... contempor- ary significance you will have a pleasant evening. Miss Moira luster, as the actress wife in the case, plays her, no doubt deliberately, as a very grand actress indeed. She has little to act, but she gives the impression of acting all the time. ...

... go on saying it. A third-rate actress seen in the flesh remains in my mind longer than the most glittering figure of the films. Janet Achurch was not a Bern hardt, a Duse, nor an Ellen Terry. She was a hard-working actress of the Ibsen school who would ...

... ask what all this gush has to do with Gish. The answer is nothing what ever, except that mention of this charming little actress started the subject of loyalty. What is this mania possessed by the film industry for presenting well-known plays under another ...

... has lately undergone a conversion which her mind hardly yet understands. She has obviously reached a point of rest, but the actress leaves us in no doubt that this point has been reached only after tortures of the soul and that beneath her present serenity ...

... discussed, not only by these three, but by another trio representing the more physical aspects of the theatre the count, an actress and an impresario. It is a civilized opera taking place in Strauss's favourite, improbably 18th-century France. Dr. Gunther ...

... when she goes for a ride on a white horse there is nothing to be seen except the actress's nails and the animal's hoofs. I do not think that Carole is a very good actress. She is, in my view, just a goodish looker who is on hand, and who pretends to simulate ...

... the prettiest flower in her basket, imagines that she is enjoying love in a garret with the penniless, cast-off son of an actress as famous as Bernhardt. How absurd (yet how sad) her romantic illusion! Let the rather tiresomely intense young husband be ...

... behaviour may be, but there is no denying her a heart. If this laughter is to work in us the part must obviously be played by an actress with a natural warmth which will come meltingly through her comic capers. But the adorable Miss Lillie the Miss Lillie of ...

... indicating exactly what happens in the performance. How Nice 1 TjMrst Actress: Why, haven't you heard, dear, I'm engaged for one of the principal parts in Beauty and the Beast Second Actress How nice And who plays Beauty? Romantic Comedy. HThe Scarlet Pimpernel ...

... about Margaret Lockwood. Is she a well-known actress? I hardly think so, because in that case I must certainly have seen her. On the other hand, it is quite possible that she may be a well-known film actress. For here I must again plead guilty to a kind ...

... something less than nothingness. An old and valued actress will have after a career of say forty years say ten years of hankering after the footlights and the applause. A young and over-valued film-actress has anything up to fifty years of the rubbish heap ...

... sentence, which for me pretty well sums up the whole lunatic but immensely entertaining business of the Legend of the Great Actress of any period, opens the last chapter of Joanna Richardson's lively, luscious biography, Sarah Bernhardt. The Divine Sarah ...