Word: stage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought up in Buffalo in what she terms one of the "Harvard periods" of that city, Miss Cornell made her theatrical debut with the Washington Square Players in 1917. Since that time she has acted in many Shakespearean and modern plays, becoming one of the most accomplished and renowned stage actress of the present...
...second stage has begun with respect to tutoring at Harvard. The University has been fully aroused and has now commenced a major offensive against the problem. No one can doubt its business-like intent after reading the details of the new University-sponsored tutoring bureau...
...then, has "No Time For Comedy" packed the houses in New York and gives every indication of packing the houses on the road? The answer is a combination of three names, three figures who have given the contemporary stage in America a great deal of its high quality and some of its greatness,--Cornell, McClintic, and Miclziner, star, director, and stage designer. They put on a production so polished, so beautifully done in every respect that Mr. Behrman's temporary foibles fade into the background...
Miss Cornell's performance was magnificent. Criticizing her or making an attempt at analysis would be futile. All one can do is sit in awe and reverence before someone who is making stage history with every part she takes. The rest of the cast, fine actors all of them, are forced to play second fiddle, not because of their lack, but her tremendous skill...
...Angels Wash Their Faces" even got its title idea from a previous picture. "Hotel For Women" was a confused imitation of "The Women" and "Stage Door" with the spontaneity of neither. The only original element was the appearance of Elsa Maxwell who was poked into the script in such a slip-shod fashion that she almost seemed to be posing for a movie interview rather than taking part in the picture...