Word: helens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOWOFF. A North Philadelphia family is forced to change gears when a monkey wrench, in the form of a loudmouth son-in-law (Clayton Corzatte), is thrown into the domestic proceedings. Helen Hayes leads the APA repertory company in a skillful revival of George Kelly's 43-year-old comedy...
...SHOW-OFF is George Kelly's comedy of 1924, but it is datelessly entertaining. Its hero (Clayton Corzatte) is a braying, backslapping braggart with the laugh of a hyena and the grandiloquent transparency of a born liar. The actress who commandeers the stage in this APA revival is Helen Hayes in her best role since Queen Victoria...
...they did, Helen Vlachos, the defiant Athens conservative columnist and publisher who closed her papers rather than submit to junta censorship, dyed her hair, evaded the guards that kept her under house arrest, and escaped to London, saying: "I felt I could be more useful to the Greek cause abroad...
...work: The Sunday Times, which was interested, was dissuaded by a threat of prosecution under the British government's Official Secrets Act. In view of the lack of buyers, Philby proposed to hand over his masterwork for free if the British would agree to release Peter and Helen Kroger, two convicted Soviet spies now serving 20-year terms in Wormwood Scrubs. His generosity went unappreciated. The British turned him down...
...place than most to meet a widowed man-and a possible suitor. When she approaches one slightly retiring fellow, played by Martin Balsam, the dialogue casts its mood so well that it seems perfectly reasonable when she perches on his wife's tombstone and does her imitation of Helen Morgan singing a blues song. In the end, when he gently rebuffs her, she bravely goes off in search of another live one. In TV's "black week," Paths was the brightest Christmas gift...