Word: actress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ball about three times while Yale don't touch down the ball at all. Not that I ain't got some good friends at Yale too. I know a lot of high toned people because only yesterday I took a picture of Ethel Baltimore who is a very classy actress and is now playing on Broadway in a new show which it is called "Delicatessen." You should see her in the sad parts where she cries so that you would think that the show was losing money instead of going...
...still more removed Russia of 1915; faculty salaries and freshman short-comings do not crowd out plays and "the other man's wife" and a charming song. The cartoonist has done his best--and worst--with the ineffable stipend of the poor harmless drudge. And a clever actress gets her picture in the paper...
From 1797 on, De Wilde devoted himself almost wholly to portraits of actors in character, and, as the National Dictionary of Biography says: "Throughout a long life-time there was hardly an actor or actress whom he did not draw in their principal characters, thereby forming a storehouse of theatrical biography. Charles Mathews, Jr., described De Wilde towards the close of his life as constantly to be found at the corner of Drury Lane Theatre, a portfolio under his arm, and as having a happy knack of invariably hitting on a likeness...
Miss Florence Shirley, the saving grace of "Bunker Bean," had little opportunity of showing her abilities as an actress in the part of Tanya, the tailor's daughter. Her part of the quiet, trusting, believing German girl she played well. Miss Kingsley as Corinne Stanlaw, the heiress, and Robert Fisher, delightfully foreign as Dr. Sonntag, the scholar, are also worthy of mention...
...more than a little of the poignant, the near-tragic, Marie Gilmore, a leading lady, is in love with Billy Kinsman, the butterfly son of a self-made millionaire who of late has been "doing society" with his pompous wife. It becomes the duty of the actress to show this family their foibles, to tear the masks from their faces, to discover them unto themselves as genuinely human beings. This task takes her through the better part of four acts, sees her at one point a comedy character, at another serious. The part of Marie is the pivotal part...