Actorviews (1923)

Record Details:

Title:
Actorviews
Date:
1923
Publisher:
Chicago : Covici-McGee, Co.
Volume:
Actorviews
Leaf #:
000289
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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The Self-Doubting Pauline Lord HAD to work hard,” said Miss Pauline Lord. “Look at the face I had to overcome !” I was looking. Bright brown eyes I saw under thick masses of bright brown hair; bright teeth in a full moDiie mouui ; no positive line of beauty anywhere, but everywhere brightness. It was a face that victoriously paid the price of intelligence. “Great beauty,” I said eloquently, “is a persuasive letter of introduction to the Stage, but a handicap to anything less than great acting. Maxine Elliott would have been a great comedienne if she hadn’t been a greater beauty; for she has the intelligence. Now, look at Mrs. Fiske !” “So many people seem to think she’s the only actress I’ve ever looked at!” Miss Lord rejoined. “It started years ago when a critic on the Sacramento Bee said I reminded him of Mrs. Fiske. And I’d never seen Mrs. Fiskey — as I innocently believed her name was pronounced. I never saw her till she played George Sand. But I suppose the comparison comes from our both being rather staccato, and smallish, and unbeautiful.” “You both have in your acting the priceless quality of honesty,” I said ; and went on to tell Miss Lord how in my youth I had been pained by what seemed to me to be the dishonest acting of the spotlit Richard