Word: helen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength of her London success and her box-office power Cinemactress Grace Moore has been re-engaged. Pretty Helen Jepson will be given more leading roles than she had last season. Outstanding contraltos are Karin Branzell, Doris Doe, Gladys Swarthout, Cyrena Van Gordon, Rose Bampton, Kathryn Meisle and Marion Telva, who has been badly missed since she left the Metropolitan in 1931. Outstanding tenors: Lauritz Melchior, Paul Althouse, Giovanni Martinelli. Charles Hackett. Nino Martini. The baritones: Lawrence Tibbett, John Charles Thomas, Friedrich Schorr, Richard Bonelli. The bassos: Ezio Pinza, Ludwig Hofmann, Emanuel List, Leon Rothier...
...Sutton, W. Va., who will make her Metropolitan debut as Madame Butterfly. Two of the newcomers are Belgians : Tenor René Maison and Basso Hubert Raidich. Baritone Carlo Morelli is a Chilean, Eduard Habich, a German. Added to the U. S. contingent are Josephine Antoine, Hilda Burke, Charlotte Symons, Helen Oelheim, Julius Huehn, Dudley Marwick, Chase Baromeo, all with stage experience...
...special guard in red uniforms and 50 private detectives standing by every entrance were not enough last week for the opening of the Henry Clay Frick art collection on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Dynamic Miss Helen Clay Frick sent for the bomb squad from police headquarters and a special detail of a precinct captain, a sergeant, and twelve patrolmen. Only then were the doors opened and New York's bluest bloods admitted to a museum to which, in the will of its donor, "the entire public shall forever have access subject only to reasonable regulations...
Henry Clay Frick died in 1919. His house was untouched until Mrs. Frick followed him in 1931. Since then their capable, ginger-haired daughter Helen has made the Frick art collection her career, almost her religion. With her own funds she assembled and housed a topnotch art library next door to her father's house (TIME, Jan. 21). As the most active member of the trustees of the $15,000,000 fund that was left to administer the collection, she has weeded out and improved her father's public legacy in the past four years until...
...Moscow and stock companies by the hundreds performing throughout the provinces, is by all odds the world's most active and inventive. With an imitative eye on its spiritual mother, the Theatre Union has produced Mother, adapted from Maxim Gorky's novel of an illiterate old woman (Helen Henry)* who, once she gets the hang of things, turns out to be the best Marxist of them all. The play's subject matter is no more radical than the technique by which it is presented...