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Twice the year before had Dr. Mudd talked briefly with John Wilkes Booth. But on the early morning of April 15, 1865 the actor-assassin, fresh from the Presidential box at Ford's Theatre, went to him in disguise under a false name, played his part so well that the country doctor never suspected his identity. Not until he heard the circumstances of Lincoln's death did Dr. Mudd grow suspicious, notify the authorities. For this service he was arrested as a conspirator. The whole land cried for quick, blind revenge. Booth might or might not have burned...
...elderly and distinguished British actor, eager to be knighted by his King, the business of impersonating heroes in his country's history is eminently sound. The only error made by George Arliss was in choosing two who performed on the same world stage about the same time. In The House of Rothschild (in which Wellington was impersonated by C. Aubrey Smith), Actor Arliss suggested to cinema audiences that Waterloo was a minor crisis in the affairs of a Jewish financier. In The Iron Duke, though Rothschild does not appear at all, Arliss' invariable mannerisms are so reminiscent that...
...less sombre than its predecessors. As Raskolnikoff, the impoverished student who murders a woman pawnbroker with the mad idea that money stolen from her will right a number of wrongs, Morgan Farley is about as wretched a figure as "Ma" Lester, the itinerant dustbin of Tobacco Road. Actor Farley rolls his eyes in terror, clenches his palms, bellows fearfully when his conscience begins to get the better of him. He evidently enjoys his part best of all in the final scene of confession in the park...
...most recent of the just-short-of-a-hit plays, which may build into a real smash before many weeks go by, is "Fly Away Home," produced by a new luminary amongst Broadway impressarios. Theron Bamberger, and starring that genial and expansive actor-director. Thomas Mitchell. This opus written by a couple of unknowns and housed the 48th Street Theatre since its opening ten days age, is probably the furriest and certainly the most wholesomely bawdy comedy of the year...
...other picture in which he has appeared, it would be safe to predict that he will be given his release from Hollywood and a one-way ticket to Hongkong, but the incredible youth apparently writes himself enough fan mail to make it appear that some persons consider him an actor, though God knows that we don't As usual, he strikes the unhappy medium between Professor Merriman and Baby Leroy...