Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imposing work was completed in 1911 when the late U.S. Composer Charles Ives was 37. Its serene and majestic first movement is the most appealing, but its allegro gets involved in a struggle between sprightly and weighty themes. The finale, again, is flowingly introspective. On an Overtone LP, Soprano Helen Boatwright performs Ives's 24 Songs. The selections span nearly the entire period of Ives's creative life. They show him as a romantic in spirit, a modern in terseness and detail...
Though it ultimately achieves a kind of wry grandeur, the play does so on its own ironic rather than on any customary dramatic turns. Tiger displays a charming loquacity, a dawdling relentlessness. Helen must chatter and Hecuba sniff, and there are little vaudevilles on the difficulty of cursing well, little broadsides on a bard's-eye view of war. If in some sense a protest against war, the play is much more a lament for war's seeming inevitability. Like all masters of humane irony, all practitioners of philosophic high comedy, Giraudoux pierces to a tragic fundamental...
...news and human interest. When Arthur Godfrey fired Baritone Julius La Rosa, Ed had the young singer on his show the same week ("There's nothing personal in it-if Arthur got fired, I'd hire him"). The human interest touches are usually emotional. Sullivan presented Helen Hayes shortly after the tragic polio death of her 19-year-old daughter, Mary MacArthur; Broadway Director Josh Logan (South Pacific), who had suffered a breakdown, spoke feelingly on Ed's show about the problems of mental health. Observes Ed: "It's things like these that people remember about...
...finally becoming the sports editor of the Item at $12 a week. Ed next moved to the Hartford Post and at last made the grade as a Manhattan sportswriter on the New York Evening Mail, where he says he coined the phrase "Little Miss Poker Face" for Tennis Champion Helen Wills. In his early days as a reporter, Ed was frequently mistaken for a rising young actor named Humphrey Bogart, who also had high cheekbones and a deadpan expression...
Married. Lieut. General Sir Alexander Hood, 67, Governor of Bermuda from 1949 to April 1955; and Helen Winifred Wilkinson, 50; both for the second time; in Reno...