Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes what's on-beat take a beating, and Broadway seem a little backward. The Golden Apple transports the Trojan War set, with considerable irreverence, to the U.S. around 1900-specifically, to a small town near Mt. Olympus, Wash. "Roughly the first half acts out the Iliad: Helen (Kay Ballard), the wife of a local dignitary, runs off with a drummer named Paris (Jonathan Lucas) and after a lot of commotion comes home to hubby. The second half acts out the Odyssey: Ulysses, a Spanish-American war veteran, imbibes city life at a neighboring seaport, goes to a water...
Cora Du Bois, an anthropologist, will succeed the retiring Helen Maud Cam as Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor, the College and Radcliffe announced yesterday...
...resemblance to Garland is no accident. Marti Stevens has been collecting Garland records for a long time, and comparing them with records of the Prohibition Era's Helen Morgan, one of Marti's earliest collecting enthusiasms. She decided that her two favorites had the same vocal knack: "A kind of heartbreak, over-the-rainbow. it's-got-to-happen-tomorrow quality. It kills people. It always kills me." She began to try for the same thing in her own singing...
...Movie Magnate Nicholas M. Schenck. She never got over the procession of show-business stars who came visiting at the Schenck household when Marti was in pigtails. "I just sat in a corner and watched those wonderful people do their tricks." In her teens, she started to collect Helen Morgan records...
...close of her academic career--for she must retire this June--Helen Cam surveys a scholarly past filled with the sense of her own growth. Almost half a century ago she backed away from humdrum Victorianism into a medieval world. "I was just a regular romantic," she recalls. Today, her historical knowledge permeates her speech and the arguments with which she defends her deeply held political opinions. Although raised in a Conservative household, she joined the Labor party and stumped the countryside making speeches for the candidates--it was her job to hold the crowd until the great man arrived...