Word: gahagan
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...Helen Gahagan, Hollo Peters, Eric Dressier, Mrs. Whiffen's matronly daughter, Peggy. This, the highest paid assemblage ever seen on one legitimate stage, enacts for the fourth time in the U. S. (the first, 1898) the fortunes of those shockingly Bohemian actors and actresses who strutted in famed Sadler's "Wells" during the reign of good Queen Victoria. To the zip-gobbling audiences of this day, the play offers mellow humor and pathos-qualities whose commercial values are doubtful. To the student of the theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny...
...demands of drama were acceded to in focusing primary interest on the lovers. Helen Gahagan was the girl, the astonishingly beautiful Helen Gahagan who so steadily resembles Ethel Barrymore, possibly imitates her. Alison...
...Korff, who made a distinct impression in The Living Mask (TIME, Jan. 28), here sounds at times like Eddie Foy. Lowell Sherman, save for one or two humorous moments, is hysterical and seems to be constantly limbering up his fingers for typewriter work. Even the extremely honest, intuitive Helen Gahagan gets a little off key from the general falsetto...
...this melodrama. Its psychology seems real and substantial as it carries Leah, daughter of the Viennese master thief, through her efforts to rob a French statesman and philanthropist, to her regeneration, achieved with due self-consciousness. In the final act, when Leah leaves her father and his pals, Miss Gahagan, with Jose Ruben, does some of the best acting of the play, and flames out in a final skyrocket burst that makes a good one-act thriller...
Ethel Barrymore: " Mrs. Fiske, Jane Cowl, Laurette Taylor and I were named by Heywood Broun in The New York World as the four leading women of the American theatre. He said that we will be succeeded by Katharine Cornell, Ann Harding, Helen Gahagan, Florence Johns...