Actorviews (1923)

Page scan 000143 from Actorviews

Record Details:

Title:
Actorviews
Date:
1923
Publisher:
Chicago : Covici-McGee, Co.
Volume:
Actorviews
Leaf #:
000143
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:
May 02, 2024
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Louis Wolheim, Ph.D II ■ WENT up in the Blackstone elevator wondering what sort of man would be Louis Wolheim, who acts Yank the Stoker so thunderingly well in O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape.” All I knew about ^ him — and I knew that but vaguely — was that he had taught the higher mathematics in a university and that this was the first part to get him talked about as an acting man. “Once a college professor, always a college professor,” I said to myself, and prepared to meet a large, muscular scholar who would no doubt feed me afternoon tea and talk literature beyond my means. I think I expected to find an athletic Doctor Johnson, an unsedentary Gilbert K. Chesterton. And I had no doubt he would be wearing a morning coat. I have yet to discover what kind of coat Mr. Wolheim does wear. He opened the door to me in his shirt — white rough stuff with a black tie hanging from a low soft collar. “What a neck!” I was noting when his hand met mine. Then it was, “What a paw!” I have seen taller men and thicker, but he seemed to be the most giantlike I’d ever encountered this side of the ring or the mat. Everything about him is big, even his voice. His nose is the bigger for being flattened at the bridge — I know not whether by God or man. It is this irregularity of the nose that completes the suggestion of ancient sculpture — say Michael