Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russ Morgan Show (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS). New musical show, with Helen O'Connell. Guest: Hoagy Carmichael...
...things in a generally dull TV week were two plays, one a drama of life, the other a drama of death. Anita Loos's Happy Birthday on NBC's Producers' Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., E.D.T.) starred Betty Field in the role made famous on Broadway by Helen Hayes. It is the bittersweet tale of how a spinster librarian goes into a bar in pursuit of happiness and finds life and liberty there as well. Betty Field did a creditable job as the librarian in a long and unlikely drunk scene, but was hardly good enough to save...
...Helen Hayes, actress D.F.A...
Survival of a Campus. The Japanese tried to control Ewha by forbidding the teaching of English and Christianity and by deporting the school's foreign teachers. But, says Ewha's President Helen Kim, "they had a hard time. The Japanese hoped we would rather die out. But we didn't die." In 1950 the Communists ran into much the same situation. They took over the school's buildings, but by the time they did. President Kim and 900 students had fled to set up shop in 50 tents on a hillside above Pusan...
Taking a Chance on Love (Helen Forrest; Capitol). A popular songbird of the swing era who starred with the Goodman, Shaw and James bands, Forrest, after a long time in the woods, swings back in fine condition. She sounds smoother and more confident; she still has plenty of life and the same sweetly nasal voice...