Word: stage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have put in some good new songs, the best being "Sweetheart, We Need Each Other." RKO's policy of revivifying somewhat shopworn stars by publicizing them as new discoveries has worked out well with Bebe Daniels. She may not have as good a voice as Ziegfeld's stage Rita (Ethylind Terry) but she sings well enough and gets her lines over. Best shots : Miss Daniels in her metal dress; a Mexican padrone respect fully kissing a moneyed young man be cause he takes him to be a safecracker...
Whatever her tendencies toward the maternal might be. Mrs. Fiske was in no condition to see babies. It was her opening night, she had been generous and thoughtful all evening on the stage, she was tired. So she passed off the invitation as the pleasantest of pleasantries, laughed sweetly and patronizingly, and before the proud mother was quite aware of it, the door was closed...
...Mitchell, one of the most popular actors on the American stage, who is now starring in "The Whole Town's Talking" at the Plymouth Theatre remarked, "the actors whom I know who have gone over to the talkies for short periods have universally disliked the work. There is none of the freedom and spirit of the legitimate stage,--none of the charm. It is the personal contact with the audience that makes the acting profession fascinating...
...know, the audience does about fifty percent of the work in an ordinary performance. A good, hearty, infectious laugh out front will put a whole new aspect into the action on the stage. When you know that you have the audience with you the play fairly rolls along. But if the house is feeling glum, then you have to double your efforts and cheer them up--put them in the spirit of the thing. There can be no such close relationship between audience and actor in the talking pictures, and with that relationship most of the fascination of the stage...
...what the effect of the talkies on the legitimate theatre would be. "The time may come," he said, "when the actors and actresses may be driven into the talking field by the force of sheer necessity; but unless such an unfortunate state of affairs should occur, the legitimate stage, will draw, and will hold, the cream of the acting profession...