Word: menken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfred Lunt, for his work in Juarez and Maximilian, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Second Man. Actresses honorably mentioned in the critics' ballots: Alice Brady (Sour Grapes, The Witch, Lady Alone, The Thief), Ruth Gordon (Saturday's Children), Rose McClendon (In Abraham's Bosom), Helen Menken (The Captive), Ethel Barrymore (The Constant Wife), Lynn Fontanne (Pygmalion, The Second Man), Jane Cowl (The Road To Rome), Blanche Yurka (The Squall). Actors honorably mentioned: Walter Huston (The Barker), Frank Wilson (In Abraham's Bosom), Morgan Farley (An American Tragedy), Lee Tracey (Broadway), Holbrook Blinn (The Play...
Empire, B'way at 40th St.--If it is not the best, it is the most quintessentially dramatic play on Broadway; and not much was lost in the translation. Helen Menken, as the woman in question--a pathological question--is good if a little bizarre...
Empire, Broadway at 40th.--The Captive. For those interested in pure theatre this play should hold much attraction. Its Lesbian theme is handled perfectly by Bourdet in La Prisonniere, and Hornblow Jr. has not lost much in translating it. Helen Menken at times falls short of the mark, but is, on the whole, fine...
...Captive-Helen Menken as an Urning ; strange, artistic...
...difficult role, Helen Menken brings an unfailing art, frequently of superb power. Her hands alone express the quintessence of anguish. Basil Rathbone, the man married to the form of a woman, supports her with a smoothly finished, under-standing performance, as does Arthur Wontner whose work in the second act is one of the finest things the season has discovered...