WOMEN AND STAGE
“NO GREAT ACTRESSES.” LONDON, November 2. The novelist and playwright Gilbert Frankau has aroused a storm fay statements made in a lecture. ... Mr Frankau said: “England has no great emotional actresses. She has «xid comediennes and women who are skiltul in portraying back-chat across tne supper table but not a single Englishwoman who is able to ‘shove over a big tearing g cene> “On the contrary, the American actor is incredibly bad, and it is only recently that any American man of decent family has gone on the stage.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19947, 15 November 1926, Page 11
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92WOMEN AND STAGE Otago Daily Times, Issue 19947, 15 November 1926, Page 11
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