Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current revival of Juno and the Paycock, two distinguished Abbey Theatre players-Sara Allgood and Barry Fitzgerald-act the title roles (long familiar to them) with wonderful skill and spirit. Actor Fitzgerald's is the showier part, but Actress Allgood gives the more memorable performance. The supporting cast is feeble...
Yearning, slightly throaty Cornell, with her great eyes and grand manner, is chiefly a personality; Helen Hayes, deft and versatile, is every inch an actress. Cornell, in a sense, never seemed young; Helen Hayes rose to fame in girlish and flapper parts, came of age as Maggie Wylie in a revival of What Every Woman Knows, slowly gained enough poise and stature to triumph thrice as queen-as Cleopatra, Mary of Scotland, Victoria...
Last year Actress Cornell-slightly the older of the two-told her life story; this week appears Actress Hayes's. It is told, not by 39-year-old Helen herself, but in a series of letters from her 63-year-old mother to her ten-year-old daughter.* For the reader who can grit his teeth against all Grandma's "Mary darlings" and "Mary sweets," and survive all her gushing over Helen, the method has its points. It saves Helen from having to blow her own horn, and it makes for a fairly frank, highly chatty tone...
Though the book is all Helen, it lacks the cautious, great-lady air that chilled Katharine Cornell's I Wanted to Be an Actress. Mother shows Helen blowing up at Jed Harris when he did backward somersaults over how she should say the one word "Hello" in Coquette. "I didn't know this was Euripides," Helen screamed. "I won't go on until you get out of here!" (He got out.) Mother exposes Helen's tendency to misuse words, quotes her famed "Any one who wants my piano is willing to it," to which George...
...brown-eyed, Bavarian-born wife Kleinchen (real name Maria Hacker), who could almost be tucked into one of the pockets of his massive vest, keeps him well fed and amused. One of the things about her that amuses him most is the way they met. Originally a cinema actress with the old German UFA films, Frau Melchior landed in her future husband's garden in a parachute during the filming of a picture. Since their marriage in 1925 Kleinchen has never missed one of his performances. She accompanies him on all his tours, entertains his guests, manages...