Word: helene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maeve Kinkead plays Helen, one of the Countess's ladies in waiting and ultimately Bertram's wife. Her voice--an oddly throaty soprano--takes some getting used to, and she occasionally slips into unattractive facial expressions. But she accomplishes her main objective--making Helen's infatuation with Bertram and her long-standing fidelity to him even after he deserts her seem like more than calculated perverseness. One may not see what she sees in her beloved, but one accepts her devotion as genuine and is tempted to condone the questionable strategems she employs to win him back...
Robert Egan, the jester who chaffs with Helen and the Countess, affects an implausibly insouciant air, but derives more humor from his quibbling lines than one would have thought modern audiences could appreciate. Guy Kuttner, in another comic role, spatters the stage with grunts and gutteral gibberish as he pretends to be translating some esoteric tongue; for all its lack of subtlety it's a funny...
...whining child that Chumley would have him in the first two acts. And when he reappears later on, sporting a silky little mustache, he displays a bluff heartiness that keeps ringing false. We are not prepared for Bertram's last petulant falsehoods and final acceptance of Helen in the last act simply because we do not get a real sense of his growing maturity...
...Miss Helen Loftis, a U.S. employee, testified that she found three ounces of marijuana in a silver snuff box concealed between Miss Leary's legs, the Associated Press reports...
...Retire?" cried Actress Helen Hayes at a Manhattan Book and Author luncheon. "Never. I'll come back gratefully wagging my tail just as soon as someone offers me a good part that doesn't depress me." Helen already had the offer. Next day she reported that, at 65, she is beginning a new career as a repertory player with Manhattan's Association of Producing Artists-Phoenix troupe. "It has brought back the glow to my cheeks," raved Helen. "I'm thrilled at the prospect of the sort of plays that I love-plays of substance...