Word: whilom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...test of "The Hottentot," last evening, by good report of previous pieces, performance at the St. James escapes equally the usual shortcomings. Only one player in William Collier's whilom farce acted in conventional stock-company fashion--with half an eye and more on the audience, incessant play of mechanical gesture and glance, the air that says in fidgets: "You must look at me." Only one 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...