MUST BE MORE VULGAR
THE ACTOR OF TODAY. The actor Charles Laughton, at the annual dinner of the Critics’ Circle in London last month, said; “Actors today must be more vulgar. They must get some of the /itality of the oldtime drama and the sex film of today into modern drama,” Miss Fay Compton said that nowadays first nights seemed to be worse than ever. “The stalls are full of bored, apathetic people completely unrepresentative of the real theatre-goers, and the gallery is full of fans who are intolerant of all but their own favourites.” she declared. Mr Tyrone Guthrie said that once the National Theatre was built, that and the Old Vic would undoubtedly have to be amalgamated because there were not enough actors to staff both or the public to support them,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1939, Page 5
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134MUST BE MORE VULGAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1939, Page 5
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