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...appearance, in his diction, in his facial expressions--Bon-Aim first and last, looks, acts, and is the Slav; he seems to have stepped from a play of lsben or a novel of Tolstoi or Checkhov. To appear at his best he needed a play in which the environment would not be unnatural to him; In Samson and Delilah he found such a play, from curtain rise to curtain fall it is imbued with the spirit of the Slav. In its frequent, terribly effective appeals to the stage; in its lack of sentiment and its slow, careful development...
...Warfield gives to Peter Grimm a characterization which is nearly unique among this season's impersonations in its strength and care of detail,--opera glasses can detect no flaws of facial expression. Peter Grimm lives before the audience. Mr. Warfield's supporting cast is a good one, and the problems of lighting and scenery, obviously so vital to the success of a supernatural effect, are adequately solved and well-managed...
Miss Rambeau, as "Ann Regan," is given much opportunity to display her emotional powers, and her acting is excellent throughout, although possibly a trifle over-done in the "big scene." She is very human in her gestures and facial expressions in particular. Mr. Baker gave a consistently good interpretation of the husband, and Mr. Minturn was a self-possessed, smiling villain. Miss Beatrice Allen was a shivery, clinging type of daughter-heroine, while Mr. Slaytor did well as the landlord. One of the best pieces of acting in the entire show was done by Mr. Vivian as Ferguson, the valet...
...productions. Perhaps Lyonel Watts as "Tony" does not quite reach the others in point of perfection. This discrepancy may, however, be due to his short and relatively unimportant part. Viola Roach, as Mrs. Frampton, gives us a very vivid and affecting picture of a human soul in agony. Her facial expressions as well as her gestures are convincing and true. She is the center of attraction at all times. E. E. Clive illustrates, in the role of Mr. Frampton, a fine, genial gentleman whose honor seems to have been smirched. Others, whose work is especially noteworthy, are Diana Storm, with...
Nothing could better disprove the assertion that drama is essentially literature than does the long pantomime so effectively staged by Reinhardt and so vividly acted by his German performers with skilful use of the unfamiliar medium of gesture and facial expression...