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...villain for the second time. But Johann Zwink, who played the role several times, will continue to be missed whether Mayr is good or bad. For Zwink, a mellow, watery-eyed, lovable ancient, now exceedingly poor, is considered by many in the village to have been the best character actor that Oberammergau ever had. His was naturally a Judas face. Because his spirit was quite otherwise, he used to rehearse his part by walking about town, mumbling imprecations in his beard against the Christ until he almost believed them, became suicidally inclined. It has long been Johann Zwink...
...Dramatic Club Players, a cast of thirty, take their play very seriously. Their acting is always very much in earnest. Many of the parts are of the kind which call for what is curiously referred to at times as "emotional acting." As though all acting were not emotional. Young actors might learn by watching their elders and betters on the stage that the more genuine and deeply rooted the emotion on the part of the actor, the less obvious it will be to the audience that he is terribly aware of the fact that he is playing an "emotional part...
Died. Mrs. Guy Bates Post (Adele Ritchie), 55, oldtime (1893-1918) musical comedy actress (Floradora), onetime wife of Actor Guy Bates Post; and her friend and hostess, Mrs. Doris Murray Palmer, 32; in a double shooting; at Laguna Beach, Calif. Police thought Mrs. Post shot Mrs. Palmer after a quarrel, then spent two hours shopping, trying to calm herself before she returned to the scene of murder, shot herself...
...group of New York society people is not a new theme for a movie, not is it the best one that can be found these days, despite the seeming scarcity of good plots. If it isn't the plot that makes a movie good it is the actor--or actress. So it is with "The Divorcee", the current film at Loew's State...
...charge, all of them have been quite definite successes. Sir Arthur Pinero's "Dr. Harmer's Holiday" is the one which the eminent dramatist has refused to give permission to produce for the last ten years because of his belief that none of the producers could find the right actor for it. It is understood that he has at last released the play providing a certain prominent actor will play the title role. The play has recently been published in book form. One selection is A. A. Milne's "Success" which the Harvard Dramatic Club produced last Fall...