Word: helga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biographers. Others are Robert, a timid soul; his wife Hilda, who married him because Marius suggested it but who nurses a platonic passion for the Master; Mark, a bully; Johnny, a poet who is not a gentleman and is very self-conscious about it. Marius' bovine wife, Helga, feeds them all, pays little attention to their twitterings or shrieks. The colony is further complicated by the arrival of a young married couple, Lilly and Simon, who seem at first happily married. But Lilly, it rapidly turns out, is a schizophrenic : she splits up into three personalities, most potent...
...HELGA BUSBY Des Moines, Iowa...
...woman who becomes a celebrated actress, might have seemed to a lay observer wholly suitable to the cinema. The producers of the picture thought otherwise. Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) now differs from Author Phillips' story in almost all particulars, including the name of the heroine (Helga, later Susan) inserted to account for her Swedish accent. But, even as Author Phillips' honest eagerness raised the book above its manner, so the inferior story of the cinema gains validity from the impersonations of Greta Garbo and, to a smaller degree, Clark Gable...