Word: helens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elliot Cabot and Miriam Hopkins play the lovers. But their ardors are scarcely as exciting as the tart philosophizing of old Mrs. Pesta, a female shard, played by Helen Westley of the Guild Board of Directors. Director Westley has acted in 37 of the Guild's 70 productions. As the mother of Susi she makes the first act so brilliant that the last two are inevitably the worse for her longer absence from the stage...
...bookshop. They argued as to whether Lord Dunsany's play The Glittering Gate was easy to act. Finding a copy of it on a shelf, they made the simplest test. Robert Edmond Jones shaped scenery from wrapping paper. Philip Moeller and Edward Goodman gestured, intoned romantic lines. Helen Westley, who happened in, was audience. From this beginning came the Washington Square Players and eventually the Theatre Guild.* Starting officially in 1919, the Guildsmen planned two plays for their first season. They estimated they would need $2,000. They got $675-revenue from advance subscriptions taken by 135 sanguine friends...
...Manhattan, two wanderlustful spinsters, Helen Calista Wilson and Dr. Elsie Reed Mitchell, last week told newsgatherers how they had tramped 7,600 mi. from "Siberia to Turkestan" equipped with...
Sued for Divorce. Mrs. Helen Louise Thomas Hays of Sullivan, Ind. ; by Will H. Hays, 49, of Manhattan, famed cinema-arbiter, U. S. Postmaster-General in the Harding cabinet. Grounds: incompatibility. They were married in 1902, have been separated for several years. Mr. Hays asked custody of Will H. Hays Jr., 14. Died. William L. Strong, 44, of Peoria, Ill., famed lightning calculator; on a rail-road viaduct in Bartonville, Ill., where he was mentally adding the figures on passing box cars for practice. Calculator Strong told builders the number of bricks needed for walls, computed cube roots...
...greater social import than the problem of the Vice President's official hostess, is the problem of night-club hostesses in free-&-easy Manhattan, where Assistant Attorney Mabel Walker Willebrandt lately lost her Prohibition cases against the two outstanding personages of nocturnal fame, Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan and Helen Morgan. Manhattanites were interested last week in the following statement by Miss Guinan...