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More versatile than they was their father, the late James Steele MacKaye (1842-94), painter, actor, playwright, producer, lecturer on esthetic philosophy, inventor. His Hazel Kirke (1879) ran longer than any U. S. play until Frank Bacon's Lightnin' (1918). He organized the first U. S. school of expression, originated "harmonic gymnastics," first used over-head lighting in theatres, invented folding theatre chairs...
...Tellegen, actor, fell asleep in an Atlantic City hotel while smoking, was rescued from the blazing bed, taken to a hospital suffering burns on his hips. Against his physician's advice he appeared in the première of a new play, Overture...
...Royal Box (Warner). A Frenchman's play about an English actor is now translated into German, so that famed Alexander Moissi can play it. But The Royal Box was not made in Germany but at Flatbush, N. Y. in the old Vitagraph studio where the late John Bunny and the Talmadge girls did their first work. It is Dumas' story of how Edmund Kean insulted the Prince of Wales from the stage because the Prince had made Kean's beloved sit in the Royal Box at a performance of Hamlet. Moissi rants in his best manner, letting...
...trill in his r's and an insufficient guttural. In Trieste he went to the only Italian Real-gymnasium where the pupils did not have to learn Latin and Greek. His ancestors had all been solid people, merchants, physicians, even one general, but he decided to be an actor. After a while in stock, he convinced Max Reinhardt that he was a good actor, thus adding to Reinhardt's reputation for "discovering" talent. He now lives near Vienna, has no definite nationality just as he has no permanent working-place. By race and by profession Moissi...
...Kibitzer (Paramount). A comedian named Harry Green does justice to the stout humor of this play which Actor Edward G. Robinson helped to write and starred in on the legitimate stage last year. Wall Street as seen from a corner store uptown by a market-wise seller of cigars is the background. Typical gag: Harry Green betting on a horse because the horse is going to retire from the track and has never won a race and it is his belief that every horse must win at least one race sometime. Best shot: interview between the cigar store owner...