The U. S. theatre honors two First LadiesKatharine Cornell and Helen Hayes. The two are very unlike in appeal.
Yearning, slightly throaty Cornell, with her great eyes and grand manner, is chiefly a personality; Helen Hayes, deft and versatile, is every inch an actress. Cornell, in a sense, never seemed young; Helen Hayes rose to fame in girlish and flapper parts, came of age as Maggie Wylie in a revival of What Every Woman Knows, slowly gained enough poise and stature to triumph thrice as queenas Cleopatra, Mary of Scotland, Victoria.
Last year Actress Cornellslightly the older of the twotold her life story;...