Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only noticeable song in the show, "I Wanna Be Loved by You," kept bubbling out of Helen Kane. Helen Kane puts a teasing twist in her delivery of "But-dut-de-dut" or "Vo-do-de-o," which she practiced first in a single act in vaudeville, later in Shubert musical comedy and most recently in Publix Theatres, with the inexpert assistance of Paul...
...Jessie Bonstelle. In this theatre many good actors have played and Miss Bonstelle, a kindly, able, loquacious lady, is regarded as an expert impresario. It is said that she taught Alice Brady how to act and other able mimes-Ben Lyons, Ann Harding, James Rennie, Katherine Cornell, Helen Menken-have appeared in her productions. Last spring Jessie Bonstelle organized a drive for subscribers in order to convert her playhouse into...
Variable Sex. Twenty-six women read papers at Glasgow; 14 were botanists. One of the botanists, Professor Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan of the University of London, brought her audience to sharp attention by announcing discovery of four different sexes in toadstools. Their differences are so slight that they can be called only plus or minus. Each type can breed with the other three and, under some circumstances, with its own kind. The differences seem to result from the differences in food substances absorbed by the parent fungi. The toadstool sexes are variable. If such is true of fungi...
...Helen Wills & Helen Jacobs have much in common. Jacobs once lived under the same roof that sheltered Wills when she was born; their first names are the same, they are California tennis misses. But in trading drives from the baseline neither Jacobs nor any other woman has the ability of Wills. Valiantly but with many an error Jacobs sped the ball toward her opponent's backcourt boundary, thereby failed to win from Wills the national women's singles championship. After the match Wills rested in the Forest Hills, L. I., clubhouse, resumed play. Paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss...
...Manhattan, a Mrs. Elizabeth Uliano, junk dealer; her three daughters Helen Uliano, Mrs. Tessie Balletti and Mrs. Marie Giordano; her granddaughter Elsie Frontali, were all arrested and fined for scuttling through a department store like a pack of rats, stealing whatever they could lay their hands...