Word: helene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After reading your article on Allentown, Pa. Call's Columnist Pumpernickle Bill, I realized that excepting the novels of Helen Martin and Elsie Singmaster, little or no attention has been paid to the peculiar Pennsylvania "Dutch" (or German...
...featured in a recent issue of Vogue magazine. Taking their cue from those unsung, expert, wholesale dress manufacturers of Manhattan's 7th Avenue who were asked last winter to guess what women would be wearing this fall, Hollywood designers Omar (né Alexander) Kiam, Irene and Helen Taylor turned out most of the dresses, gowns and coats for Vogues of 1938. Manhattan's supersmart John-Frederics and Sally Victor did the hats, Jaeckel the furs. Through the Modern Merchandising Bureau, 52 dresses, 24 hats and various accessories shown in the picture will be on sale in first-class...
...Died. Helen Maud Holt, Lady Tree, 72, actress, widow of the late, great actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree; after an operation; in London...
...Odyssey) and a low hill in Turkey, within sight of the Dardanelles, are all that scholars and poets have had to go on. Laura Riding's A Trojan Ending, not to be confused with such mere literary romances as John Erskine's The Private Life of Helen of Troy, probes the dusty pile of Homeric legend with the findings of modern scholarship, discovers in it not a prehistoric frieze of barbarous "heroes" but a valuable prototype of the modern world...
...legend that turns up many a psychological find, pieces together many a broken sherd of human nature. Laura Riding does not tamper with the main outline of Troy's well-known story. But she finds the clue to the Trojan War not in Paris' seduction of Helen but in the opposing temperaments of the Greeks, whose civilization is on the make, and the Trojans, whose civilization is (in the best sense) finished. She makes her mouth piece-heroine a character unmentioned by Homer-Cressida, daughter of the Trojan's Chief Priest of Apollo, ill-famed in literature...