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...William Gillette, actor ... Litt.D...
Paul Robeson, honored Negro actor in London last week gave his first performances of Othello. Audiences approved his making the character an Ethiopian and the play a Negro tragedy. Peggy Ashcroft, his white "Desdemona," he fondled and kissed. But if and where he takes the play to the U. S. he will cut that "business." Anticipated he: "The audience might get rough, in fact might become very, dangerous...
...Tavern. The year 1922 will be remembered by many for the long skirts of its debutantes and the catch-phrase of its coxcombs: "What's all the shooting for?" Last week, a season after the reappearance of long skirts, the source of the byword recurred?a revival of Actor-Producer George Michael Cohan's The Tavern...
...this vagabond could have been a Wandering Jew, Villon, Rabelais, Shelley, Puck. There is probably no one in America who knows better than he what is effective in the theatre. He is aware . . . just how audiences react to certain things that may be made to happen." Subsequent things that Actor Cohan made to happen were received with robust laughter when the audience was sure of itself, with nervous twittering when...
...scene is laid in an inn, during an ear-splitting thunderstorm, to which a prattling, sleepy-eyed sage (Actor Cohan) comes for shelter. Subsequent activities, which include robbery, violent quarreling, gunfire, are sometimes burlesqued, sometimes played "straight," never consistently acted. Once Actor Cohan comes down to the footlights and soliloquizes to the effect that everyone in the world is an actor, that he alone is a spectator, that some day he will meet the Great Author. Spectators take this to be in dead earnest, applaud loudly. Sole orthodox comic part is played by Joseph Allen in the role he created...