Word: actorly
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...seems that success in acting the part is largely accidental. An actor stalks up and down the stage, and the audience is enthralled. Or he steps gracefully, chides his mother considerately, and soothes his Ophelia, and what can the easy-going audience do--save applaud. Success appears a tyrant, and arbitrary both as concerns actors and audiences...
Beyond this tantalizing obscurity, acting and production are complete and harmonious. Mr. Bennett is sincere, thoughtful, and full of delightful whimsy. It is unfortunate that an extravagant press-agent should herald him on the program as "America's most distinguished actor", though he does his best to earn the title, and his charming curtain-speech won him many Boston hearts. Two or three of the many semi-minor parts, newly filled since the company left New York, are distressing; the rest fit cleanly into the well-planned pattern of the production...
...Chinese have a unique social system, based on an aristocracy of learning. There are four so called 'honorable' classes, namely: Scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants. Notice that in this system there is no place for the soldier. He is classed with the barber, the actor, the butcher, and the hangman as a necessary evil. Is it not possible that the world might get the germ of an idea from this system which would materially advance international relations? It may leave China without much strength as strength is now reckoned, but I am confident that in the end she will emerge...
...time, whose works are now very scarce, Klyomitsu and Toyonobu, the most brilliant of the designers of the later part of the Primitive Period, will be shown, and also prints by Harunobu and Shunsho, who took advantage of the processes developed by Harunobu to produce his great actor prints...
...dignity and dominance which Mr. Mantell often created were dispelled by a straining for laughs and comic effects, obtained by broad and undignified comic by-play, almost as soon as they were gained. "That inherent majesty of soul, that simplicity of demeanour, and that overwhelming power" which the actor and phrase-loving William Winter once found in Mr. Mantell's Richelieu were grievously lacking on Monday night. In place of these praiseworthy qualities one found a lack of finesse, a lack of dignity, and a rough sketchiness of character delineation which were disconcerting. In addition Mr. Mantell displayed a pronounced...