Word: actorly
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...idol in Buda-Pesth. He also was a devil with the ladies, some of whom did not care for his lustful attentions. One of these was Karola Lovasdy (Judith Anderson), wife of a onetime diplomat (Henry Stephenson) who owned the apartment in which the unwholesome Balkanyi lived. When the actor is discovered dead there is evidence that dark-eyed Actress Anderson is the guilty party. Her apoplectic husband comes to think so, too. Finally he and the rest of the cast are sure of it when she hysterically confesses to have been the dead man's mistress and murderess...
...with servant side. The villainous, sleek chauffeur, Ricci, the apex of the triangle completed by Dora, and Gustave, whose continental manners embroll the kitchen in a melee with the carving set, which ruins the lobster aspic, the piece de resistance of the dinner. There is the dissipated motion picture actor, living on dreams of the past, played in a heroic manner by Comway Tearle; there is the dissipated motion picture actor, living on dreams of the past played in a heroic manner by Conway Tearle; there is Paula Jordan, beautiful daughter, smitten by an unfortunate love for the star...
...Dramatic Club had Philip Merivale, famous actor, for its guest several weeks ago at a dinner in Lowell House. It hopes to sponsor several other talks before its next production, "Circumstantial Evidence...
...send felicitations. The old folks coo and hold hands. Whereupon appears Louise Morel (Fay Bainter), the playwright's secretary in his earlier days. Off go the wigs and greasepainted wrinkles as Mile Morel begins to tell her story of how Mme Catalan once had a weak moment with an actor and M. Morel once betrayed his wife with his amanuensis. But when the fade-back has concluded and the young people have become old people again, the Catalans agree to apply the statute of limitations to their respective follies, continue to dodder their happy way along to the grave. Manhattan...
There are courses at Harvard treating of the actor's art as well as of the literary history of the drama, but there is no presentation of the important visual side of this subject, nor any attempt at the correlation of the various sides in a course in the theory of play writing...