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...Congai is reputed to contain a tragic significance. A half-French-half-native girl (Helen Menken) would rather be alone in the jungle with her native lover and their native child than have 100,000 Frenchmen at her feet. Circumstances, however, again and again prevent the fulfillment of her life wish and she ends up as the best congai of Indo-China-the congai of the French governor...
...Helen Menken's performance is far below that of her Seventh Heaven. The staging by Rouben Mamoulian is not as convincing as his Porgy...
...Jessie Bonstelle. In this theatre many good actors have played and Miss Bonstelle, a kindly, able, loquacious lady, is regarded as an expert impresario. It is said that she taught Alice Brady how to act and other able mimes-Ben Lyons, Ann Harding, James Rennie, Katherine Cornell, Helen Menken-have appeared in her productions. Last spring Jessie Bonstelle organized a drive for subscribers in order to convert her playhouse into...
Sued for Divorce. By Helen Menken, actress (Seventh Heaven, The Captive), Humphrey Bogart, actor (The Cradle Snatchers, Saturday's Children). She charged cruelty...
...Alfred Lunt, for his work in Juarez and Maximilian, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Second Man. Actresses honorably mentioned in the critics' ballots: Alice Brady (Sour Grapes, The Witch, Lady Alone, The Thief), Ruth Gordon (Saturday's Children), Rose McClendon (In Abraham's Bosom), Helen Menken (The Captive), Ethel Barrymore (The Constant Wife), Lynn Fontanne (Pygmalion, The Second Man), Jane Cowl (The Road To Rome), Blanche Yurka (The Squall). Actors honorably mentioned: Walter Huston (The Barker), Frank Wilson (In Abraham's Bosom), Morgan Farley (An American Tragedy), Lee Tracey (Broadway), Holbrook Blinn (The Play...