Word: tolerating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...role with all the vivacity of a young and eager actress and does not hesitate to make use of the broad clowning and reversible inflections that were considered high technique in 1911. Her performance is glowingly amusing. In addition there is a brilliant bit of character acting by Sidney Toler as a tombstone salesman...
...pets the cat and helps along the matrimony. When Broadway's last niece and nephew have chortled with childish glee over Tomany, it will probably be seized upon by all the stock companies throughout the land. Juvenile William Janney, Ingenue Peg Entwistle, Character Actors Lloyd Neal and Sidney Toler do well...
...marry her because her parents want me to," cries Tommy. For three acts the authors of "Tommy" ring the changes on this theme, in a new home comedy at the Park, and but for the acting of Peg Entwistle, erstwhile Repertory prodigy, and Sidney Toler as her Uncle Dave, and perhaps Tommy-When-Drunk, as played by William Janney, the play would be as ineffectual as it sounds, and as popular...
...most brilliant American dramatists have ceased writing plays at an even earlier age than 50, there seems a good lesson in the activities of Pirandello. Why shouldn't a man keep his creative vitality until he reaches that period in which ihe can look at life with amused toler- ance, in which he is capable of interpreting life as a gay, mad, foolish show through which he has passed? Surely the wisest satire must be written by the old. The young can puncture bubbles; but only the man who has lived widely can destroy mountains...
...Exile. An historical play of the French Revolution, by Sydney Toler, starring Eleanor Painter and Jose Ruben, in which most of the devices and dodges of court drama are given a Spring airing...