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Chapter 2 - Play Going - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Now there is no reason why we should expect the English to be temperamental actors. We do not expect a greasy Italian to stand up to fast bowling on a bumpy wicket, but we do ask him to sing.
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Chapter 3 - Play Going - (Found June 29, 2008 )

A PLAYER may possess every imaginable quality of mind and temperament and all possible powers of mimicry and impersonation.
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W.C. Fields - Never Give A Suck An Even Break - (Found June 29, 2008 )

His real name is William Claude Duganfield. He can't rehearse his part in a play or picture without holding a cane in his hand.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-21.shtml

Helen Morgan - Fanny On The Piano - (Found June 29, 2008 )

SOME people achieve fame by playing the piano. But this little lady got that way by sitting on one. HELEN MORGAN.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-22.shtml

Eugene O'Neill - The Great God O'Neill - (Found June 29, 2008 )

He is the only Broadway playwright who was born in Times Square. He was born in the Barrett House, now the Hotel Cadillac, at Forty-third Street and Broadway. The date: October 16, 1888.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-23.shtml

Joe Cook - The Four Hawaiians - (Found June 29, 2008 )

ONCE upon a time there were four Hawaiians. And this guy got famous because he wouldn't imitate them.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-37.shtml

Dorothy Gish - Isn't She Sweet - (Found June 29, 2008 )

She is five feet four inches. Weighs a hundred five pounds. Wears a size four shoe. She has gray eyes. When she wears a blue hat, however, they appear bluish.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-38.shtml

Richard Bennett - (Found June 29, 2008 )

SOME day someone will write another Royal Family. It will be a tale of the mad, mad Bennetts. For that author, here's some data about the head of the clan: RICHARD BENNETT.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-39.shtml

Roxy Theatre - (Found June 29, 2008 )

HE wanted a monument, so he built the Roxy Theatre and called it, with his usual simplicity, The Cathedral of the Motion Picture.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-4.shtml

A.H. Woods - Samuel Hoffenstein's Creation - (Found June 29, 2008 )

His real label is Albert Herman. Without knowing a thing about numerology, he made his name initials. Then added the tag of Woods, taking it from N. S. Woods, an actor whom he worshiped.
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