Word: talented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most refreshing to find in an ordinary or should I say extraordinary, newsmagazine such evidence of literary talent...
...heard the noises of the night, the tree-frogs and crickets, the frogs at the wet place beyond the milk house. . .-. The leaves of the poplar tree lifted and turned swaying outward and all quivered together, holding the night coolness. . . ." The Significance. Essentially Author Roberts writes with the talent of a poet rather than of a novelist. Creating in a prose form, she sometimes goes far beyond the facts of her narrative into a poetic interpretation of their significance in her characters. Her feeling for heart and flesh is so complete, her understanding of it so thorough and so articulate...
...Hope Hampton produced the agreeably unexpected-a more than good enough voice, a fair acting talent and a head of red hair that in most prima donnas would make up for everything. Here she is occupied in crashing U. S. society with the help of an organ-grinder posing as a prince. There are a few, a very few, jokes...
...directors of the theatre thought I was talent full," he relates, "but during the ten years of my service in Moscow Art Theatre from the period thousand nine hundred six till thousand nine hundred sixteen they gave me no one but one speaking part. All other parts were dumb...
...actor-managers; e. g. George M. Cohan. But they differ from the old school which founded one of the surest traditions of the theatre on the actor-manager principle. Usually the contemporary actor-managers present many shows ; appear themselves only occasionally; i. e. they are businessmen with an acting talent. There is, however, a famed actress-manager who last season showed herself an artist with a talent for business. She managed, directed and acted in (and will do the same this season) the Civic Repertory Theatre. She is Eva LeGallienne...