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...small side-room of the great building was a great oriel window, with a deep seat from which one looked out upon treetops, lawns and towers. Many of those who waited, to solace themselves took down some volume of an antick poet or tragedian, and reposed themselves on the window-seat or upon the luxurious cushioned benches. Some were seen to become immediately absorbed in the skillfully told fable before them, others to gaze abstractedly out of doors at the dark and mysterious evergreens. Still others occupied themselves in scrutinizing the many beautiful female passengers, who continually entered and went...
...Peabody Playhouse, would have been tortured into a drama of epic grandcur. It has all the essentials of an O'Neill magnum opus; there's murder, and adultery, and starved sexuality, and problems of passion galore. It might very well have been worked up by America's foremost tragedian into a magnificent scream-fest, with an hour out for supper and a year's run on Broadway...
...Breadwinner immeasurably, notably the acting of gentle, toothy Mr. Matthews, who somehow suggests the kind old water rat in The Wind in the Willows. When a young man, Mr. Matthews clerked in a London bookstore. One day he learned that at his very desk once toiled the great tragedian Sir Henry Irving. Bookseller Matthews promptly changed his vocation, got a job as call boy at the Princess Theatre. At that show-shop he was given his first part, later appearing with Ellen Terry, Sir Gerald du Maurier and other notables in the British theatre's heyday. He first went...
...from Blankley's (Warner). By the same mental process which makes even the feeblest joke sound funny when whispered in church, the sight of a tragedian and screen romanticist as eminent as John Barrymore trying, at a dinner party, to cut a rubber squab which squirts out gravy and squeaks, is more hilarious than the same scene would be if a recognized clowner were playing it. But there are other reasons why The Man from Blankley's is unusual comedy. Its plot concerns an inebriated lord who, due to his condition and the heavy fog, arrives...
CHAINS-Theodore Dreiser-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Lesser novels and stories by the American Tragedian...