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Cologne papers' praise of Mr. & Mrs. Ford redoubled on discovery that they had done a "good deed" before leaving Oberammergau. Calling upon disappointed Anton Lang, replaced this year by another actor in the role of Christus, they told him to go and see the Ford representative in Munich. Whichever type of car Anton Lang picks out will become his free...
...Actor Wayne, a newcomer, looks a little like Charles Farrell and a little like Gary Cooper. He was fresh and earnest, two admirable qualities which rarely make up for obvious unfamiliarity with the acting trade, particularly in talking pictures. Actress Churchill was better. Actor Tully Marshall was best of all and Swedish El Brendel was funniest...
...Players at the Abbey theatre. In 1911 he made his U. S. debut in The Rising of the Moon. He later appeared in The Playboy of the Western World. At the premiere a large body of truculent, transplanted Hibernians rioted in the theatre, tossed overripe fruit & vegetables at the actors because the play presented "an Irish girl in the situation of remaining all night with a man not her husband." Mr. Sinclair has since revisited the U. S. six times. His fifth visit was in The Merry Wives of Gotham, in which, to his displeasure, he was to take...
...called to the bar, but disliked it; took to traveling and writing instead. So great is the fame of his Forsyte Saga that last spring a telephone exchange in Hacken sack, N. J. was named Galsworthy. He has a prejudice against cinematization, but his famed Old English (with Actor George Arliss) at last went Hollywood. Baldish, white-haired, with lined, long face, honest eyes, he looks his type: the mental and moral bulldog. He has written more than 50 novels, books of essays, plays. Some of them: The Man of Property, The Patrician, The Dark Flower, To Let, The White...
Bashan, "a short-haired setter" with a broad hint of Airedale, is a dog of engaging but not heroic character. A great actor, he hates to be hurt. "If he happened to have scratched his belly a little in vaulting over the fence, or sprained his foot, I have been treated to an antique hero's chorus, a three-legged limping approach, an uncontrollable wailing and self-lamentation." Bashan pretends to be a mighty hunter before his lord, actually never kills any thing but field mice, though he thinks him self a ravening threat to rabbits. He once caught...