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...Three Cornered Moon which they produced last year, they showed good casting sense. Dorothy Gish looks younger than she is (36). Howard Lindsay, who dramatized the season's successful comedy, She Loves Me Not, has not acted since he played the scenario writer in Dulcy (1921). Kenneth MacKenna, who is currently being divorced by Kay Francis, sounds Scotch and specializes in Scottish roles, but his real name is Leo Mielziner Jr. His brother Jo designed the set of a spacious country living room that helps to make By Your Leave a comfortably familiar knickknack...
...gang of crooks, is as complicated as it sounds, yet never quite silly and never vulgar. A drama of manner is intended. The dialog, written by Clare Kummer, is civilized. The settings are beautiful; the cast, bought from the legitimate theatre and including Marguerite Churchill and Kenneth MacKenna, takes pains with its material. The result is tedious because the medium is still too crude for the effect attempted. You sorely miss the old-fashioned bathos of those pictures which tried hard, however ineptly, to make you cry or wriggle with excitement. Typical shots: Frederick Graham, cinema's best butler...
...Kenneth MacKenna is a young husband, out to make good in the financial world. To him and to Peggy Wood, his ambitious wife, an appointment to the German office of his firm symbolizes success second only to an appointment to the Shanghai branch. On the day before the appointment is to be announced he resigns his position, feeling that he is not to get the coveted appointment. Next day he tells his wife, is still explaining away when in bursts an old flame. At this point Playwright Strong trephines the husband's skull, lays open the human brain. Centers...
...odors. Chameleon Pierre turns Babbitt, nearly estranges the girl while ingratiating himself with her father, ultimately wins her with a recrudescence of Gallic passion when his success is dramatically jeopardized by an American rival. The farce is spotted with easy gags, is occasionally deft, never hysterical. Kenneth MacKenna as Pierre, Lucile Nikolas as Barbara, Harlan Briggs as Father make the most of it, provide an evening of contented chuckling...
...producing their annual show has invited the cast of "Castles in the Air", now playing in Boston to be the guest of the Pi Eta players and make any suggestions. They have accepted and are expected the latter part of the week. Only recently Helen Hayes and Kenneth MacKenna, stars of "What Every Woman Knows", gave advice to the cast at a tea.--Courtesy Alumni Bulletin.THE PI ETA "GIRLS" GET A LESSON IN LOVE-MAKING FROM HELEN HAYES AND HER LEADING MAN Left to Right: R. W. Turner '28, Kenneth MacKenna, Helen Hayes, A. E. French '29, Howard whit more...