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...Button J. Edward Bromberg Will Parrott Morris Carnovsky Adah Menken Stella Adler Adam Keane Walter Coy Jessie Sargent Margaret Barker Lon Firth Alexander Kirkland Guy, Jr. Sanford Meisner...
...pageant given last fortnight at semiswank Atlantic Beach Club on Long Island. Most of them scantily clad to represent such characters as Messalina, Mae West and Pocahontas, the performers included Swimmer Helen Meany, a semi-nude showgirl and that most formidable and ubiquitous of socialites. Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken. To dine and see the pageant 251 persons had bought tickets at $7.50 each and, to give the spectacle an air of righteous charity, the profits, if any, were to go to a local fire department, a police fund, an undenominational hospital, and a Catholic hospital?St. Joseph...
...denied that Mr. Morley gives a picture of the American scene which might well be intensely interesting a hundred years hence. But it seems doubtful that any one will be reading his books even twenty years hence, and at present Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Menken giving life to observation by an injection of thought, reduce Mr. Morley's work to the status of momentarily enjoyable small talk by a nice, whimsical man with an engaging manner and not much else...
Helen Hayes, back to the stage from suffering in cinemas like Farewell to Arms, White Sister, gives to Mary little but these same brave, little girl accents. When she is on the stage in the last scene with Helen Menken, scrawny and harsh-voiced as Elizabeth, she is just a Hollywood actress. Philip Merivale has the height, the nose and the leanness for Bothwell, the only true man in Scotland, plays his part with praiseworthy capability...
...play deals with "some intimate and hitherto unchronicled chapters in the early life of Saint Mara of Trabia," a Croatian woman whose name appears on no church calendar. As the saint. Actress Menken is compelled to choose between a life with a robber called Kristan the Wolf or with a secular gentleman named Josef. The secular gentleman wins out, and toward the close of the play one sees Saint Mara working miracles upon "a man with a twisted foot," "a man with a curved spine" and "a boy with devils"-the latter being Ethel Barrymore's boy John Drew...