Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Celebrities who Mr. Schuyler says write their own stories are Robert T. Jones, Mary K. Browne, Helen Wills. Miss Wills also illustrates her stories, though artists have remarked that her drawings might sometimes profit by ghostly...
...Mariners; Alfred Lunt, for his work in Juarez and Maximilian, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Second Man. Actresses honorably mentioned in the critics' ballots: Alice Brady (Sour Grapes, The Witch, Lady Alone, The Thief), Ruth Gordon (Saturday's Children), Rose McClendon (In Abraham's Bosom), Helen Menken (The Captive), Ethel Barrymore (The Constant Wife), Lynn Fontanne (Pygmalion, The Second Man), Jane Cowl (The Road To Rome), Blanche Yurka (The Squall). Actors honorably mentioned: Walter Huston (The Barker), Frank Wilson (In Abraham's Bosom), Morgan Farley (An American Tragedy), Lee Tracey (Broadway), Holbrook Blinn (The Play...
Madame Wants No Children is a German treatment of a French foible. That it bubbles without fuming is gratifying to audiences who are waiting to see Herr Alexander Korda (director) and Frau Marie Corda (actress)* in a forthcoming screen version of The Private Life of Helen of Troy. The heroine of Madame Wants No Children is a newlywed French wife whom the bleak sphinx, Venetian gondolas and an uxorious spouse cannot dislodge from night clubs. Even at home in Paris her life is a succession of jazz blares, pale lights and glittering stuffed shirts. Eventually, however, she joggles down...
...Pearson Wells of Detroit is no daughter but a step-daughter of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. Se was before her marriage Miss Helen C. Pillsbury, daughter of Mrs. Kate S. Pillsbury, of Milwaukee (both second cousin and second wife of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis). Mrs. Edward W. Bok is the only daughter, only child of Publisher Curtis.-ED. Artist Praised...
Conspicuous, during the last fortnight, have been two minor lawn tennis tournaments in England, wherein the leading amateur women racquet-wielders of the world were thoroughly trounced by a modest 22-year-old, Helen Wills. In the North London finals, she defeated Elizabeth Ryan (U. S. ranking No. 2), 6-2, 6-2. In the Kent semifinals, Miss Wills ran burly Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mailory (U. S. ranking No. 1) around the court for only 23 minutes, disposing of her, 6-0, 6-1. Next day, that skilled tactician and Wimbledon champion, Mrs. L. A. Godfree (the onetime Kitty McKane...