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... are incapable of seeing through the charm or talent of an actor or actress to the idiocy of the film beneath. Now criticism is less than half concerned with any particular actor or actress. The player is transient what is played is or ought to be permanent ...
... NTS la CARTE By JLAN £OTT Stage Fantastia SOME will no doubt believe, after seeing Theatre Royal, that noted actors and actresses are bound to be flam boyant people bursting with pride and temperament, for whom marriage is an incident and private life ...
... critic! The point, dear reader, and it is so obvious that I am ashamed to make it is that your average film-actor and film-actress is not a Henry Irving or an Ellen Terry. Or anything remotely approaching them, for then of course there would be no difficulty ...
... apartment because of six other women who telephone. And lastly there is that heart rending picture of Lily Wynton, the great actress, whose famous dark, liquid eyes are seen in the daylight to be set in little hammocks of folded flesh. Poor little disillusioned ...
... respond to the sort of realism which so well suits a modern thriller. But the evening has one delightful surprise. A new actress, Miss Eileen Herlie, speaks Andromache's two brief scenes with a splendour of indignation and grief that springs golden hopes ...
... nicely chosen for the slim, demure Princess her mother, the then Duchess of Kent, brings us that austerely magnificent s actress, Marda Vanne. Miss Vanne (whose c memorable performances were as the mis- z sionary's wife in Somerset Maugham's Rain S and ...
... the national character, he was blowing characteristically hot and cold. What actor today would tolerate such obloquy; what actress merit such praise? The question is rhetorical the answer might be invidious. Yet, if the plaudits that greeted Mr. Gielgud ...
... inadequacy as a lover and as an artist and the self-contempt he feels for his dependence on his mother, the showy and famous actress who is vulgar in her vanity and wholly incapable of under standing the suffering of others. We are sorry for this young man ...
... without very much expense. But nothing has been done except the presentation of an address to the King by the actors and actresses of England. T t consists of a volume of 167 leaves of the finest artist's vellum and on each sheet a water-colour border ...
... There follows something in Whymper's account Continued on xxiv) JUNE KNIGHT IN BREAK THE NEWS The beautiful American film actress will be seen in her latest film. Break the News, at the Leicester Square Theatre on May 20. She co-stars with Maurice Chevalier ...
... Iwo ambitious girls, who leave their provincial home to, seek fame and fortune in New York, Ruth as a writer, Eileen as an actress. Ruth, it is true, can write and has her typewriter; Eileen thinks she can act, and has her person ality. Otherwise their ...
... decorative fencing with false compliments, make greater or less demands on an actress than one that is more actively independent? Miss Nora Swinburne is too good an actress to give the answer away. Mr. Keneth Kent, too, has played Napoleon too often and ...