Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when some?* like your Mrs. Helen Hoffman (TIME, April 12, LETTERS) accuses us married workers of lack of respectability, I'd like to commit mayhem on her. Poor, coddled hausfrau! Perhaps a man stupid enough to marry such a nixnox has been superseded over his rut by an alert married woman worker. Yet his "missus" need not squall...
...HELEN WUENSCH (Worker...
...Maude Adams. This production was originally scheduled for Laurette Taylor and Godfrey Tearle, and was to be followed by The Admirable Crichton. It was offered to Grace George, who with remarkable insight suggested that the play would be most interesting if done by one of the new generation. Helen Hayes was consequently selected for the part, and probably made the greatest impression of her relatively brief career...
...spent five years at the Perkins Institute, Boston, where he was Helen Keller's contemporary and friend. Casting about for an occupation, he tried music, piano-tuning, chair-caning, but resolved finally upon lecturing and poetry. Recognition was slow. He once received $1.65 for a talk delivered to 13 people. His poem, "How Massa Linkum Came," later a popular favorite, was refused by 17 editors before the Springfield Republican accepted...
...Private Life of Helen of Troy?John Erskine ($2.50). Conversational comedy; witty, charming...