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Died. Margaret Lawrence, 39, famed comédienne, Tea for Three, Secrets, Lawful Larceny; by shooting; in her Manhattan penthouse apartment. In a bottle-strewn bedroom, a bullet in her breast, she was found by the side of her lover, Actor Louis Bennison, also shot. Police thought Bennison killed both. Miss Lawrence, who had been suspended by Actors' Equity Association for "walking out" of Edgar Selwyn's Possession, and recently reinstated, was twice married (Publisher Orson Munn, divorced; Actor Wallace Eddinger, deceased). She had two daughters, Elizabeth Munn, 14, Louisine Munn...
...donate money for the building of a church; then to skip the hills and return to the city bootleggers, with the church fund. Little did they reck that Red Belwyn (Margaret Lawrence), beautiful crookess of the gang, would discover LOVE through the burly person of Devil Ace Gilson (Louis Bennison), head of the Southern Gentlemen's Association of Moonshiners. But she does. And the evildoers drink wood alcohol, thereby losing forever their sight of God's true Heaven. This melodrama, which might have been good satire-comedy, is both thick and thin...
...Virgin. The strange unplumbed affinity between religious exaltation and sex, which was the motif of Rain, has tempted another playwright. He is Arthur Corning White, who teaches English at Dartmouth, and his play has been trimmed and tuned to the theatre by Louis Bennison, an actor. Between them they have turned out a somewhat self-consciously sensational entertainment which has spots of fiery brilliance...
...stage the further adventures of Bill is tempting the Gods--for every reader of "Dere Mable" will expect Bill and Mable to be just as he imagined them. A great deal of disappointment is inevitable under such conditions, but the splendid characterizations, especially by Mr. Bennison, and Mr. Wolsey, who takes the part of Angus, warrant the success of the production. In the words of Bill, "A good time was had by all" at the Tremont last night...
...play the part of a national character like Bill in a way which will satisfy the millions of readers of "Dere Mable" is no easy task, but Mr. Bennison lives up to the specifications of the most exacting spectator. Fern Rogers as "Mable" has a little difficulty with some of the songs, but acts well and is admirably suited for the part. Robert Wolsey, as "Angus," Bill's buddy, is the most entertaining character in the play, and adds life and interest whenever he is on the stage. Elizabeth Hines makes an unusually attractive "Gwendolyn...