Word: helens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Omnibus (Sun. 4:30 p.m., CBS). The Ford Foundation's new 90-minute experimental show with Helen Hayes in William Saroyan's The Christmas Tie, a Lincoln drama produced by Richard de Rochemont. Moderator: Alistair Cooke...
...believe, is his latest published long poem, The Trojan Horse. In it, he has overcome his inability to write on current political threats without beclouding his work with fiery fist-shaking. Following the ancient tragedy, he depicts the horse as a menace, which only a mad girl and Helen realize. The people, confused by the symbol for which it represents, denounce the two women and admit the horse to Troy. MacLeish is one of few poets who has expressed a modern dilemma with such vitality, deftness, and fearlessness. If the task of poetry is to create or recreate life...
Leverett House winner was Mrs. "Millie" DiCarlo, of E entry, who keeps a schedule of each students' classes and never lets him sleep through a class or exam. In Kirkland, the choice was Miss Helen "Queenie" Anderson, of I entry, who has loaned her boys money when needed, taught them neatness "Through pleas, cajolery and imprecations" and and helped them find dates...
...hope. The bill was tighter, better edited and smaller. There were fewer features, including Menotti's miniature opera, The Telephone, and the first of a five-part Abraham Lincoln story written by James (The Quiet One) Agee and directed by Documentary Producer Louis de Rochemont. New experiences forthcoming: Helen Hayes in J. M. Barrie's The Twelve-Pound Look; Metropolitan Opera productions...
...time it landed 66 days later at Provincetown, Mass. MGM, attempting to fill in the historical gap, has drawn on what studio publicists call new, revealing research as well as on Ernest Gebler's imaginative 1950 novel and on some pure invention by Screenwriter Helen Deutsch. The resulting movie pictures the Atlantic crossing of the Pilgrim Fathers as a combination of storms above deck and stormy passions below deck...