Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will Portray Story of Dickens' Writings...
...exhibition will attempt to portray the story of Dickens' writing and acting from his first play "Strange Gentleman!", which was produced at the St. James Theatre in London in 1836, until he died while in the middle of his novel. "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." Many of the posters are wood-cuts while others are printed in much the same fashion as those of today. Several of the posters attempt to give the story of the play by means of a series of pictures giving scenes from the play. Inasmuch as nearly all of Dickens' novels were dramatized...
...girls are added to the plot. The first, a harlot who rejected Hassan, came to him with power and fled when he fell, is an easy part that almost any pretty actress could portray. Accordingly the producers gave it to their most expensive player, Mary Nash. She did what she could with it. The other girl, for whom the King of the Beggars wove his plot, was entrusted wisely to Violet Kemble Cooper, who made it easily the most important role of the play. Randal Ayrton, from London, played Hassan, conventionally, correctly, completely missing the weakness, the beauty, the humanity...
...mail. Subsequent inquiry disclosed that a new stamp, in denominations of 8, 16 and 24?, was issued for this service on June 15. Eight-cent stamps are green and show a propeller; 16? stamps are blue and carry a pilot's brevet; 24? stamps are red an portray an airplane...
...fact, the whole production, coming after Miss Taylor's sunny California radiance, seems bathed in a quiet, phosphorescent glow. Miss Keener, in endeavoring to portray the little Irish-American girl who-flung into the center of a snobbish English household-shows up its caddishness and wins a handsome Cholly-boy for herself, handles her part with kid gloves...