Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Peter Llewellyn Davies, London publisher, original of Sir James Matthew Barrie's "Peter Pan;'' and the Honorable Margaret Leslie Hore-Ruthven, one of the famed socialite twin daughters of Lord Ruthven, Lieutenant Governor of the Island of Guernsey; in London. To escape the crowds outside, Author Barrie, the bridegroom's godfather, left the church via furnace room and coal...
About the play proper there is not much to be said. It is very British in tone, and deals with the complications that follow when a country vicar's daughter reverts to Victorian crinolines in order to win a journey to London, and, ultimately, a husband, together with her twin sister's less devious route to the same goals. The plot is rather more involved than is usual on the contemporary stage. It abounds in "character" parts which require considerable adroitness from the actors, and more experience, perhaps, than undergraduates can supply. There was little wit but much humor...
...scenes that follow the live twin tries to continue his impersonation of the dead one. He has a hard time and the humor of his actions is doubled by the fact that the audience is as baffled as he. When the dead twin's secretary (Kay Francis) comes into the room, she expects the live one to start dictating "where we left off yesterday." He finds himself harassed by blackmailers without knowing who they are and has no one to help him but a blubbering ne'er-do-well (Stuart Erwin), whose mere presence is almost sufficient...
Bertha and Elena de Hellebranth are not twins. One is 29, the other 30. "But," insists Sister Bertha, "we have twin instincts. Life has treated us alike. I am a little too fat, and Elena is maybe a little too thin, but all otherwise we are the same...
...twin instinct has one important manifestation. Living and working together, they usually paint the same subject simultaneously. Any person who orders a de Hellebranth portrait has his choice of two canvases. He need pay for only one. As artists the sisters are evenly matched, for each sells about the same number of pictures...