Three Faces East

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Three Faces East (1918), a play by Anthony Paul Kelly. [Cohan and Harris Theatre, 335 perf.] German espionage headquarters enlists the aid of a beautiful girl known as Fraulein Helene ( Violet Heming) to take the place of a murdered Englishwoman. She is to go by U‐boat to make contact with the mysterious Franz Boelke ( Emmett Corrigan), who hopes to blow up the cabinet during a meeting. The Germans' plans are thwarted, and Boelke is exposed after it is revealed Helene is actually an English counterspy who even finds time for a romantic fling. Co‐producer George M. Cohan's extensive rewriting and swift‐paced direction, coupled with wartime prosperity, accounted in large measure for the success of this thriller. The Chicago‐born Anthony Paul Kelly (1895–1932) was primarily a screenwriter, whose only other Broadway play was The Phantom Legion (1919), another war drama.

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