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...reputation in musical comedy and operetta in such productions as "Buddies," "No Nanette," "The Chocolate Soldier," more recently in "Merry Widow," is confronted with the somewhat difficult of portraying the unsuccessful small time trooper and of enunciating, as convincingly as possible, the trite old them that no real actor can ever leave theatre. Considering the difficulties, portrayal of your true "down and outer is well done. He has achieved this beaten, despairing air which is typical of the breed. In addition, he gives impression of quiet power and earnestness which enable him to across a hard luck story...
Died. Harry Cameron Clemens, 66, actor, nephew of the late Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain); of heart disease; in Providence...
Subsequent investigation yields nothing to Inspector Thumm and Attorney Bruno. In despair they turn to Drury Lane, a retired actor who had helped them on a criminal case before. Actor Lane is an esthetic Sherlock Holmes who quotes Shakespeare, names his servants after Shakespearean characters, lives in an Elizabethan village of his own creation, takes sunbaths in a breechcloth on an Elizabethan tower. He soon figures out who must have committed the murder, but he has a long way to go to get enough evidence for a legal conviction. Two more murders, an attempted suicide, a backtrack to a murder...
...about a sow named, after his grandmother, Amelia. This attracted his family's attention, but it was not until after he met up with Aldous Huxley, Robert Graves. Richard Hughes and Edmund Blunden at Oxford that his literary talent became widely recognized. A sometime theatrical cartoonist, ballad singer, actor, broadcaster, teacher, he now devotes all his time to writing. Other books: Dewer Rides, The Jealous Ghost, The English Captain, The Garden...
...reviewer first approached, Mr. Nagel said in one breath, "My pet aversions are sweetened cornbread and night clubs, now what do you want to know?" The actor gave a talk on Tuesday on censorship, an address which came in for a share of criticism during the interview. "If censors are sincere in their desire to eradicate filth." Nagel remarked, "they will direct their efforts to all sources of filth. The censors now spend most of their time getting their names in the papers by either attacking the movies or the stage. This produces an effect upon the public which...