Actorviews (1923)

Record Details:

Title:
Actorviews
Date:
1923
Publisher:
Chicago : Covici-McGee, Co.
Volume:
Actorviews
Leaf #:
000237
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Early Cinema
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 02, 2023
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Sothern and Marlowe 219 that my Shylock, say, is a mass of overacting, a medley of ill-remembered performances by others, a thing of shreds and patches. ‘It isn’t human,’ she will tell me. ‘Those lines are only coming out of you, an actor who has memorized them — they don’t come out of Shylock at all !’ ” “If,” broke in Miss Marlowe, “you exaggerated your performance as you do my comment I’d have a chance to talk mercilessly!” “How is he as a critic?” I asked her. Again the perfect husband perfectly answered : “I don’t, fortunately, have to assume such an attitude with my wife, whose perceptions are much more acute, whose imagination is much quicker. I’m the slow coach of our little family — and perhaps my wisest talent is knowing it.” “Hasn’t anything funny happened,” I asked Miss Marlowe, “since you’ve ‘come back’?” “I wish to heaven it had!” she deplored, adding, “But we’ve had no luck !”