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...Then, if this be so," said the actor piously, "God bless 'the little church around the corner...
...cold day just before Christmas in 1870, two actors went to Rev. William Tufnell Sabine, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atonement at Madison Avenue & 28th Street in Manhattan. One of them (though Mr. Sabine did not recognize him) was the great Joseph Jefferson, who had been playing Rip Van Winkle since 1859 in various versions. He explained that his old friend George Holland had died; this was Mr. Holland's son Edward; they wished to arrange for the funeral. Then he added that Mr. Holland had been a well-known oldtime actor. Mr. Sabine...
Supplementary material on the programme is "The Girl Habit" with Charlie Ruggles. It is incomprehensible why an actor who has made whatever reputation he has as an inebriate should, when the time comes to be featured, play without the liquid illusion. "The Girl Habit", despite spasmodic excellences of pantomime, proves that Ruggles is not sufficiently endowed to carry a picture single-handed...
...Actor Laughton is a roly pudding of a man. He also has a very rare genius for acting. Actor Laughton not only speaks his lines, he thinks them. They can be seen in his puffy eyes before they come from his lips...
Born 32 years ago, son of a provincial hotelkeeper at Scarborough, England, Actor Laughton started miming soon after leaving Stonyhurst College. The last five years have seen his rise to prominence on the British stage in Alibi, Beauty and. incongruously, as the Italo-Chicagoan gang leader in Edgar Wallace's On The Spot. He created the role of Mr. Marble...