sentences:  She served as its chairman during World War II and began serving as president of the group in 1957.Menken was active on radio in the 1940s (starring as Brenda Cummings in "Second Husband" and notably recreating her performance opposite Judith Anderson in a 1946 radio adaption of "The Old Maid").Menken made a short film in New York City in 1925 for Lee DeForest, filmed in the short-lived DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.