Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then there was the foyer, and with it, all relative to the sixty-five cents, was that appealing influence of Oxford on a South End accent gently intoning that discouraged something about a "Bettah seelekshun." Those fifteen pairs of trodden toes reacted in the usual incoherent manner. The patron saint of sleeping dogs keeps watch over the soles of metropolitan theatre-goers...
...many men alive today have walked and talked with an authentic saint. Such a man is rare old Henri Chéron, sturdy, twinkling-eyed Finance Minister of France...
Neither piety nor goodness alone makes a saint. There must be evidence of authentic miracles, attested by the most diligent scrutiny of the Roman Catholic Church...
...Saint Wench (by John Colton; Helen Menken, producer). Playwright John Colton is the man who wrote The Shanghai Gesture, co-dramatized a William Somerset Maugham story into Rain. Helen Menken of the thin face and beech-leaf hair accomplished emotional successes in Seventh Heaven, The Infinite Shoeblack, The Captive. It is to be recorded with reluctance that Mr. Colton's Saint Wench, acted in and managed by Miss Menken, is an unconscionable bore, a pitiably uninspired piece of stagecraft...
...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...