Edna His Wife (adapted by Cornelia Otis Skinner from the novel by Margaret Ayer Barnes; produced and acted by Miss Skinner). Given 30 seconds to change her costume, makeup and wig, Cornelia Otis ...

MADAME SARAH by Cornelia Otis Skinner. 356 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $6.95. Max Beerbohm thought that she shed an aura of lurid supernaturalness. Dumas the elder described her voice as “a spring ...