Word: helens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burton is cast in the title role of the play and his wife is cast as Helen of Troy. Rehearsals will begin in January...
...GIFT OF JOY by Helen Hayes. 254 pages. Evans-Lippincott...
...minds of U.S. theatergoers, both Katharine Cornell and Lynn Fontanne may have an equal claim to the title of Queen Emeritus of the American stage. But among the general public, there is no question that it is Helen Hayes who holds the title, for Helen Hayes storms more barns, writes more magazine articles and, more important, has shared both her joys and her sorrows with a wider audience. Now she has published a volume of reminiscences and reflections. She includes tributes to Shakespeare and her bibulous, ebullient husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur; paeans to the pleasures of walking, gardening, solitude, work...
What, already? Suddenly here was growing Child Actress Patty Duke, 18, breathlessly reporting that she is going to marry New York Television Director Harry Falk, 32. Which made everyone feel a little middle-aged and sigh about all the years since Patty was a sensitive little girl playing Helen Keller at age seven in Broadway's The Miracle Worker. Actually, it's only been six years, but the girl now has a large movie contract and a television show of her own. Patty just kept telling everybody about "the crush I had on him two years...
...Prince Rainier first revealed their engagement, and that Ernest Hemingway and Louis Untermeyer resorted to fisticuffs over some forgotten difference of literary opinion. For a quarter of a century, everyone who was not just an everyone dropped in. J. Edgar Hoover, Joan Crawford, Brenda Frazier, Rocky Marciano, Orson Welles, Helen Hayes, George Jean Nathan, Mary Martin, Tommy Manville, James Farley, Tallulah Bankhead, a freshman Congressman named Jack Kennedy-all came to be swept past the velvet rope...