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...Hollywood: As a chronic stutterer who masqueraded as a deaf mute to avoid speaking, Fledgling Actor James MacArthur, 20, turned The Tongues of Angels into one of the best hours of Studio One since the rating-rickety show deserted Manhattan for Hollywood last January. The adopted son of Actress Helen Hayes and the late Play-Mright Charles (The Front Page) MacArthur, young MacArthur caught the withdrawn dignity and explosive rage of a troubled teen-ager who was befriended and helped by a farm girl (Margaret O'Brien). His acting persevered over a plot that did wonders for the hero...
...HELEN NAYMOLA...
...Level." For Atkinson, Marilyn Monroe arrived on time. Helen Hayes gave the critic a huge silver tray inscribed with the names of all 130 guests, some of whom had not spoken to each other for years. Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz composed a song for the occasion ("A critic has a mother, Just like anybody else"). Mary Martin sang I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy with Composer Richard Rodgers at the piano. Oscar Hammerstein II was master of ceremonies. In their boss's honor, Times drama staffers replated the Sunday theater section for a limited edition...
...star (6 ft. 5½ in.) at San Francisco State College. The son of a chauffeur, Johnny once took operatic coaching but prepared in college for a teaching career (English). In his spare time, he picked up pin money singing in local clubs and with a semiprofessional opera group. Helen Noga, co-owner of San Francisco's famed Black Hawk nightclub, heard him, introduced him to Columbia Records' George Avakian. His first successful single, Wonderful, Wonderful, sat around for several months before it began lighting boards in San Francisco and Boston. It climbed the charts, catapulted Johnny into...
...Died. Helen Twelvetrees (Payne), fiftyish, oldtime Hollywood leading lady (to such stars as John Barrymore, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy), who played in State's Attorney, Disgraced, The Ghost Talks; by her own hand (an overdose of barbiturates); at Olmsted Air Force Base, near Harrisburg...