Word: roles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Negro Actor Ingram, not to be confused with Director Rex Ingram (Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) has been on & off stage and screen for almost 20 years, played by far his greatest role as de Lawd in the cinema version of Green Pastures. Forty-two, 6 ft. 2 in. tall, 225 lb., he owes most of the vigor of his acting to the vigor of his physique and personality. A medical student as well as an actor, he confesses to finding his career greatly hampered because of his race, dramatizes his position by suddenly placing his dark-brown hand...
Forgotten by one generation, this rollicking ballad of 1869 was revived for the next. In 1901 Charles Frohman produced Playwright Clyde Fitch's Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines. Female lead was pretty, 21-year-old Ethel Barrymore in her first starring role. The characters whistled and sang the old ditty but audiences blithely believed that both the dandified captain and his "Horse Marines" were something cooked up for their special entertainment...
...this week, will probably stay, not breathlessly, nor dewey-eyed, but merely out of curiosity. "Rags are more than riches when worn for virtue's sake" is the moral of "City Girl," a drab tale of seduction in wicked old New York. Phyllis Brooks in the title role does nothing to better a deplorably poor picture...
What is the role of Japan in the world of tomorrow? Can the nation which seems destined to rule an empire in the East be ignored by western statesmen? What of Spain? Will she ever regain her position as a power in Europe? And if so, where will her support be placed? What of America? What of the colossus of the West, the nation still thinking in terms of nineteenth century isolation, still shrinking from the cold, harsh realities of world politics...
...above all, what of Soviet Russia? Far north in her bloody seclusion, she seems to the Vagabond to be resting, waiting, watching; perhaps she is to play the role of Phillip of Macedon who too watched and waited while his neighbors exhausted themselves with incessant warfare. Like Phillip she may be waiting for one last destructive war, waiting for the moment to swoop down from the north, destroy her foolish, petty, squabbling neighbors, and build a new civilization on the ruins...