Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Actors are born and not made", said Ben Lyon, popular First National Film star, in an interview granted the CRIMSON last night. "An actor never gets far on either stage or screen, unless his abilities, for that field are innate. To be sure, an actor can be trained just as an athlete can, but no matter how well trained an actor may be, he is not likely to succeed unless he has some abilities to build...
...best training for the screen, including all facilities now in use, is the travelling stock company. Actors and actresses presenting their show in a different town every two or three nights, must deliver, or they will soon find themselves without engagements. Travelling actors live a hard life, and in every way, this prepares them for the strenuous life of the moving picture actor...
...neither Harvard nor Princeton need take this dictum too much to heart, for other choices among the Yale senior statistics arouse suspicion of bias or weakness of judgement. For why should "Shef" rank Greta Garbo high among the beloved actresses of the screen, at the same time entirely neglecting Lya de Putti? Since the attractions of these two charming ladies are closely allied by a certain common denominator, one would expect them to be equally appreciated by the Yale man-about-Chapel-Street, so renowned in ribald Princeton and Harvard verse. So we earnest hope that this balloting will...
...realizes it or not, a motion picture writer or actor is working most of the time until his play is produced. Whether he is at work or elsewhere, he is constantly thinking how he should act in this instance, or how is that going to look on the screen...
...College Humor have united in this joint project by which they intend to make a careful survey of 30 of the larger colleges of the country and after which they intend to pick ten men who will then be given every opportunity by the First National Corporation to become screen stars. Sometime next month, to be announced later by the sponsors of the plan, a make up man, a camera man, and a competent judge of photographic personality and studio requirements will come to Cambridge. These men will choose ten applicants whom they will "shoot" immediately. The films will then...