Word: roles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Jewett tried manfully to bear the title role and came even closer to success than did all his supporters down to the Harvard super pilgrims. His appearance was all that could be asked for, his eye wild enough; and his voice smacked somewhat of the wilderness, but the total effect was unconvincing. The part requires too long a performance of sustained excellence. Miss Francesca Braggiotti, to come to the more important matter of Salome and the Seven Veils, was not quite all we dropped for from that mad, bad daughter of Herodias. To give credit where credit...
Last week, Senator Bayard, in his role of Treasurer of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, decided that he was sick of Republican talk; so he ruffled his flowing, black silk necktie and emitted a broadside against President Coolidge. Said he: "The Republicans have been banking on Coolidge popularity but are now trying to sell the President personally to the country through a press agent-Bruce Barton-who is best known as the author of the book The Man Nobody Knows. This is simply an effort to draw red herring across the trail of the dismal record of the complete failure...
...difficult role, Helen Menken brings an unfailing art, frequently of superb power. Her hands alone express the quintessence of anguish. Basil Rathbone, the man married to the form of a woman, supports her with a smoothly finished, under-standing performance, as does Arthur Wontner whose work in the second act is one of the finest things the season has discovered...
...less than six Adamses are listed on the program, and before the final curtain falls, another one has been added. All of them cover their roles adequately. For real realism, however, they are not in a class with two minor characters. One of these, Maggie, played by Beulah Bondi, in the role of the servant who has been with the family so long that she has become, not a servant, but a retainer, fairly runs away with the show. The other, Frank Owens, nee Fleming Ward, adds the other true touch by playing the victim in the fight scene...
Bebe Daniels plays the title role, but the title scarcely fits the role. The popular notion of a Campus Flirt, born of the novels of Percy Marks, and Scott Fitzgerald's maunderings upon the younger generation and jelly rolls, demands that a Flirt flirt. By the same token, if Flirt means flirt, Charlie Paddock means run. And except for one long distance shot of "the fastest human" showing his heels to a bunch of girl hurdlers, Paddock did even less running than Bebe did flirting...