Word: menken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Helen Menken,* able 26-year-old U. S. actress (The Seventh Heaven, The Makropoulos Secret) ; to Actor Humphrey Bogart, 26 (Up the Ladder, Nerves, Cradle Snatchers) ; in Manhattan, after taking out a marriage license in . 1922. Married. Miss Katharine Duchatel Johnson, daughter of famed novelist Owen Johnson (The Varmint, Stover at Yale, etc.) ; to one William E. Kugeman Jr., in Manhattan...
...Helen Menken played the part, the same Helen Menken who for these many seasons has been playing the downtrodden French girl in Seventh Heaven. The new part is far more difficult and not so artfully woven round with that mysteriously effective element known as "theatre." Neither the play nor the actress was as excellent as many people hoped they would...
...while pre-Raphaelites, transcendentalists, romanticists go unread. Indeed the present has little sympathy with many of the ideals and standards of the nineteenth century. Traditions, morals, and conventions have to bear the daily shafts of the lighter humorists, to say nothing of the sledge-hammer blows of H. L. Menken and the rest of the Grub Street fry on the American Mercury. Emerson, Carlyle, and Mill are no longer known at first hand. Writers of little depth have succeeded to popularity, if not to their places. It is quite likely that society has suffered from this. But who will...
...courage and renunciation. Ann Forrest avoided overdoing this difficult role, and gave the outstanding performance of the evening, and one of the best of this season. W. H. Post was the merry priest, guardian angel of the denizens of the sewer, and John W. Ransone, the lusty Boul'. Grace Menken made so effective a harpy that the audience hissed...
...Countess and her husband were responsible for the establishment of the Hungarian Republic in 1918. Next year, so their enemies averred, they "sold the country to the Bolsheviki." Hence S. Stan wood Menken, President of the National Security League, was up in arms to prevent the landing in the U. S. of "Red Catherine." Said...