FAMOUS ACTOR’S ANTICS
John Barrymore On
The Stage
Reports of John Barrymore’s antics on the stage with his touring company of “My Dear Children” have been giving Hollywood hysterics. One night in Chicago Barrymore forgot his lines completely, and not even the prompter could get him back in line. Unable to continue with the play, Barrymore pulled up a chair close to the footlights, sat down and told the audience intimate details of his marital troubles with Elaine Barrie.
Barrymore stopped talking an hour and a-half later and the audience cheered. He gets no better with the years, and can still be counted upon to do the most unorthodox things on and off the stage. He still is one of the most colourful figures of the American stage,
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Southland Times, Issue 24005, 21 December 1939, Page 14
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