Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defeat of Helen Wills is a most fortunate occurrence, internationally speaking. For the first time since the war. America has lost decisively and with no particularly gracious air. By a score of 6-3, 8-6, France has regained that amour propre so necessary for an independent nation...
Last week Helen Wills (if it is true that she is keeping a diary) continued her entries in the red morocco notebook (TIME, Feb. 8), somewhat as follows...
...Theatre Guild has staged this weird adventure with all the cunning resources at its command. Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Blanche Yurka, George Gaul, Helen Westley, Dwight Frye, Albert Bruning and other notables head an apparently endless cast. Acting, setting and direction are superb. Goat Song can be set down as an inspired attempt to cage within the worldly walls of the theatre an intangible and hopelessly unanswerable abstraction...
...Perhaps Helen Wills is keeping a diary of what she does these sunny days at Cannes. It is rumored that she makes entries every evening in a large notebook bound in red morocco and fitted with a silver clasp-lock, whose contents a U. S. publisher has contracted to bring out in the fall. If Miss Wills is really writing a diary, her many admirers are likely to read it more for its probable charm than in the expectation of finding out anything new about her, for the newspapers have reported her activities so elaborately that what she puts...
...Helen Menken played the part, the same Helen Menken who for these many seasons has been playing the downtrodden French girl in Seventh Heaven. The new part is far more difficult and not so artfully woven round with that mysteriously effective element known as "theatre." Neither the play nor the actress was as excellent as many people hoped they would...