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...advice to the college actor going on the professional stage is the same as I would give to any actor," says Richard B. Harrison, "de Lawd" of "The Green Pastures." "Play your part well. You have a debt to your audience. If you wish of permanent popularity, give the best in you. Rehearse your lines continually and you will never get state. Every show should be a perfect show and every night should be a first night. The Bachelor of Arts will find his degree no hindrance. Merit is the prime basis of ultimate success in the theatre...
...seven years he headed the dramatic department of the Agricultural and Technical College of Greensboro, North Carolina Summer School. Young men came from all over the South to take his course in acting. "I taught them anything from Mother Goose to Shakespeare" said the prominent actor. "They kept me busy morning to night. When I was willing they would cut their meals to keep on with the class. They were so eager to acquire knowledge and so sincere, that I really regretted leaving to take my part in "Green Pastures...
...played the muddled cinema director in Once In A Lifetime, Hugh O'Connell found steady employment in that cycle of dramas which began with Twin Beds and lasted through Getting Gertie's Garter and Up In Mabel's Room. Looking back on those days, it amuses Actor O'Connell to recall one trick of his that never failed to wring hysterical whoops from his audience: slowly pulling off his pants and flinging them at the chandelier. "After that I could just lay back and rest for about five minutes." Unlike the stork, it would appear that...
After the luncheon Harrison will talk in the Common Room on "The Lord at 68 Looks Back". He probably has the most remarkable entrance "cue" in all stage history,--"Gangway! Gangway! For the Lord God Jehovah!" This charming actor made his stage debut only two years ago, when Marc Connelly discovered him giving drama readings on Chautauqua programs and in churches. His talk will be open to interested members of the University. The Club hopes to have other prominent actors speak to it at luncheons during the coming year...
Died. John Craig, 64, actor and theatrical producer: of a heart attack: in Woodmere. L. I. Longtime leading man in the famed Augustin Daly Company at Daly's Theatre (Manhattan) he succeeded John Drew there, was later leading man for Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske...