Word: vollmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story, which starts off with the promise of an indictment of hill-billy superstition, soon becomes the Hepburn, the whole Hepburn, and nothing but the Hepburn. Lula Vollmer, who has written several plays of the backwoods, sees her story completely appropriated by the clever actress who, we hear, is aiming at a Hollywood greatness that will rival Garbo's. The character players who make up the local color are taken from Miss Vollmer's radio sketch of the Tennessee mountains, "Moonshine and Honeysuckle," and are used only as folls for Miss Hepburn. Ralph Bellamy and Robert Young, young engineers...
...Vollmer, General Theological Seminary, Manhattan, denounced "disgustingly inefficient methods the churches are using, the effeminate piety generally observed among clergy...
Adapted by Playwright Lula Vollmer from the Hungarian of Imre Fazekas, this harrowing story is never more than a quasi-historical melodrama. Its title is ambiguously symbolical: a troyka is a Russian carriage drawn by three horses, the centre horse wearing a halter around its neck. The play exhibits all the typical appurtenances of Russian drama, including characters named Bogulieff and Bolotoff, without any of the vitalizing insight of a Chekhov or a Tolstoy. Natascha is quietly played by Zita Johann, whose intelligent presence gave interest to last season's Machinal...