Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Helen Wills, California tennis girl, as head of the sports division of the Women's Committee. Reason: "Youth's earnest desire to be of service...
...viewed from the solstice. Beatrice Lillie will play in This Year of Grace and the Gershwins will supply songs in a new show for her old playmate Gertrude Lawrence. A play from Floyd Dell's The Unmarried Father will be called The Little Accident. The Private Life of Helen of Troy will at last be made public on the stage. Sam H. Harris, no relative of Jed, will exhibit the Marx Brothers, Harpo (mum), Groucho (chattering), Chico (wop) and Zeppo in Animal Crackers. Arthur Hammerstein plans a "musicalization" of Alice in Wonderland. George C. Tyler will produce Macbeth with...
Flip! The first service was spun. Into action sprang Helen Wills and Mrs. J. Saunders Taylor in the 41st annual women's championship tournament at Forest Hills, L. I. Twenty-two minutes later they shook hands, Miss Wills a 6-0, 6-1 victor over Mrs. Taylor...
Died. Mrs. Helen Costigan Cohan, 74, retired actress, mother of famed Actor-producer George M. Cohan; of stomach trouble; in Monroe, N. Y. The vaudeville team of "The Four Cohans" (Jere J. Cohan, Mrs. Cohan, son George, daughter Josephine) was famed in the '90s; a Chicago theatre is named for them. George M. Cohan is the only survivor...
...Married. Helen Hayes, famed & winsome actress (What Every Woman Knows, Coquette); and Charles MacArthur, playwright (Lulu Belle, The Front Page, with Ben Hecht); in Manhattan. Of the wedding party were Critic Alexander Woollcott, Novelist Ben Hecht...