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...preceeding articles I outlined the moral and material conditions, which led to the organization of the National Student Unions and of the C. I. E., as well as the history and development of these organizations. The subject of this article is to portray briefly the means by which we expected to fulfill the aim of the movement...
...course it is difficult in a week to learn completely a whimsical, unusual role. Styxian cynics are odd people, not too easy to portray. Nor are vicars on the longest of vicars' vacations. But Mr. Cannon realizes the Barriesque quality in the play with delightful results. William Duke, who wants a "keen" world, who likes his vicarship with lambent sincerity, who knows enough of life to misunderstand death--he is exact and competent, more so than can usually be expected in stock productions with red asbestos curtains and singleton orchestras. Miss Newcombe as the formidable Mrs. Clivedon-Banks; Miss Ediss...
Some weeks ago a plump little man entered the office of the U. S. Consul at Melbourne, Australia. Said he: "I am about to portray the role of Abraham Lincoln in Mr. Drinkwater's play of that name, which we are shortly to produce at the Melbourne Repertory Theatre. May I ask your advice as to the playing of the role...
...common. The Americans excel above all in character acting. The two great successes in London in the past year have been Lucille Laverne in Sunup," and John Barrymore in the Shakespeare plays. On the other hand, the success of an English actor seems to lie in his ability to portray the everyday man as he is. Cyril Maude, for instance is praised for his acting as Cyril Maude, and not for any particular part he takes...
...disheartening to discover that this psychology, which has proved true in the situations of undramatized life has been proved inapplicable to the emotions of the stage. The experience of the greatest actors has shown that really sincere emotion has failed to produce a convincing portrayal on the stage. After this evidence it appears logically necessary, in spite of the disappointment to those who believe in progress through the ages to revert to Diderot's paradoxical dogma that art is not nature but nature intensified and sublimated through the medium of the imagination. If our actors can not feel and portray...