Word: svengali
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Wilton Lackaye, 69, famed actor; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Famed chiefly for his role of Svengali in Du Maurier's Trilby (1895), he played for years on Broadway. One of the founders of the Actors' Equity Association, he was an early member of the Lambs' Club and the Catholic Actors' Guild of America. His first wife, Alice Evans, died in 1919. In 1928 he secretly married Kathryn Alberta Riley, 37, who had nursed him back to health. In 1920 Lackaye paid a visit to John J. McGraw, during which it was claimed...
Certain she would say no naughty things, a young lady last week let an indiscreet young man demonstrate his hypnotic powers on her at a "psychology" party of Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.) students. When the proud young Svengali suggested "Wake up!" she failed to respond. Not until 45 min. later did she rouse herself naturally. The incident frightened the experimental psychologists so thoroughly that Adelene Bowie, dean of women, noticed the commotion. Forthwith she strictly forbade any more such pranks...
...Genius (Warner) differs from Svengali in the fact that John Barrymore's protégé is this time a dancer instead of a singer and a young man instead of a young woman. Barrymore also uses a slightly different make-up-a thin mustache, straggling goatee and a clamp on his left leg, to make him clubfooted. Unable to be a dancer himself, he becomes an impresario hypnotized by ambition to make an expert dancer out of someone else. Presently he finds a suitable subject -a young man with a Slav countenance and an impetuous disposition (Donald Cook...
...been renewed. Warner Bros, had their profits from his activities on the screen enhanced by Barrymore's discovery of Marian Marsh. He chose her on the strength of an appearance which slightly resembles that of Mrs. John Barrymore (Dolores Costello) to play the lead in Svengali. Cinemactress Marsh did well enough to earn a long term contract; in her next picture, she will be the star...
Metropolitan--"Svengali", famous drama of music and hypnotism starring John Barrymore in the lead and Marian Marsh as Trilby...