Word: menken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). The Old Maid, with Judith Anderson, Helen Menken...
Kathryn Howard, by Jean Holloway, for Helen Menken on the Kate Smith Hour. Henry VIII and his fifth queen in a struggle of wills before her execution, proving that good theater may be good radio...
...West, literally carved a man to pieces with his bowie knife, went to sleep on a table while his awed companions collected and removed the fragments. In the opera house, fights between bulldogs and wildcats alternated with Eastern stage celebrities, including famed, dark-haired Adah Isaacs Menken, strapped half-clad to the back of a horse...
...Hugo Black's onetime Ku Klux Klan connections won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1938; Lloyd Allan Lehrbas of Associated Press, one of a lucky handful of newsmen who happened to be in Poland last year when Adolf Hitler's army moved in with them; Cineman Arthur Menken, who filmed the desolation left by Russian bombers in Finland, the swarms of German raiders flying over Britain; Vincent Sheean, prematurely greying veteran of the Riff rebellion, Spain's Civil War, the Nazi occupation of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, who covered the Battle of Britain for North American Newspaper Alliance...
...from the lone Polish prairie. Enacted in Suffern by the papier-mache horse used by the Lunts in their Taming of the Shrew, the role of the high-tempered stallion is reduced to comic relief. But riding one of his flesh-&-blood predecessors back in the 1860s, Adah Isaacs Menken, most celebrated Mazeppa of them all, was bruised on many occasions by being thrown, kicked, stepped on. As Mazeppa, the well-made Menken used to be stripped down to her step-ins before being tossed aboard the horse. Critics of the time deplored her striptease, grieved at the tawdry sensationalism...