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Black Limelight spins along smoothly enough for two acts, bogs down at the denouement, is saved on total rating by the abilities of George Curzon (lately the Parnell of Parnell), Winifred Lenihan and Alexander Kirkland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...writes her own skits, comes by her penetrating literary manner legitimately. Daughter of a Harvard Overseer, sister of Editor Quincy Howe of The Living Age, she tried one year at Radcliffe, then studied with Georges Vitray in Paris, later at the Theatre Guild's defunct school under Winifred Lenihan. Critics, who had not seen her in Manhattan since 1932, applauded her sly caricatures of the U. S. scene, rated her less profound than Draper & Skinner, wittier than either. Some of the Howe Characters & Caricatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Lone Wolf | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

Married? Winifred Lenihan, Theatre Guild actress ("Joan" in George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan); and Frank Walker Wheeler, assistant to the president of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.; in Manhattan. Marriage Revealed. Natacha Rambova, onetime wife of Cinemactor Rudolph Valentino; and Don Alvaro de Urzaiz, Spanish nobleman; 18 months ago; in Palma, Mallorca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 27, 1934 | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...Miss Lenihan said she did not want to appear "sentimental" about fresh air and a baby, but stood on her renter's rights. The baby, not her child, is the son of her second cousin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Winifred Lenihan, Theatre Guild actress (Joan of Arc, Major Barbara), went to court last week to defend her right to put a baby and some clothing on the balcony of her Manhattan apartment. Her landlords, the Turtle Bay Holding Co. Inc., testified: 1) that she erected the balcony in violation of her lease; 2) that the presence of the baby and clothing on the balcony annoyed the neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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