Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foudroye," the first of the one-act pieces, will have the following in the cast: Beaupre W. D. Carter '31 Boismoreau F. W. Coudert '30 Germaine Miss Isabella Grandin Marie Miss Helen Streeter...
Coquette. What seems reliably like the finest play of the season arrived last week aglow with a stunning performance by Helen Hayes. The play was variously compounded out of Smith College and the intensely theatrical background of the melodrama, Broadway. In the cast of Broadway there once appeared one Ann Preston Bridgers, Smith girl, potential playwright. Her manuscript came under the canny eye of George Abbott, one of the authors of Broadway, and when he was through with it Jed Harris, producer of the same success, went out and hired a troupe. To head it he hired Helen Hayes...
Sued for Divorce. By Helen Menken, actress (Seventh Heaven, The Captive), Humphrey Bogart, actor (The Cradle Snatchers, Saturday's Children). She charged cruelty...
...Erskine-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). The simplicity of Author Erskine's formula is so evident that definition is unnecessary. What escapes definition is this: why should talk that would be only mildly witty coming from the mouths of imaginary characters be continuously entertaining when imagined as spouting from mythical Helen of Troy, legendary Galahad or biblical Eve? Here is the triangle of Eve, Lilith, and poor old Adam, who gets tossed up and down in the web of their attractions like a fresh-man in a blanket. First Lilith gets him, then Eve, then Lilith, then Eve. (Then he gets...
...overwritten by Mr. Milne, overacted by Henry Hull, overproduced, it becomes a despair to the intelligent, most of whom honor Mr. Milne at his best;* and Henry Hull likewise (Lulu Belle). Mr. Hull mincing with earnestness, gurgles: "I am only a young man and I want to know. . . ." Helen Chandler, pitched into the role of a romantic maiden after two days' rehearsal, trembled prettily...