Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After all these years--here it is; the well nigh perfect musical comedy. They may come bigger, but they don't come better than "Peggy Ann." The Fields-Rogers-Hart combination was responsible for the book and score; Helen Ford and Lulu McConnell, aided by a clever cast and a slim and agile chorus, romp through the zany-like plot; and the audience has a simply swell time the entire evening...
...music? Perhaps no song in the show equals the "Here in My arms" of "Dearest Enemy' but then, few songs could. "Where's That Rainbow?" has a nice lilt and good lyrics: "A Tree in A Park" sounded awfully good to us but then Helen Ford sang it and as far as we're concerned she could sing anything and we'd ask for more. No criticism would be complete without several bravas for Lulu McConnell: she may be vulgar but she's very funny and she has a laugh that does things to your vertebrae and almost shatters...
...other six are: Lady Astor, the Duchess of Atholl, Miss Margaret Bondfield, Miss Susan Lawrence, Mrs. Helen Philipson, Miss Ellen C. Wilkinson...
COQUETTE-In which love and death shatter the fancies of a fickle woman. Helen Hayes is invaluable...
...Paterson, N. J., two young teachers wanted to get married to two young men. The teachers, Helen C. Friedman and Marguerite B. Ellis, asked for permission to take honeymoons after their weddings. At this, there was turmoil among the members of the School Board. "Rubbish!" shouted one member. "Do taxpayers like myself pay cash so that young women, mere chits, may go off and enjoy themselves?" Said Commissioner John Grimshaw Jr., a bachelor: "They can get married after school-hours, whether we like it or not. It would be petty business to refuse to let them take their honeymoons...