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Died. Helen Menken, 64, bravura Broadway actress of the 1920s and '30s, who is best remembered for her 1933 portrayal of Elizabeth Tudor in Maxwell Anderson's long-running Mary of Scotland, later suffered facial paralysis when nerves were accidentally severed during a 1949 mastoid operation, but went on to become nine-year president of the American Theater Wing, sponsor of the annual "Tony" awards; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...only certifiably sinful relationship-with Music Hall Actress Adah Isaacs Menken-ended after six weeks. "I can't make Algernon understand," she ruefully explained, "that biting's no use." Eventually, he retired to the country for his health under the care of a proper Victorian solicitor-scholar named Theodore Watts-Dunton. And the world, learning that his poetic passions had been mainly pastiche, soon decided his passionate poetry was merely overblown...
...this year's schedule brings groups from the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, India, Ireland, Uruguay, Chile, Egypt and South Africa. Just before returning to the U.S., the State Department-sponsored troupe that included Helen Hayes, June Havoc, Leif Erickson and Helen Menken did The Skin of Our Teeth and The Grass Menagerie there. And this week Manhattan's Living Theater group arrives at the Théâtre des Nations with Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities and Jack Gelber's The Connection...
...refused to offer Frankie $5,000 for a one-shot appearance. Meanwhile, the Royal Poinciana Playhouse had begun its fourth season with The Skin of Our Teeth, which will soon leave on a State Department tour of Europe, with Helen Hayes, Leif Erickson, June Havoc and Helen Menken. With Artist-Showman Salvador Dali. Bandleader Sammy Kaye, Mime Marcel Marceau, Actor-Singer Russell Nype. Hollywood Profile George Hamilton and Actress Susan Kohner also in town for highly varied reasons, there was more than ample fuel for the increasing celebrity-consciousness of Palm Beach's younger generation...
HAROLD D. MENKEN Upperville...