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Although Stanley's steamer had not mentioned her at all, Helen Hayes, Broadway's "First Lady," who played Kim's mother onstage, tried to lift her own skirts well clear. "We have worked together with the greatest understanding and sympathy," said Actress Hayes. "I am an innocent bystander...
This only reminded her friends of her constant complaints. "Portman was just a red herring," said one Hayes intimate. "The trouble was between Kim and Helen." Old Pro Hayes was sorely tried by the Method in Kim's acting. "I don't feel like being touched tonight," said Kim before one performance, and so a tender mother-and-daughter scene was played without a caress. Another time, Helen Hayes was quoted as saying, "I got two elbows down my throat from the girl...
...caricature of the sister's landlady was one of the delights of the evening. Robert Scher, as the eventual recipient of Ruth's long repressed affections, made up for an adequate voice with his ease and natural stage manner. The roles of the Village lovers, the Wreck and his Helen, were capably filled by Oscar Anderson and Jill Kneerim...
...HELEN BERLIN North Oaks, Minn...
...Gitter, Gretchen Kanne, and Wendell Clark delineate three phonies without ever a phony stroke in their performances. Mr. Gitter's role is more extensively characterized than the others, and he brings to it the right sort of pudgy excitability and pseudo-suavity. Ray Reinhardt, Dora Landey, Richard Mathews, and Helen England are the most prominent of the Characters, and they handle their long, passionate speeches with conviction. Mr. Reinhardt's and Miss Landey's roles especially are searching tests in emotional acting. They pass, as it were, with honors...