Word: helene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bungo stuff even in those early days, soon made the club popular with the better type of bootleggers and gangsters of the Prohibition era. Joe Frisco was M.C., and to sing his song. Billy hired a chorus girl with a voice as hot and blue as a gas flame-Helen Morgan...
...Nebraska in the early days of the Scott Fitzgerald era, sang briefly in Chicago, made a stack of phonograph records that became standard fraternity-house equipment across the U.S. For the next ten years, she was the nation's leading torch singer, rivaled only by the late Helen Morgan (with whom she once split top billing in the Follies). Coonskin-clad Yale students mobbed her, Broadway toasted her, Hollywood beckoned. She was the top singer in radio when a flap-eared stripling named Crosby was singing in a trio...
...What's the price on these two dresses?" Vaughn asked mistress of ceremonies Helen Damon afterwards. "I really don't know," was the cool reply...
...billed stars of the production, Helen McCloskey and Ted Allegretti were expected to--and did--carry the weight. Mrs. McCloskey started out with such speed that she swallowed many of her lines; as she developed the part of Juno she caught some of the almost cruel indomitability with which she holds her rotting family together. She never approached, though, the real intensity which the role offers, her famous closing speech in particular falling below standard in what was evidently an attempt to avoid repetition of style...
Theodore Allegretti '47 as "Captain" Jack Boyle; Helen McCloskey as Juno Boyle; Robert C. Seaver '50 as Johnny Boyle; Barbara Nathan, Radcliffe '48, as Mary Boyle; Walter Frank '49, as "Joxer" Daly; Mary Flannery as Mrs. Mary Madigan; Christopher Martin '49 as "Needles" Nugent...