Word: portrayers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Portray Occupations...
...saddest part of the business appears when it is considered from a literary point of view. We concede that an author may be allowed to delve into the realms of indecency as far as is necessary to portray the whole truth of his picture. But Mr. Sergel harps on this theme and its attendant circumstances for 176 pages--and does not reach the truth even then. His glut of torment is avowedly only to set the stage and fix the characters in their primary position, but even with this achieved he tells but half the story...
...Ball Room. At 11.30 o'clock, the Shakespeare Festival will start. Festival music will be played by the Pierian Sodality Orchestra. Following the processional march, in which will assemble all the historical characters of the period, including Queen Elizabeth, Sir Walter Raleigh, Richard Burbage, and Shakespeare, various groups will portray characters from many of Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies...
...several numbers by professional actors. Miss Louise Brown, the famous danseuse now starring in "Sally, Irene and Mary", will give a solo dance, and a group of actors,--among them Miss Sydney Reynolds, Miss Hazel Vernon, Walter Regan, and Burford Hampden,--who are now playing in Boston theatres will portray "Richard the Third...
...there was for burlesque-and how truly, safely and amusingly Mr. Davis has handled this scene. Mr. Davis' rescue from the ranks of melodrama is to be applauded. No one likes to see melodrama better than do I; but it must be a pleasure to be able to portray life as it really is and make it vitally interesting. Many a man can visualize a heroine saved from a villain's grasp by the heroic pistol point; but only the rare genius can make the purchase of a new golf course poignant...