Word: roles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Your "Prohibitor Cannon" is by no means a big gun. In a real nation such as France, Germany or Great Britain, he would not even be a popgun. For we are not yet a Nation but just an aggregation of races, culls-as it were. . . . The historic role of all religions, when their power is equal to their holy malice, is that of a Persecutor. When they can no longer use, the faggots and screws they use franchises and senators. I have three special aversions. They are Meddlesome Methodists, edifying editors and righteous realtors. No law shall ever prevent...
...Kochalov's real name is Shverubovitch. He has been with the Moscow Art Theatre since 1900, and toured the U. S. a few years ago in The Lower Depths, Three Sisters, The Brothers Karamazov and An Enemy of the People. Russians think his greatest part is the name role in Hamlet. The Soviet Government bestowed on him the cherished title "People's Artist of the Republic." Actor Kochalov adds to his large income by giving recitals in Moscow. His wife, Madame Litovtseva, is an actress and producer of the Moscow Art Company. Their son, Vadim, has been...
...withdraw from active direction of the corporations in whose finances the House of Morgan was chiefly interested; would confide their management to such capable "outsiders" as the Owen D. Young of today; and would assume on a grand scale what has become the House of Morgan's paternal role toward such high bouncing babes as General Motors...
Miss Cowl expressed pride in the fact that she holds two Shakespearian records: first for the most performances of any Shakespearian role, which she holds as a result of 698 performances of Juliet; and second, for the presentation of Juliet seven times a week a thing which she did frequently but which no other actress has ever attempted because of the physical and emotional strain of the role...
Blanche Yurka is tall, almost burly. As the placid wife of improvidential Hjalmar Ekdal in The Wild Duck she filled an ample role to which her body, her accomplishments and her God better suit her than the tense thing to which she has tried to suit herself in Hedda Gabler. She gives a certain effect of languor, but it is the languor, not of a bitter neurotic, but of a temporarily awakened marble slowly reverting to stone...