Word: helene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question is how to get Prima Donna Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) from Manhattan to the Argentine, to fulfill an engagement in Buenos Aires. Her faded diva aunt (Helen Westley) insists that she go to Paris instead. Up from the pampas come Emissary James Guthrie (Melvyn Douglas) and his stooge, "Pancho" Brown (Stuart Erwin), who lay siege to Elsa with flowers, gifts, attentions. When Elsa discovers what seems to be a ring of cold business in Guthrie's honeydew phrases. the plot bears to the left, but the clairvoyant audience knows it will come right again...
...pretties up one of the tenements, brightens the lives of the boy's down-at-heels father (Guy Usher), his toneless, defeated mother (Marjorie Main) and the little girl in the next flat (Maureen O'Connor), who sings pathetic songs in the voice of a younger, fresher Helen Morgan. Actress Main won wide acclaim for her portrayal of "Babyface" Martin's mother in the stage and screen versions of Dead End. Cinema newcomer Maureen O'Connor is a radio veteran...
...doubtful durability as Fannie Hurst's We Are Ten and Robert Nathan's Enchanted Voyage. But with works of the stature of Douglas Southall Freeman's R. E. Lee, James's Andrew Jackson, Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England, Robert & Helen Lynd's Middle town in Transition, Sandburg's The People, Yes, Mencken's The American Language, the White House Library received a few books last week that seemed likely to outlive its present inhabitants...
...zoologist, Helen Dean King, who has been conducting rat breeding experiments since 1909, has every mutation of white or wild gray rat except a yellow rat with dark red eyes, which she expects to obtain this week...
Divorced. Clifford Victor Herbert, son of the late Composer Victor Herbert; by Helen Meher Herbert; in Los Angeles...