Word: thespians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noted actor went on to discuss the difference between the stage and radio from a thespian's standpoint. Pointing out that broadcasting makes for a purer art of the theatre, he continued, "Whereas the reactions of an audience may make or break a show on the stage, only comedians must have an active audience on the air. My weekly broadcasts are given without onlookers, for then I can re-enact a drama for its own sake. If people want to applaud, let them do so in their homes...
...training for the post as trap drummer in a vaudeville orchestra, while his newly-appointed successor, twenty-eight-year old Stanton M. White, has approached the dramatic muse through a career as "art photographer" and county pay-master. Still further assurance of his fitness for the post of thespian Cato in Boston is found in the circumstance that Mr. White's father was once on the stage. That he is the son-in-law of Mayor Curley's brother and that he passed up the high position of county paymaster when it was discovered that a civil service examination...
Yancey Cravat, silver-voiced lawyer, dead shot, thespian idealist, came up from the Cimarron, from a dubious past, to decorous Wichita, Kan., captivated Wichita's belle, Sabra Venable, carried her off with him over the protests of her family to help build the new Territory of Oklahoma. They settled in Osage City (a fictitious name), where houses were scarce, water scarcer, whiskey and sudden death plentiful, a man's life worth less than a horse's. Yancey started a newspaper, made many friends, many enemies. At Osage's first church service, held in Arkansas Grafs tent-saloon, Yancey killed...
Three courses of instruction are to be offered this coming half year by the Cambridge School of the Drama, it was learned last night from a preliminary announcement of courses which is now in the process of publication. This booklet describing the new Thespian School contains a summary of rules governing the new institution, and the regulations concerning the conduct of the courses...
...forth comes from his recent so-called fight with Campolo, who has been variously called the worst, the saddest, and the most pitiful exponent of the leather-slinging art to appear for a long time. And the fame which Scott garnered from this bout is certainly much more Thespian than pugilistic in nature. It wouldn't have been surprising if Scott had been given the job of head Roman gladiator in the next Hollywood production of Ben Hur as the result of his meeting with the toppling tower of the Argentine, but that of opponent (one New York sports writer...