Word: truex
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ernest Truex, who was Very Good Eddie last season, is Gilbert this year, but he's still very good. A trifle naive and inexperienced, perhaps, but very good, nevertheless. Watching and listening to him, you can almost forget that he is only acting a part and that off-stage he has a few children of his own. What more can be said for, Mr. Truex...
...distinguished artists and theatrical companies have volunteered their services: Mrs. Fiske, Marie Tempest, Sir Herbert Tree, Edith Wynne--Matthison, Lydia Lindgren, Mary Ryan and company in the second act of "The Hour Glass"; Clifton Crawford, Margaret. Romaine and John Charles Thomas, from "Her Soldier Boy" at the Shubert; Ernest Truex, Alice Dovey, Oscar Shaw and Julia Mills, of the "Very Good Eddie" company; the Aborn Opera Company, and acts from Diaghileff's Ballet Russe, B. F. Keith's and the Orpheum Theatres...
...Ernest Truex, as the effiminate husband, is a remarkable example of what a good character actor can do. No one who saw him as the tough boy "detectuff" in "The Dummy" a few years ago would even recognize him in his present role. He has a rare gife of becoming not himself, but the particular person he is enacting for the present. He is thoroughly at home in his present part, having played it once before in "One Night," Philip Batholomae's farce, on which "Very Good Eddie" is founded...