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...death in 1891, his widow switched to legitimate shows and nearly every personage in U. S. show business, from General & Mrs. Tom Thumb to Douglas Fairbanks, has at one time or another played Elitch's. This season's company features such names as Ona Munson and Kenneth MacKenna. Helen Bonfils, stage-struck heiress to the late Gambler Frederick Bonfils' Denver Post, will do bits...
...Linda Watkins) of an amiable but footloose playwright (Kenneth MacKenna...
...looks and acts dumb but in truth is far too smart for him and his girl friends, whom she converts by a great display of sheer innocence into her friends instead of his. Actor MacKenna (Merrily We Roll Along, Accent on Youth) has been playing erring dramatists so long he should be able to present the required blend of boyish and goatish behavior even though in the throes of somnambulism. Linda Watkins (June Moon) is equally adept at impersonating the girl whose shrewdness is masked by wide-open eyes and naive questions. Between them, they should manage to keep Penny...
...Respondent Unknown (By Mildred Harris & Harold Goldman; MacKenna, Mielziner & Mayer, Producers). Title role in this conjugal rough-&-tumble is played by Peggy Conklin, the extremely pretty brunette who was bundled into dramatic fame in The Pursuit of Happiness (TIME, Oct. 23, 1933). Last year she was the pert daughter of the Arizona quick-lunch proprietor in The Petrified Forest. In Co-Respondent Unknown Actress Conklin again appears as a gamine whose innocence about sex is equaled only by her curiosity...
...school austerity, but bursts now and then into roars of epileptic passion which old-school critics deprecated as inarticulate. Desdemona is played with competent verve by Gladys Cooper, the Jane Cowl of Britain who first appeared in the U. S. last year in The Shining Hour. Kenneth MacKenna provides a jaunty lago who obviously relishes discussing his skulduggery with himself and his audience...