Word: helm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become the mistress of a lieutenant and who goes back to the general again to save her lover, a cheat at cards, from public disgrace. It is familiar material, unreal and overacted, but stamped with the European cachet of original direction and distinguished by the blonde beauty of Brigitte Helm. Best shot: the introductory sequence, repeated again at the end, in which the spectator follows the camera's eye through a villa apparently empty, through a room and a hallway, and at last to a balcony on which stands the tenant, Nina Petrova...
Bostonians, hundreds of them, heaved sighs of relief last week. The winter's heavy symphonic season was over. "Pop" (popular) concerts had begun and they were concerts faithful to their name once more. For a new conductor was at the helm ? handsome Arthur Fiedler, a native Bostonian, son of a Symphony fiddler, who last year scored a success at the outdoor concerts on the Charles River Basin Esplanade (TIME, July 29). Young Fiedler knows better than his predecessor, Alfredo Casella, what Bostonians want. He would give them, he had promised, no second session of unmixed serious fare. There would...
Misere. It is Clémenceau's thesis that ever since his hand left the helm French statesmen have been steadily leading their country down the road of misery, throwing away with both hands what he won at Versailles, and simultaneously blaming him for not having won more. Foch, for example, maintained that Clémenceau should have persuaded the Peace Conference to set the eastern frontier of France at the Rhine...
Died. Emily Todd Helm, 93, relict of General Ben Hardin Helm, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln, supposedly the last lingering close associate of Abraham Lincoln; near Lexington, Ky. When President Lincoln offered him a union commission at the beginning of the Civil War, General Helm declined, joined a Confederate brigade organized by a friend of his father, was killed at Chickamauga...