Word: helene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convivial until he married Gladys Helen Hughes of the Library of Congress staff last year, Dewey Short now spends most of his evenings at home preparing lectures to supplement his salary. His chief political cross: his brother Leonard, who was killed trying to break jail in Muskogee, Okla. after having been convicted for a grocery store robbery...
...election-night ball in the mining town of Silver Bow, Mont, in the year 1904, the picture traces the lives of half-a-dozen of the guests, ending, for no particular reason, when they meet again to get the early returns in 1908. Ostensibly its three heroines are Louise, Helen, and Grace Elliott, daughters of Silver Bow's druggist, but before much footage has slid through the projection machines, it becomes apparent that Helen (Anita Louise) and Grace (Jane Bryan) function chiefly to preserve a semblance of the sorority pattern that served Warners so well in Four Daughters...
...Victoria Regina, starring Helen Hayes, ran for 517 performances on Broadway in 1935-37, last season went on tour. Reopening last week in Manhattan for a limited run, it once more drew excited full-length reviews from the critics, who hailed it as "one of the classics of the American theatre," saluted Actress Hayes as "the queen of acting...
...Connecticut weekend party comes Invader Cindy Lou Bethany (Helen Claire), a Georgia Congressman's daughter and blood kin of Culpeppers, Covingtons, Albemarles. She comes with a Hollywood director to meet a Hollywood producer and nail the screen role of Velvet O'Toole, the Confederate heroine of the national bestseller Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Prattling and coy, she comes, with a hoopskirt, a guitar and blatant pride of race, smack into the presence of the most brutal wisecrackers and merciless limbchoppers in Yankeedom...
Died. Con Conrad (real name: Conrad K. Dober), 49, famed songwriter (Barney Google, Memory Lane, Margie), divorced husband of Actress Francine Larrimore, discoverer of Sob-singer Helen Morgan and Crooner Bing Crosby; after long illness; in Van Nuys, Calif...