Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Admire Him." Knowland attended the University of California, came home after 3½ years with an A.B., an executive job with the Tribune-and a wife. Characteristically, he had known Helen Herrick since the sixth grade, had gone with her for eight years, bought a ring, made careful arrangements and then-on New Year's Eve, 1926-eloped...
...strange sight. He had put on weight in the Army (the harder he works, the more he eats and the rounder he gets), and now, with no time to waste on clothes-buying, he tried to stuff himself back into his prewar civvies. For months, until Helen Knowland finally took charge and ordered him some new suits, Washington held its breath in anticipation of the occasion when California's young Republican Senator William Fife Knowland would literally bust his britches...
...staging this Old Vic's Troilus, Tyrone Guthrie has swept the décor and atmosphere of the play some 30 centuries forward. He has boldly evoked an Edwardian world full of prance and panoply, his Trojans very British, his Greeks very German. He has shown a siren Helen lolling against a cream-and-gold piano; he makes Pandarus frock-coated and effeminate, Thersites a disheveled cockney war photographer. He might find license for his anachronisms in the play itself, where Hector quotes Aristotle...
Wide Wide World (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). "A Woman's Story," with Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Margaret Mead, Marian Anderson...
...actors, in general, make good use of their melodramatic opportunities. Yul Brynner is gloweringly glamorous as the villain. Helen Hayes is effective as the Empress, but her work, like much about this picture, has been scanted by the inept direction of Anatole Litvak. Director Litvak made his worst mistake in connection with Ingrid Bergman. Her acting is competent, but only now and then toward the end of the picture, almost as if by accident, can the moviegoer see what he probably will want most of all to see on the screen: the fact that, seven years after her abdication...