Word: monologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular part, that of an aged Negro, in a melodrama at the old Philadelphia Museum (1877). He has since appeared in 325 plays, directing 33 of them. He was leading man for Mme. Modjeska (see p. 44), once supported Edwin Booth. His daughter, Cornelia Otis Skinner, is a famed monologist. One of Actor Skinner's chief rivals in the impersonation of old men is his friend George Arliss (see p. 69). Famed Skinner roles: Richelieu, The Harvester, The Honor of the Family, Kismet...
...monologue recital will be given at John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Tuesday evening, October 15, at 8.15 o'clock. The artist of the evening, Miss Helen Howe, daughter of M. A. DeWolfe Howe '87, famous editor and biographer, is a well-known original monologist and gives promise of a unique entertainment...
Muriel Draper was born in New England, bred in Italy and France. She married the late Paul Draper, singer of songs, brother of Monologist Ruth Draper; and for six years they entertained in Vienna, in Florence, in London. Divorced before Paul died, Muriel Draper now works as interior decorator...
...Among them were: Ferenc Molnar (play-wright), Dario Rappaport (Manhattan portraitist), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (play wright), Richard Strauss (composer), Ruth Draper (monologist), Ina Claire (actress), Mr. Walter Rosen, James Speyer (U. S. financiers...
...Nugent, before entering Ohio State, where he was active in college journalism as well as dramatics, had already appeared on the professional stage. The son of actor parents, he was, while still a child, making regular appearances as "the boy monologist". Together with his father, J. C. Nugent, he wrote "The Poor Nut", which is a play of his college and the characters are close imitations of the students and faculty there...