LESSON IN ACTING.
• _, he,£" lure °f "Orchard Walls" in London (Dr. Merton Hodge's adaptation of Ladislaus Fordor's Hungarian play), James Agate, dramatic critic of the Sunday Times," wrote of Irene Vanbrugh s superb performance:—. . . II- i y°unger generation of actresses think that they are ever going to approach within forty thousand miles of MJ SS Irene Vanbrugh they are mistaken. They have,not mastered the rudiments of any one of the eight or ten arts of acting of which Miss Vanbrugh is the complete mistress—wit, charm, poise, manner, gait, repose enunciation, and vis comica. To watch this brilliant artist make bricks- out of straw was a complete lesson in acting: Mr. Arthur Sinclair had' the even more difficult task of making straw "out of nothing at all. A bomb would not have blown up' this play more effectively than one single intonation of this great comedian, ■ who needs an O'Casey to stand up to him. The play was rapturously received by an immensely smart house. But I know ruder audiences whereby the more than talented players must have shaken the yolk of inauspicious eggs from their' play--wearied flesh.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 21
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187LESSON IN ACTING. Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 21
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