Word: yurka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stephen (Richard Hale) is leading a comfortable life with his stolid, attentive wife (Blanche Yurka ) when Karl and his bride come to visit. The bride (svelte Lora Baxter) has previously been Stephen's mistress in Paris...
...staged by Blanche Yurka, with Esther Dale in the title role and 13 memorably explicit little settings by Norris Houghton, Carry Nation is an extremely interesting, somewhat wry portrait of a U. S. phenomenon. It reaches no climaxes, appears more like a piece by Herbert Asbury for the American Mercury than a play, but the amateur of Americana should get his money's worth from...
...weeks space Cambridge has twice has an opportunity to see to what lengths beings the wife of a professor will drive a leading lady. In "Uncle Vanya," which the Studio Players recently put on, and in "Hedda Gabbler", which Blanche Yurka opened Monday night, the lady becomes so bored with her existence that she makes a plot for Chekov or for Ibsen. Perhaps because, in the pattern of an older generation, there were no clubs or sports to keep women busy, or because they congenitally lacked any insight or interest in research before the days of women's colleges, their...
...difference is intensified by the acting of Miss Yurka. One is loth to blame her for her declamatory style of acting in a play that was written when such acting was in vogue, but at times one thinks the lady does protest too much, to render ludicrous a scene which Eva Le Gallienne's more subdued portrayal would have made dramatic. Her manner also makes her seem too feline and too charmless to attract the trio of men that the author gathers round her. She is a witch, and not a leading lady...
Last year the Club brought Blanche Yurka to Boston in "Electra," setting itself the precedent of annually sponsoring a well known company in Boston theatres. In getting these Shakesperian players to perform here, the Club is backing a widely known Shakesperean producer, recently knighted by King George for his services to the drama...