Word: roles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Cumberland plays Pickwick. He once used to roll under and from under beds in the parlor- bedroom-and-bath era of U. S. farce, complaining bitterly to his friends of the sad condition of the theatre that necessitated such ig- noble dramaturgy. He now has a more congenial role, but not, prob- ably, for long. Though cartoons of Dickens's narrative have been faith- fully staged, theatre-goers will find themselves bored by what is, after all, only the Pickwick tabloid Papers...
...smoky staleness of a night club. Barbara Stanwyck came that suddenly to the apogee of Broadway nights. At first she sang in a cabaret and imitated stage celebrities. Then she had an understudy part in Lily Sue (because Willard Mack* happened to notice her tall, auburn beauty), later a role in The Noose-now her name in white lights. Arthur Hopkins has cast her opposite Hal Skelly, as a slangy lady of the burlesque wheel, who is unfortunately in love with a no-account, shiftless husband (Hal Skelly), a "comic hoofer" without "a laugh above the hips," without timbre...
...this verdict I speak but as foreman of the jury, a jury which has been empaneled from men who have devoted a lifetime to weighing the evidence. To the best of my ability I have avoided, in laying before you the evidence on which our verdict was found, the role of special pleader, being content to follow Darwin's own example-Let the truth speak for itself!" Having congratulated the president upon a masterful pronouncement, British science listened to further addresses...
...financial or the naval power of Britain, the industrial power of Germany, or even the high birth rate of Italy. Her role always has been to represent the general interest of Europe. She is the cement of small nations...
...cast was an equally daring move. Only one of the principal female characters was interpreted by an actress who had had speaking experience on the stage. The role of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, was entrusted to a young foreign woman?Rosamond Pinchot of the U. S. As the nun in The Miracle she had won recognition as a pantomimist. Now she was called upon to speak for the first time in her career?and in a strange tongue before foreigners. Cast with her were such clearly Teutonic actresses as Katta Sterna (Puck), Maria Solveg (Titania), Tillie Losch (First...