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...theatres. Storms and shots and beaten drums fill in the open spaces when an Englishman's soul is not departing with appropriate agonies. James Rennie and Ruth Shepley draw salaries for interpreting these noisy doings. Probably the best performance is that of the witch doctor, Francis Corbie, a Negro actor...
Salome of the Tenements. The odd contrast of a famed actor and an unknown player losing and failing respectively is the major item in this film's interest. The star is Godfrey Tearle (brother of Conway Tearle), an English actor of the first rank. In pictures, he flattens out and his personality fades. Opposite him is one Jetta Goudal. In her first leading part, she quite steals the strength of the picture. She is small and seems to resemble a combination of Marilyn Miller and Mary Hay. The picture plays about on the East Side (Manhattan) amid the slums...
More than half a century ago, a Manhattan rector refused to perform in his church Lie burial service of an actor who had been greatly loved by his fellow stage-folk. He suggested, however, that there was a little church around the corner which might...
...that time, Joseph Jefferson was the most famous actor on Broadway. Said he: "God bless the Little Church Around the Corner." His remark became the sobriquet of the church and an English idiom...
...GUARDSMAN. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne discuss the possibility of a great actor's playing so supremely as to deceive his own wife and thereupon seduce...