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...beat both Louise Brough and Darlene Hard to win the Essex County Invitational tournament in Manchester, Mass. She may not yet be close to the steady, spectacular game that was the hallmark of women's tennis in the days of Suzanne Lenglen and Molla Mallory, of Helen Wills Moody and Helen Jacobs. The champions of a few years ago-Pauline Betz, Doris Hart, Maureen Connolly-could probably have beaten her. But at an age when all the other topflighters are slipping downhill or have retired (e.g., Maureen Connolly, Shirley Fry), Althea is improving steadily...
Priscilla Foley skillfully portrays Elizabeth Stone's variety of emotions and dignity. Betty Black and Henry Mann decrease the smoothness of the performance by muffing lines; but Linda Gitter as Helen Halsey adds brashness, and Robert Dargie's Col. Keogh and Constance Walsh's Sally add color, humor and vitality...
...Today the Churches of Christ number some 1,200,000 baptized members in 15,000 fully autonomous churches. Brother Young is the nearest thing to a binding force among them; he edits Twentieth Century Christian, a monthly magazine promoting Churches of Christ beliefs, writes and edits (with his wife Helen) a bimonthly of daily devotional reading called Power for Today, and a weekly column for the Lubbock Avalanche Journal. Next week he leaves Lubbock for Los Angeles, where he will head George Pepperdine College, one of four senior colleges run on Churches of Christ principles and supported by private donations...
What are the chief requisites for a great actor or actress? "Most people will list a great voice and a good-looking body," he said. "But the greater performers have lacked one or both of these--David Garrick, Edmund Kean, Eleanora Duse, Pauline Lord and Helen Hayes, for example." In the movies, even such "good but not great actors" as Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and John Garfield were not able to get anything but villain roles for a long, long time...
...bound to get into the same areas some time. The same thing that sparks us sparks them. It's not stealing." Evidently it was just beginning to occur to some studios that television versions of forthcoming movies might not be altogether harmful. Warner, preparing a film biography of Helen Morgan, tried fiercely to keep The Helen Morgan Story off Playhouse 90, but admitted quietly last week that it will borrow the title for the film...