Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief desire, poor man, is to make a good impression. Poorly paid, he hints at his rich friends; insignificant, he talks of the great; uneducated, he prattles of Shakespeare and quotes frightful Latin. Such men invariably fool some people; although he disgusts Mrs. Fisher (Helen Lowell) he wins the heart of her daughter Amy (Wintfred Wellington); and though the Fishers all think Amy a nit-wit to marry him. Piper proves, by his efforts to save their talented son from being swindled out of his rights as an inventor, that he is the best friend of the family...
...President Coolidge appointed Miss Jessie Dell, Georgia Democrat, for 25 years an employe of the War Department, to be a member of the U. S. Civil Service Commission succeeding the late Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener who gave her brain to Cornell (TIME, Aug. 17, Sept. 14, WOMEN...
...gorgeous fabric of southern dialog, a true echo of the indomitable manhood of What Price Glory, a thrilling love scene, and some moments of shrewd excitement. The play will undoubtedly remain as a valuable, if fanciful, page of U. S. history. The acting of Rudolph Cameron and Helen Chandler in the chief parts was more than satisfactory. And the play is probably the only one ever produced through which the difficult southern dialect was consistently and convincingly maintained...
...Helen Hamilton Gardener, an author and the only female member of the U. S. Civil Service Commission, recently died (TIME, Aug. 17). Among other things which she left in her will was her brain, bequeathed to the Cornell Brain Association to prove her life-long contention that the brain of a woman is not inherently inferior to that...
...demands of drama were acceded to in focusing primary interest on the lovers. Helen Gahagan was the girl, the astonishingly beautiful Helen Gahagan who so steadily resembles Ethel Barrymore, possibly imitates her. Alison...