... firmly as a feminine, Italian counterpart of the late great Raimu. She is unquestionably my choice as the actress of the year. Three other actresses' performances demand mention even in the same breath as Magnani's: Olivia de Havilland's almost unbear ably ...

... that two separate End managements had to a desperate expedient. Were they not pitting the drawing power of popular actresses against the all too conspicuous lack of drawing power in the plays chosen for them? 1 can think of no other defence for The ...

... Can this be the Margaret Rawlings who ha> been hailed as the great emotional actress ol the future? Can this be the Nora Swinburne whose wit and charm have made her an actress-manageress? Can this be the Ursula Jeans whose delicious art we have^so often ...

... intention which ought to disarm criticism, but which unhappy provokes it. The piece sets out to show that the nouvelle vague actress the fashionable Edwardian leading lady, and indeed the whole be of theatre folk through the centuries, are sisters ...

... partisan leader he played so finely; i opposite him his wife, Pamela Allan, a powerful television actress from St. Joan to serials. Two more young actresses in Tuesday's eighteenth-century comedy, The Wonder, by 1 Mrs. Centlivre, are encouragingly described ...

... objected to us poor scribes that we cannot differentiate between the part and the actress, that we should not recognise a great actress in a poor part, or know a poor actress in a great part. Let me say at once that La Bennett was not handi capped by her ...

... from Gaylord, the playwright, who tries so hard to be inspired to higher things by the lady who attracts him from Linda, his actress-wife, who waits for him to come down to earth and home to roost with all the rather irritating wisdom of What Every Woman ...

... than pro ficient actress is enchanting throughout and she too possesses the quality of being hurt. Here again I must insist upon the question of looks which are the film-actress's passport to the screen and prevent the film- actress from doing any acting ...

... vanished, and each man as he resumed his seat teit that he had seen one of the great actresses of all time. The other evening I met in a theatre one of the great actresses of the present time who in the most gracious manner imaginable said Hello, darling ...

... for small vouchsafings, but I could really wish for the actress's own sake that she would take an airing out of the waif-and-stray department. Otherwise we shall begin to believe that this actress's gamut consists of Alpha, Beta. Gemma, and stops there ...

... Martine hailed the giver as a star or even attributed to her any phenomenal quality as an actress. The part of the French peasant-girl is one in which no actress, not even a beginner, endowed with the quality of simplicity and the right shape of nose, ...

... lection of at most some dozen films from the silent days, though these are fading. It is odd, by the way, that the film- actress whom I least remember is la Garbo. I seem to see her -drooping by a lace window curtain and looking strangely like Bernhardt ...