Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frankly fragile conversations, bent chiefly upon satire of love, as it was then conveniently called. The Provincetown Playhouse group, which have several times more than justified their first season fanfare of intelligent plays produced for the intelligent, gave the piece a satisfactory display. Most of their usual players (Helen Freeman, Edgar Stehli, Walter Abel, E. J. Ballantine, Perry Ivins) were in the cast and accounted for themselves with even competence. Adrienne Morrison, a visitor, added a brilliant touch. It was the consensus of opinion that the piece was just well enough played to make you pine to see it with...
...Does Helen of Troy need Pond's Cold Cream or Mars Nuxated Iron? A claque...
...classé It was Ethel Barrymore who first laughed bitterly and died as Lady Helen Haden. That was several years ago, and Declasse was a play from the pen of Zöe Akins. It has now completed the cycle and entered its final phase as a cinema. It proves itself flimsy film material. The story tells of a titled Englishwoman stranded in Manhattan with the alternative of going hungry or to the Devil. Corinne Griffith does as much as possible (a very great deal) to pick the story up and put it on its listless feet...
Then, worn out with thunderous living, still in his fifties, he died. He left this system- under a trust designed to preserve it- and six children- George Jay, Edwin, Howard, Helen, Frank J. and Anna. Three of the sons married actresses and one daughter married a foreign nobleman. There have been three divorces in that generation...
...cast play it in a shuffling fashion. Edgar Stehli as the idealist, Walter Abel as the sergeant and Helen Freeman as the wife were like mushrooms nodding underground. The slight piece would make a shimmering curtain-raiser, if the cast were whipped up into playing it more smartly...