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...difficult to stay in his part as in his costume, but the song was one of the hits of the show. B. Moore '08 as the anarchist, marred what was otherwise a clever burlesque of the villain of melodrama by continual overemphasis. He is potentially the best actor in the cast, but fails to "arrive" on account of such faults as a noisy and meaningless spatting of his hands and a reluctance to let go of his consonants. F. M. Gunther '07 proved himself worthy of the better acting chance furnished in the burlesque, "The Goirl of the Golden Pest...
...proper and desirable function of a professional coach does not include the personal conduct and direction of a game from the side lines or the bench. Such a practice amounts to the same thing as prompting an actor from behind the scenes. After a man has been taught how to play the game, he should be allowed to play it; and the men on a team should oppose the idea of having their plays in a game directed by a paid coach as they would scorn the idea of having a tutor stand behind them to tell them what...
Before an audience which completely filled the Living Room of the Union, Mr. H. B. Irving delivered an address last evening on "The Art and Status of the Actor...
There are always occurring sporadic outbreaks against the actor and his art, said Mr. Irving, not unlike the old-fashioned Puritanism, which has been happily termed a "form of barbarism." Such attacks, it is easy to see, result more from the peculiarity of the art itself than from any fundamental reason. The actor does not heed them. That he is merely an exponent of mimicry, requiring no special training, is a monstrous fallacy. The true actor's task is rather to reproduce man in idealized form. This is as imperative to art in drama...
...useless to refute the idea that the actor's calling offers more temptations to loafers than any other profession. But it is equally fallacious to think that the actor's life is one sequence of success. There exists in this art the same discouragement known to all professions. The real cause of all the unpleasant publicity concerning the actor and his private life lies not so much in what he may or may not have done but in the insatiable desire of journalism to cater to the public taste. The delusion which exists in many minds that the actors...