Word: helene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, wrote Columnist Billy Rose, "a daffy story popped up on my desk" (the kidney-shaped one in the office Flo Ziegfeld used to use). It seemed, wrote Rose, that somebody's spinster Aunt Helen had died, and when the minister drew back the casket lid at the funeral, what should be inside but the uniformed corpse of a two-star general? The embarrassed undertaker said they might as well go ahead with the service. Aunt Helen had apparently been buried in Arlington Cemetery that morning, and only an act of Congress could...
Innovator. In Elizabeth, N.J., police charged imaginative John Pudlack with disorderly conduct after Helen Ciuba complained that he had thrown a doghouse at her while the dog was occupying...
Cavalcade of America (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Helen Hayes as the late Feminist Carrie Chapman Catt...
...Zeena (Joan Blondell), the midway's mentalist. He plays cozy with her just long enough to swipe a pseudo-telepathic formula through which he can graduate to the big time. No. 2 is a luscious, loyal dimwit named Molly (Coleen Gray), whom he marries. No. 3 is Lilith (Helen Walker), a pseudo-psychiatrist who outsmarts him at his own racket...
...Helen Tamiris' dances are particularly fine, displaying the same blend of comedy and vigor that distinguished her choreography for "Annie Get Your Gun." Two of the best numbers display a remarkably long-limbed and proficient dancer called Laverne French, who fits neatly into the bizarre Tamiris routines. The rest of the cast does not measure up to the company this production offered in New York last year, either as actors or singers. Nonetheless, it captures the spirit of the walking-stick, the courtesy and the graceful bow, which is, in essence the spirit of "Show Boat...