Word: mackellar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Open House. Helen MacKellar, who was the target of so much grimy advertising in The Good Baa Woman fuss, does not seem to be a lucky picker. This latest is one of the vast flood of inferior pieces that have come along lately. It is about a big-business man who forced his wife to flirt with prospective customers and thus assist in the acquisition of great contracts. The play was bad and most of the acting, Miss MacKellar's excepted, was very bad indeed...
...Turtle. Helen MacKellar is also back again, she after a briefer absence and one which scarcely washes away the muddy footprints of The Good Bad Woman (TIME, Feb. 23) across the public porch. That venture was an unwise effort at publicity. Miss MacKellar is really a pretty good actress. She shows it in the Mud Turtle...
...Helen MacKellar played the star role. A day or two after the critics had expressed themselves, she repented and avowed publicly her intention of quitting the play. The move was generally regarded as a further play for publicity, since she must have had time in the rehearsal period to let the significance of her material sink in. She swore sincerely and her performance was generally considered competent...
...World very nicely. He declared himself in perfect concurrence with its desire for clean plays, and offered to remove his production from the boards--as soon as six or seven other managers whose plays he declared were just as had did likewise. To cap the climax Miss MacKellar's pathetic refusal to endanger her reputation by playing the leading role has been made public. One guesses correctly that the play is still being performed before packed houses, and Miss MacKellar's name still heads the program...
George Broadhurst will present Helen MacKellar in "The Storm" at the Globe on March...