Word: helene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week called "How Long How Long Blues" and "Boogie-Woogie" that swings quietly . . . Jimmy Dorsey celebrated his tenth anniversary about a month ago. You'd think he would have run out of ideas by now, but his alto chorus on "All of Me" is really one for the books. Helen O'Connell's vocal shows much improvement, being more like Mildred Bailey, but is still too stiff. Listen to Bobby Byrn backing Helen's vocal, and figure out whether he plays trombone or trumpet...
...exploded story that Warren Gamaliel Harding had Negro blood; 2) faked a Wilson endorsement of James Middleton Cox for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1924. And, though by U. S. etiquette a President's wife is usually as sacred as a President, in the Washington smartchat The Senator Helen Essary, wife of the Baltimore Sun's longtime Washington Correspondent Jesse Frederick Essary, coolly observed: "History has marked Woodrow Wilson as a hero. The intimate story of his public and personal . . . life should not have been written by a frivolous wife...
...courtship of the third President of the U. S. to woo and win in the White House.* began when he met Mrs. Galt, who was brought to the White House one day by the President's Cousin Helen Bones. They had a laugh together over her muddy shoes, his disheveled golf suit. Later she joined the family circle when Woodrow Wilson read aloud, went for automobile rides with him and Miss Bones. Barely two months later when the President proposed marriage, she was so surprised that she blurted: "Oh, you can't love...
...Broadway showered so many actors with superlatives and exclamation points. Not only have rockets flared for such proven performers as Judith Anderson, Raymond Massey, Maurice Evans; such expert musicomedians as Beatrice Lillie, Victor Moore, Ethel Merman. Rockets have also flared in more unexpected places: For new stars on Broadway: Helen Claire in Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Robert Morley in Oscar Wilde. For a musicomedian who became overnight a magnificent dramatic actress: Ethel Waters. For a dramatic actor who became overnight a triumphant musicomedian : Walter Huston. For a fine actress who at last found the right play: Tallulah Bankhead...
...spots. A grand idea:--Goodman started the breakdown of the Jim Crow traditions in regard to colored musicians playing with white, and it now looks as though a mixed band may have some chance for success. . . . Jimmy Dorsey's newest disc, "It's All Yours" has a vocal by Helen O'Connell that, despite the handicap of bad key, shows much improvement. Catch her last two measures and Herb Haymer's fragment at the end . . . Decca records, having lost Jimmy Lunceford, goes out and digs up a band by the name of Floyd Ray that not only plays like Lunceford...