Word: helene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Dean Helen Taft Manning of Bryn Mawr College-isolationist sister of Presidentially ambitious Senator Robert A. Taft who last week accused Franklin D. Roosevelt of "ballyhooing" war in order to play politics (see p. 21)-urged the same committee to stiffen the present neutrality law and make it more instead of less inflexible, arch-isolationist Senator Borah demanded: "Haven't the people [of the U. S.] already made up their minds who is right and who is wrong? The world is already at war. Already things have taken place which make other nations look...
...Theatre was injected into the hearings by Actress Helen Hayes. Divesting herself of the majesty which for three years she has worn in Victoria Regina, she threw herself into the role of plain "Mrs. Charles MacArthur," mother of two."* She recalled her grandmother's stories about eight brothers & sisters around the family dinner table. "I remember that there was always room for one more. There is always room for one more†ones who have no room elsewhere." Mother MacArthur clinched her argument by saying she would gladly adopt a child sight unseen,† if assured...
There are those who would as soon miss their own weddings as a Katharine Cornell play. Her yearning, mobile face is the contemporary theatre's testament of beauty, and only Helen Hayes can challenge her as Broadway's First Lady. Having achieved her own producing company, having played Juliet-ultimate role of all English-speaking actresses-Actress Cornell offers this week, at 41, what is usually the swan song of distinguished old age: an autobiography...
...reasons Cinemactress Helen Vinson gave last December for suing Fred Perry for divorce was his insisting that she sit through all his tennis matches. Last week, after Tennist Perry had been trounced three times in a row by Donald Budge on their first joint professional tour, Miss Vinson withdrew suit, rejoined her husband...
...squash, is equivalent to three times as much straight lawn tennis. Ideal for winter exercise, it can be learned in six months, is low on breakage and not too strenuous for any active man. It has recently attracted many women players. Most notable: British Margot Lumb, who beat Tennist Helen Jacobs last fall in the women's tennis at Forest Hills. The U. S. amateur championship, contested last month in Chicago, was won by Donald Strachan of Philadelphia...