Word: helen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June 1935 svelte, socialite Mrs. Helen Appleton Read, lecturer and long-time art critic of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, sailed to Germany to organize a monumental loan exhibition of German art for the U. S. with the backing of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation and the Oberlaender Trust. Nazi officials at first were suspicious, but Mrs. Read had a fine argument for Minister for Propaganda Goebbels and Minister for Culture Rust: the French Government had won great and favorable publicity in the U. S. by loan exhibits of the 18th-Century French masters. Would Germany do less...
Ramona (Twentieth Century-Fox). The cinema's recent investigation of the U. S. past including to date The Gorgeous Hussy, Robin Hood of Eldorado, Hearts Divided, The Plainsman, The Texas Rangers, Last of the Mohicans and Daniel Boone (see col. 3), now broadens to include Novelist Helen Hunt Jackson's quiet classic about a ranch-girl's love-life in the San Jacinto mountains, circa 1870. Ramona herself is half-historical, half-fictional, half-white and half-Indian, but there is nothing halfway in the manner in which Twentieth Century-Fox has handled her biography...
...seems so obvious that Helen's tennis was fine until she played Marble...
...motivated entirely by necessities of plot. Its principal actors are three juveniles. That circumstance permits the authors to finesse one natural denouement after another by having the old folks squelch the children every time they are in a position to reveal important evidence as to who killed Aunt Helen and Uncle John...
Women tennists lack the stubbornness as well as the stamina of men. Even Helen Jacobs, most tenacious tennist of her sex, was discouraged after that. In the third set the brilliant game with which she had beaten England's Kay Stammers the afternoon before went completely to pieces and she won only four points in the first four games. She got the next two games but that was merely the brave gesture of a player who knew she was beaten. The crowd, which had been rooting for Miss Marble, showed its understanding by rooting for the old champion...