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Yesterday afternoon Miss Helen Hayes and Kenneth MacKenna, her leading man, were present at an informal too given by the Pi Eta Club, where she met Howard Whitmore Jr. '29, leading lady of this year's Pi Eta show. "Shoot the Works", and R. B. Booth '27, who is acting the principal male role...
...third. The fact that the third is the son of the first by an earlier marriage accounts for the title ? if anything can account for so fearful a title. Why they did not rest in the Parisian name, Mile. Mama, is not known. Edwin Nicander and Kenneth MacKenna assist competently. The net result is a fair farce, fairly well done...
...simple process of beating a drum and thumping their theological frenzy. Louis Wolheim ("Hairy Ape") as the Negro handled that drum up to the climacteric hysteria like a Sousa of the soul. Ann Davis fills poignantly the repressed role of the girl, and Frank McGlynn ("Abraham Lincoln") and Kenneth MacKenna are two other stalwarts in a community where man is still lord of all he surveys-particularly woman...
Helen Hayes is radiantly demure as the flapper, as deft and cocky as a bird. Hers is the only real spark of life in the piece. O. P. Heggie is condemned to suffocate his gorgeous Dickensian caricaturing in a stuffed shirt role. Kenneth MacKenna and Gilda Leary are others who try valiantly to keep their bearings...
Concealed in a pair of pajamas and a fur coat, the heroine (Boots Wooster), elopes with the hero (Kenneth MacKenna). Concealed in the coat lining are the stolen bonds; concealed in the heroine's past is a presumably dead husband. The husband comes out of the past, the bonds out of the lining, and the heroine out of the coat. The faithful chauffeur appears with a revolver and forces the supposed husband to confess to looking exactly like his dead brother and to stealing the bonds. Then comes the punch of the play. It turns out?you'll hardly believe...