Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS- Barrie's depth and delicacy beautifully revived with Helen Hayes...
...when a female child was born to Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Wills in Centreville, Alameda County, Calif. Sleep- simple food-outdoor exercise-her father had used the phrases before. He used them on his patients, and pretty soon he was able to move to Berkeley and send Helen east to school at Hopkins Hall (near Bennington, Vt.). She was still very small when the War started, and one year she came home for the summer holidays to find the house strangely empty. Her father had gone to France. When, two years later, he came back, she had grown...
...evening over a cigar he suggested that Dr. Wills let Helen enter the girls' tournament-"just to see how far she would get." She won this tournament, the Bay Counties. Next year she won the state championship. When she was 16 she went east and won the girl's national. She still had her hair down, two thick brown ropes that gently flogged her shoulders as she moved after the ball. In 1922 she played through all the important tournaments, won the doubles with Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, and gave Molla Mailory a run for the singles...
...young man in a Panama, who had been staring for fifteen minutes with a sort of scholarly zeal, as if, he seemed to say, her face reminded him of someone. As she passed through the ticket lines he turned again, pointed his finger, suddenly and rudely exclaimed: "Helen Wills...
Oriental royalty in the person of Prince Yasuhito Chichibuno-miya, second son of the Mikado, deigned to dine last week with able Californian hostess Mrs. Newton Booth Knox at London. Present also was able Californian tennis player Helen Wills...