Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA?Shaw jibes at the ancients through the accomplished soundboxes of the Theatre Guild and Helen Hayes...
...skyscrapers will be painted brilliant contrasting shades to relieve the drabness of stone, the depression of congested life," declared Decorator Helen Adler...
Failing to obtain George Arliss or Godfrey Tearle for Caesar, the Guild chose Lionel Atwill. His magnificent presence enhanced the role's potentialities; his heavy humor and his cloudy diction deadened them. Helen Hayes, though very lovely and expert, was occasionally caught in her inexhaustible supply of cuteness. Helen Westley, veteran of many a Guild production, seemed to lack entirely the sinister severity of Ftatateeta. The best performance was contributed by Henry Travers as Britannus. The production was magnificent and the new theatre certainly the finest, the most comfortable and the most beautiful in Manhattan...
Married. Richard H. Little ("R. H. L."), successor of the late Bert Leston Taylor as conductor of the "Line o' Type or Two" column in the Chicago Daily Tribune, to Miss Helen Melton ("Helen Henna"), one of his contributors; in Chicago...
...claque is a sort of musical insurance against an occasional unresponsive audience. Not infrequently it is more a parasite upon an artist than his tool. If there had been Pond's Cold Cream on sale in Troy or Nuxated Iron on Olympus, what is more likely than that Helen and Mars respectively would have availed themselves of these things ? Queen Marie of Rumania uses Pond's Cream (according to advertisements) and Jack Dempsey takes Nuxated Iron (TIME, July...