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...fortune. Although he has had considerable experience on the concert stage, Mr. MacFarlane is comparatively new to the drama, his role of the "Laird" in Trilby, seen here last fall, being his first venture in that line. As yet he has attained no great degree of merit as an actor, but his personality is so pleasing that one is inclined to overlook his histrionic short-comings...
...exotic thing, carried on behind a row of footlights, but as a perfectly natural expression of the people themselves, handed over to experts. Acting does not mean pretending to be something else; it means interpreting something you are, or have assimilated through the medium of your personality. An actor playing his part is doing no more than a judge who interprets justice...
...Barker spoke of the difference between a good and a bad audience, not measured by numbers, but by the bond of sympathy which may or may not exist between the audience and the actor. "An audience," he said, "can do 25 per cent. of the work, and get a 50 per cent better performance by doing...
Author, producer, trainer, translator of foreign plays, an actor himself, Mr. Barker is perhaps better fitted than anyone connected with the theatre today to speak on the subject chosen for his lecture tomorrow evening...
Henry Dornton is an English actor and stage director of many years' experience, coming from an old theatrical family that dates as far back as 1721. His mother was Louisa Robertson, sister of T. H. Robertson, author of the famous "Caste Comedies," sister too of Madge Robertson (Mrs. Kendal). His father was Charles Dornton for many years lessee of the historic Theatre Royal, Birmingham, England...