Word: helens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Helen Gahagan Douglas, 46, once named one of the twelve most beautiful women in the U.S., former actress and singer, who left the boards for the soapbox during the depression. Her last Broadway hit: Tonight or Never...
Happy Birthday (by Anita Loos; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) shows what a frightening assortment of drinks in a Newark ginmill did to-and for-a prim, plain-looking little librarian (Helen Hayes). On any realistic basis, abstemious Addie Bemis, loaded with pink ladies, whiskey, sloe gin and champagne, would doubtless be violently sick by 10 o'clock; but Happy Birthday is far from realistic, and by 11 o'clock gaily gyrating Addie has copped herself a husband...
Happy Birthday is sentimental rubbish. Not only does the author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes convince nobody that gentlemen prefer librarians, but she has frantically tossed into the pot almost everything except good dialogue. That the pot ever boils is due to the presence and prestige of Helen Hayes...
...STORIES (227 pp.)-George and Helen Papashvily-Harper...
...they became quite unalike: Joseph entered politics, George entered the U.S. In 1945, the Book-of-the-Month Club selected Anything Can Happen-a whimsical, owlish account in Georgian English of George's 20 years of life as an immigrant, dictated by himself, set down by his wife, Helen. Today, Helen runs the Moby Dick Bookshop in Allentown, Pa., and George spends "part of each day at a granite quarry working on an animal figure he designed to commemorate the plight of the world during the darkest days of the German advance...