Word: roles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn, he attended Brooklyn's famed Polytechnic Preparatory School; then Harvard University; then studied abroad. He first appeared on the stage as "a walking gentleman" in Sir Frank R. Benson's company in 1901 at Brighton, England. In recent years he has been chiefly associated with classic roles; presenting one of the most widely known Hamlets in the U. S., and the most popular present-day revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, generally considered his best role. He has his own Manhattan theatre in which he presents revivals and occasional new plays in a gradually widening repertory. Last year...
...Leiber's characterizations of Hamlet is impressive and forceful, and he does not endeavor so to emphasize his role as to throw the other characters unreasonably into the background. On the contrary his supporting cast contributes greatly to the excellence of his own interpretation of Hamlet, Louis Leon Hall and Irby Marshall as the king and queen being particularly satisfactory. Philip Quin in the part of Polonius somehow tails, in the opinion of the reviewer, to give an altogether persuasive representation, but, inasmuch as the true character of the Lord Chamberlain is largely a matter for opinion. Mr. Quin...
...farmer who almost drowned his wife before realizing that he loved her. It is based on the story, "A Trip to Tilsit," by the German Hermann Sudermann, and manages to remain picturesquely soporific for a long evening. Janet Gaynor (seen in Seventh Heaven) contributes a pathetic beauty to the role of the girl-wife. The Student Prince has had other incarnations. First it was the play Old Heidelberg, in which Richard Mansfield appeared; then an operetta, produced by the Shuberts. Now it is a film in which Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer are directed by Ernst Lubitsch, whom most people...
Engaged. Cyril Francis Maude, 65, famed English actor (retired), widower (1924); to Mrs. Harry Thew, widow (1926) of the onetime master of the Brexhill Harriers. The Maudes were oldtime neighbors of the Thews at Little Common, near Brexhill. Recently Mr. Maude was offered the role of Samuel Pepys in And So To Bed, also the lead in The Zoo (new play by Michael Arlen and Winchell Smith); said he: "I am already engaged to be married...
...murder," he stoically awaits her vengeance and marches off with the detective, scornful of a freedom that might have been bought at the expense of his soul. Projecting such mental conflicts is a difficult matter. Muni Wisen-frend does it brilliantly. Last year he played his first English-speaking role as an old man in We Americans. He nearly always plays old men, though he himself is only 26. The Yiddish Theatre will probably have to get along without its old man for some time now. It is odd that John