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...Hull (Lulu Belle, Michael & Mary, The Ivory Door) has also given his theatrical reputation a boost. He is the dissolute Baron Von Gaigern whose increasing desperation at his failure to get funds, so that he may be aboard the dancer's train, is terminated by a revolver shot. Actor Hull says he likes the role better than any he has ever played since he started acting in 1911. He was born in Louisville, Ky., is 37 years old, went to Columbia University. He likes to farm, has a wife and two children, has written two plays (Congratulations, Manhattan...
...delicacy toward the subject which has made him most of his money. Only once, when he wanders out on the stage with a pine board, does he capitalize the utility which has made him famous. For the rest of the performance he comports himself like a good rube character actor. He takes the part of the grandfather of a family which has grown rich in Oklahoma oil and which has decided to go to Paris to see the sights. The attraction is adapted from Homer Croy's novel They Had to See Paris. The few moments of talent...
Chicagoans learned that Actor John Bryan who has been playing Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice at the Chicago Civic Theatre is a grandson of the late great William Jennings Bryan. Mode of discovery: he was visited by Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, whose son he is by her first marriage with William Homer Leavitt. John Bryan Leavitt was adopted by his grandfather, shortened his name...
...performances that can have no interest to an outside public, the Harvard Dramatic club will amuse itself and the friends of the players by reviving next month "Murray Hill," farce by the actor. Leslie Howard, produced at the Copley four or five seasons ago. The controlling element is in that happy stage of adolescence in which it fancies itself as so many "born actors." For many years past, it has been the distinctive and creditable custom of the club to act plays, often notable, that would other wise go unproduced in Boston and Cambridge. Now it prefers a shopworn farce...
...rate performance no matter how weak the show is-and he has performed in some frail attractions (Nobody's Money, Will Shakespeare, The Long Road). As Tom Banning, the philandering plutocrat in As Good As New, Mr. Kruger again demonstrates that it is hard to smother a good actor beneath a poor script. He is surprised in the apartment of his paramour. As a protest against her mother's impending divorce, his daughter threatens to run off and live with her current boy friend. This brings about a reconciliation, but at the final curtain Mr. Kruger is already...