Word: helen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first of the double bill at Keith Memorial Victor Moore and Helen Broderick give their usual clever performance to hold together a weak and long-drawn adaptation of "Ladies of the Jury." The plot, for all those who are not acquainted with it, is another development of the old woman's-intuition-to-decide-a-woman's-fate attitude taken by American juries, and makes use of the usual Moore antics to prove that the jury decided a cause upon anything except the evidence. Unfortunately for the logic of the burlesque, the jury decides right, the true murderer is discovered...
...Helen M. Lynd, instructor in social science at Sarah Lawrence College and co-author of "Middletown," will lecture on "Some Unsolved Problems in Experimental Education on the College Level" at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening at the Fogg Museum. The lecture is under the auspices of the Harvard Graduate School of Education...
...days before her seventh birthday, Mary MacArthur made her stage debut unknown to the audience in the last scene of Victoria Regina, when, as Princess Ena of Battenberg, she walked on, spoke no line but curtsied to her mother, Helen Hayes, in the title role. Backstage afterward Actress MacArthur received telegrams, flowers, an unwelcomed reminder that her mother had made her debut...
...three daughters of a druggist in Silver Bow, Mont., Louise was most beautiful, Grace most domestic, Helen most electric. Louise was one of nature's noblewomen and great things were expected of her, so when she eloped with a hard-drinking sports writer, Silver Bow was shocked. After many an up & down, Louise's husband left her, shipped as a sailor the night before the San Francisco earthquake. The shock and the quake combined gave Louise brain fever. A friendly floozy took her in, and she recuperated in a bawdy house. Then she married a rich...
...Helen, the problem child, was boy-crazy from the start, but not so crazy that she miscalculated her own value. Her first marriage, to a fat old copper tycoon, got her out of Silver Bow to the happy hunting grounds of the East. There she had a series of affairs, a series of marriages, at book's end was still going strong as a problem child in her fifties...