The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.
The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.
A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
