Word: tellegen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Between Friends. A rather machine-made story of artists' life, in which Lou Tellegen is represented as hypnotizing a "friend" (who stole his wife) to commit suicide on Christmas eve, and then hypnotizing him out of it, by sheer power of the Tellegen will and smoldering eyes. A high spot is a Greenwich Village ball, in which great fun prevails when one of the revelers spanks the others with a waiter's tray...
Geraldine Farrar: "When the judge signed my decree of divorce from Lou Tellegen, he permitted me to resume my maiden name or to remarry, but forbade Mr. Tellegen to marry again during my lifetime except by express permission of the court...
Outside of a conventional telephone conversation for the beginning and the villain's change of heart at the end, Lou Tellegen's "Underneath the Bough" at the Colonial is distinctly at play of an unusual type...
...Tellegen, in the role of the tall, good-looking Poilu, plays his part to perfection. His English, interspersed with French, endows the character with a power which none but he could give. The supporting cast is admirable. From Mr. Ivan Simpson, as Sir Arthur Arkwright, the spineless Englishman, to Miss Bogislav, as Madame Helene, the French modiste, there is little that can be said other than praise. No review would be complete unless some mention was made of Miss Belwin. She, as Mildred, fulfills all the requirements of the pretty heroine in love--madly in love--with her soldier hero...
...play is rich with bits of real humor, with real acting and a plot reaching at times true melodrama. Surely Boston is fortunate to have Lou Tellegen here...