Word: helene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them kid you with their humanities courses; the real dope is out now. Erich Segal has written an expose of the Iliad which offers the inside story of how Paris made it with Helen (or vice versa). And a better musical hasn't sailed to these shores since Harvard's own classical era (when Greek was mandatory, and diplomas still...
Claire Scott as Mrs. Menelaus--that's Helen of Troy to you--found the right gesture and accent for every line. She brought a polished comedienne's subtlety to a frankly slapstick part, making the most of all her songs, especially, "Your name may be Paris, (but I'll call you Gay Paree...
...Francisco's hungry i last week Sisters Mary and Helen Grandison and Cousin Dottie Webster, hips swaying under plain blue dresses, had every bottle on the bar rattling as they belted out old gospel favorites with poise and trombone clarity. The Grandisons have had little musical training. They left the sawdust trail only this year, after singing in churches all over the South, to try the nightclub circuit. The four write their own arrangements, frequently substitute new words in standard spirituals-e.g. Swing down, sweet chariot/ Stop and let me ride/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock...
Husband Jack made news enough, greeting a clutch of White House guests from Helen Keller to Negro Track Star Wilma Rudolph, who was escorted by Texan Lyndon Johnson. And Caroline was not to be forgotten: the White House announced that a special nursery school had been set up right inside the White House for her and about ten of her playmates. Wrote the Newspaper Enterprise Association's Jerry Bennett, in a story sent to 600 newspapers: "Not since Shirley Temple zoomed into international fame a quarter-century ago has an American child received so much international coverage...
Carnival! (book by Michael Stewart, based on material by Helen Deutsch; music and lyrics by Bob Merrill) sets to music the traditional Continental world of the small, bedizened, sad-eyed circus troupe-a world not of popcorn but of pony ballets, with a touch of childlike innocence redeeming its tawdriness. Carnival! is, in fact, out of the movie Lili, with a faint echo or two of Liliom; it celebrates a milieu whose romantic lure is born of its realistic hardships, a milieu almost symbolically touching for its way of suggesting the loneliness in crowds, the heartbreak in gaiety...