Word: helen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silverware. . . . I'm looking for ward most to visiting New Orleans. . . . It's a rare privilege for a girl to play . . . across the net from Tilden. . . ." While professional tennists were starting their tenth season in Manhattan last week, the most famed woman amateur player in the world. Helen Wills Moody, was starting something else in San Fran cisco. She and Instructor Howard Kinsey set out to see how often they could bat the ball to each other without missing. Aiming at 5,000 times, they rallied steadily for 1 hr. 18 min., stopped at 2,001 (a record...
...have installed indoor ski-slides, covered with borax. Instructors ($2 to $3 an hour) give advice, teach beginners to keep their balance, to perform simple turns, to stop without falling down. In California, sale of ski equipment is this year 100% above last. In Hollywood, characters like Charlie Chaplin, Helen Twelvetrees, Joel McCrea, Mrs. Frank Borzage, have become skiing devotees. At the University of California, three years ago, Alexander Hildebrand, son of Chemistry Professor Joel Hildebrand, was the only competent practicing skier. Now not only California, but University of California at Los Angeles. Southern California and Nevada have ski teams...
...appeared last winter a soprano so shapely, so vividly blonde that she seemed more like a transient from Hollywood than a potential singer of real grand opera. In the Pasha's Garden was such a flaccid, sterile piece, offered such feeble opportunities that critics would only say that Helen Jepson was unusually pretty...
...smallest star (5 ft.) on the U. S. stage has one of the longest tempers, rarely permits herself a more violent expression of dissatisfaction than her characteristic "Pe-ew!" But last week Helen Hayes was feeling particularly good. There were the White Blouse invitations. ("To think, here I was born in Washington and never imagined I could get in the White House back door!") And, with a pair of noteworthy Queens already in her hand, she was reasonably sure of drawing three of a kind on Broadway this week...
Vocally sure, also, was graceful young Helen Oelheim, another débutante who did all she could with the absurd role of Siebel, for which she had to dress as a boy, flutter about picking flowers. Back-slapping scene of the week took place in the Grand Central station late that night when Tenor Kullmann rushed through the "Charles Kullmann" specials, shaking hands with his townsfolk to whom he was just plain Charlie...