Word: tation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more suggested now and then the weary, wizened routine, the treadmill acting, that is the other pitfall of stock theatres. The rest came alertly, intelligently, to their parts, shaped them into such characters as the thinly sketched play permitted; had not only learned their "lines" without slip or hesi- tation, with well distributed emphasis and shadings, but also gave their speeches conversational air. The whole representation moved in brisk, elastic pace, free from stumble or jolt, from obvious patching and smoothing