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...excellent, his French admirable. When he recently returned to the Metropolitan after a long illness (TIME, Mar. 16) the musicians found a pause in the score, laid down their instruments, stood applauding with the audience. A brilliant singer whose voice is still exquisite, an accomplished actor, he is beloved by his fellow singers and worshiped by the bravo-yelling denizens of the Metropolitan's crow's nest...
...Dramatic Club's offer comes as the most recent of a series of actions designed to promote interest in the drama at Harvard. The first offer made was that of Wallace Eddinger of a two year dramatic scholarship for the most promising actor in Harvard. Close upon this followed the CRIMSON'S offer of a $25 prize for the best dramatic criticism of the current play at the Copley, and shortly, after came the formation of the Theatregoers Club...
Billy B. Van is the salvation of "The Passing Show of 1924", now playing at the Shubert Theatre. He is the only one of all the funny boys in the show who is at once an actor and comedian. He is the real thing, and the audience knows it. They wait patiently through many a skit, song, or splurge, all for the sake of laughing...
...lesser way real dramatic art is curtailed by the silly audience, which goes to laugh and giggle through a tragedy. When earnest efforts meet with gales of laughter, and actor's soul curls up inside him. He learns to speak his lines; not live them. Real beauty on the stage cannot exist without deep, silent appreciation in the audience, which reaches across the foot-lights to the players, helping them on. A rustling, noisy audience, whispering, coming in late, going out early, is a purely American creation and hardly one to boast of. In Europe the drama meets with greater...
Discussing Wallace Eddinger's offer of a dramatic scholarship for the most promising actor in the University, Mr. Clive termed it one of the greatest things that had happened to the drama...