Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bought also the rights to the musical comedy that Florenz Ziegfeld had made out of it. Somehow the stretched narrative had to be delayed long enough to make it vocal. The best singing is done in a prolog, related to the text only by its tunes, in which Helen Morgan, whose voice is later apparently heard issuing from the lips of Laura La Plante, sings "My Bill" and "I Can't Help Lovin' That Man." Of the progress of the showboat, Cotton Palace, down the river, Director Harry Pollard has made a picturesque, oldfashioned, tedious melodrama, full...
...Helen Morgan, star of the stage Show Boat, cast in the prolog of the picture to sing some of her songs, was a 16-year-old shopgirl when a group of Chicago admirers bought her a ticket to Montreal where she won $1,000 in a beauty contest. Later, in the cast of George White's Scandals, she began to sing songs sitting, droop-lipped, on a piano; then in Americana, then in her own night club, she climbed from the piano-top to success. When Miami persuaded Universal to hold the film premiere of Show Boat...
...Waldorf Astoria of which Arbiter McAllister also approved, 500 Spence alumnae and their parents gathered for dinner. Yale University's President James Rowland Angell and Steelman Charles M. Schwab were speakers. The news was that the Spence School, now no longer privately owned, has a new headmistress: Miss Helen Clarkson Miller, onetime associate principal and History of Art teacher. She served during the War as director of Training School for canteen workers, and is now on many educational committees, among them the International Relations Committee of World Federation of Educational Association. She is successor to Miss Charlotte. S. Baker...
...Marion Coats of the Sarah Lawrence Junior College, The Bronx; progressive Miss Elizabeth Johnson of the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Miss Eliza Kellas of well-equipped Emma Willard School in Troy, N. Y.; sound, slightly reactionary Miss Mira Hall of Miss Hall's in Pittsfield. Mass.; Miss Helen Tempte Cooke ("Dean of Girls' Schools"') of Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass...
...poignant desolation of Novelist George Moore's The Unfilled Field, or any of the more familiar expressions of Celtic lyricism and melancholia, will easily imagine the similar lilt and dolour of Irish painting. Thus when an exhibition of contemporary Irish art opened, last week, at the Helen Hackett Galleries in Manhattan, few were surprised at the nature of the paintings.* Irishmen like Paul Henry see landscapes of mist-laden perfection and paint them so. Irishmen like famed poet-pointer AE (George William Russell) blithely romanticize the already romantic countryside. Patrick Joseph Tuohy's portraits seem both honest...