Caricatures...
...these circumstances, Elizabeth Bergner's performance is on the order of Monologist Ruth Draper's. She is first seen as an ingenuous gamin, pigeontoed, stealing sweets and spinning an incredible yarn about her eventful life, which includes the experience of motherhood. Then she is the wise little gnome keeping willful Sebastian Sanger, her lover, from taking his brother Caryl's girl. She seems to lose stature, shrivel up with unhappiness as Sebastian's mistreated wife. And her little body expands miraculously with an almost majestic grief in the short scene following her baby's death...
Noel Coward once told Mrs. Ethel Harriman Russell, daughter of Washington's famed Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman: "You're no actress; you're a monologist. Why don't you write a play?" Last week, after a trial period, Mrs. Russell signed a regular contract as scenarist with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, planned to take her two children to Hollywood...
Author Sale, 36, vaudeville monologist (opens next week in Hello Paris, at Newark, N. J.), found "The Specialist" one of his best acts, wrote it down hoping to sell a few books to friends (TIME, Aug. 26, 1929). When not trouping he lives in Scarsdale, N. Y., with his three daughters. Test copies of the new Ex-Lax campaign included the straw-munching Specialist's accounts of a rural traffic policeman who took Ex-Lax, be- came healthy, smiled so much he was made an official; the yarn of a dentist who did no business, gave Ex-Lax away, made...
...regular part, that of an aged Negro, in a melodrama at the old Philadelphia Museum (1877). He has since appeared in 325 plays, directing 33 of them. He was leading man for Mme. Modjeska (see p. 44), once supported Edwin Booth. His daughter, Cornelia Otis Skinner, is a famed monologist. One of Actor Skinner's chief rivals in the impersonation of old men is his friend George Arliss (see p. 69). Famed Skinner roles: Richelieu, The Harvester, The Honor of the Family, Kismet...