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...also seen exceptional acting. Leaving aside the visit of the Moscow Art Theatre and its demonstration of what gorgeous teamwork a repertory company can display-Jane Cowl as Juliet, Jeanne Eagels in Rain, Alice Brady in Zander the Great, Katharine Cornell and Haidee Wright in Will Shakespeare, Helen Menken in Seventh Heaven-on the masculine side, John Barrymore's Hamlet, Rudolph Schildkraut's performance in the God of Vengeance, Glenn Hunter's " Merlon" in the young-man-by-that-name of the Movies-these are only a random few selected from a great number of striking individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Some Aspects | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

SEVENTH HEAVEN?Illustrating the joys of a literal ascent from the sewer to the gutter. Its seventh heaven is only the top floor of a tenement from which Helen Menken succeeds in driving out the angel of darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 28, 1923 | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

SEVENTH HEAVEN?Illustrating the joys of a literal ascent from the sewer to the gutter. Its seventh heaven is only the top floor of a tenement from which Helen Menken succeeds in driving out the angel of darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 19, 1923 | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

SEVENTH HEAVEN-Helen Menken as a down-trodden Parisian slavey who lashes her bullying sister into submission with a blacksnake whip. Conventional but exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Apr. 28, 1923 | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...brilliant tract against militant Christianity in the South Seas. Jeanne Eagels as the attractive, hard-boiled demimondaine. U. S. Marines, real rain, and the hot, moist breath of the tropics. SEVENTH HEAVEN-A blacksnake whip and an off-stage rendering of La Marseillaise are the emotional assistants to Helen Menken in a thrilling melodrama of Paris. KIKI-Lenore Ulric still turning 'em away at the Belasco Theatre. The story of a little Paris grisette who wasn't half so bad as she painted herself. THE ADDING MACHINE - Expressionistic projection of an humble Babbitt called Mr. Zero. A satirical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema Notes, Apr. 21, 1923 | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

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