Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Movies will be shown of Tilden and Hunter, American men stars who are trying to regain America's tennis prestige, and of Cochet, Bragnon and Borotra, French internationalists and holders of the Davis Cup. Miss Helen Wills, queen of the world's tennis courts, will also be shown in action. Coach Harry Cowles, coach of University and Freshman tennis, is to talk on tennis and explain the various styles...
...Helen was positive that the Chief Justice had said "preserve, maintain and defend," not "preserve, maintain and protect." Finally the movietone was invoked to settle the question. Its sound record proved Helen right, the Chief Justice wrong, on both counts. Mr. Taft, highly diverted, said he didn't think it was important. Perhaps, after he has sworn in nine presidents, like Chief Justice Marshall, or even seven, like Chief Justice Taney, his memory of the lines will not fail Chief Justice Taft...
Meanwhile Helen has become Walden's most distinguished pupil. A smooth-haired, frank-faced girl, she likes "any outdoor sport and taking care of babies." She enjoys "most any type book, particularly college stories." She also says: "I would like to be a high school teacher when I have completed high school and college...
...story itself is equally divided between fact and fable. That part of it which has historic basis deals with the young monarch's campaign against Darius and the Persians. To this the playwright had added a faintly Freudian obsession on Alexander's part for Helen of Troy, and fulfillment in the arms of Darius's young and neglected wife. The two leading roles are well enough played by Henry Hull and A. E. Anson, who might have made a very fine play of it hadthe author everdecided what he wanted...
...Died. Helen Resch, 20, Viennese actress, mistress of Prince Ernest Windischgraetz, 24, grandson of the late Emperor Franz Josef; by suicide (gas), in Vienna. The Prince's engagement to an opulent aristocrat had just been announced. Miss Resch also asphyxiated her baby, her mother...