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Married. Robert Keith, actor, author of The Tightwad (TIME, April 25); to Peg Entwistle, ingenue actress; at Port Chester, N. Y., after a four-day courtship...
...dramatist should write his comedies with more wit and originality than Mr. Luria, if he hopes to perpetrate a graceful hoax. The Comic fumbles with a situation in which an actor convinces a playwright that a certain scene needs rewriting, by maneuvering the playwright into a nervous predicament with the leading lady. The Manhattan audience was more befuddled than convinced-despite the able performance of Actress Patricia Collinge...
...Conn.) audience advised Producer John Golden to take this play to Manhattan. It concerns a lisping tattletale in trousers, who so irks a houseful of guests that the Chief of Police himself yields to an itch to plug the stream of slander with a bullet. Unfortunately the shot misses. Actor Lynne Overman burlesqued his role of wag-tongue -which is about all that could be done with...
...most famed U. S. female impersonator, Actor Julian Eltinge, whose testimonials the best corset-makers craved, is at present in retirement, in Florida...
...Bunker, who, in his career as an actor, has always played in farcical roles, went on to compare amateur and professional acting. In recalling the time when he played in the first Harvard Dramatic Club presentation "The Land of Promise," in which he took the part of a starving Russian, he said: "As I look back at that time when I was still a Freshman, I realize that my natural tendency was to overact, to keep moving constantly, thus detracting from my own effectiveness as well as that of others. This overacting, as compared with the repressed playing which...