Word: helene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Helen Choate Bell prize of $400, for the best essay on a subject in American Literature, divided between Howard F. Schomer '37, of Oak Park, Illinois, and William E. Rowley '37, of Newton Centre...
...amusing story by Helen Meinardi on which I Met Him in Paris is based, the Swiss interlude was a minor incident. Adroitly magnified in Claude Binyon's adaptation, it covers the subject of playing in the snow as thoroughly as an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog, and to much better effect as entertainment. For the huge white panels of snow-covered mountains against which the Swiss sequences in the story are outlined by the camera, Director Wesley Ruggles took his whole cast and crew of 250 not to the Alps but to Sun Valley. Idaho. There, in a fold...
...Actress Helen Hayes (Victoria Regina) worded her address of welcome solemnly: "The Council feels that perhaps the theatre has been backward in meeting new conditions, in adapting its methods to a changed and changing world. It may be that [workers in the theatre] have not been sufficiently wide awake; they have not seized or created opportunities to resort to strategy and salesmanship; to develop new audiences; to stimulate dramatic output and to reshape the physical conditions in existing theatre. Much ground may have been lost but one proven fact remains and that fact is thoroughly encouraging: THE DEMAND FOR DRAMA...
White-maned Walter Damrosch rehearsed and conducted his opera with great vigor, took curtain calls along with Poet Guiterman. In a cast that sang as freshly as any this season, particular credit went to Helen Traubel of St. Louis for a powerful-voiced Mary. Arthur Carron sang Philip expressively, looked so little the romantic part that forthright Critic Danton Walker of the Daily News felt his sentence of banishment should have been a bread-&-water diet...
Dreamy-eyed from hearing the great Enzo Curti (Gigli) sing on the radio, Helen Carlton (Joan Gardner) has a shipboard romance with First Officer Hugh Anderson (Ivan Brandt) on the way to the U. S. Believing malicious gossip, she jilts Officer Anderson on arrival, rebounds into the arms of Tenor Curti, whom she meets after finding his motherless son (Richard Gofe) in the hotel corridor. Married, they go off on a world tour which gives opportunity for a sound montage of excerpts from nine of the great operas. In London comes the inevitable second encounter with First Officer Anderson...