Word: jepson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Helen Jepson, 35, Metropolitan Opera soprano, and Walter Dellera, 29, engineer for Electric Boat Co.; in Juarez, Mexico; she for the second time...
...beauty. He loved poetry: his father once caught him reading Baudelaire in French, and chided him for it. He wrote secretly. He loved music: at West Point he hated the bleak life-drill, drill, drill-and tried to relieve it by organizing concerts. Last May he persuaded Helen Jepson to give a Sunday afternoon recital at the Academy. When he graduated last June he remarked that the first thing he wanted to do with his new pay was to buy a gramophone and some records. His favorite was Tchaikovsky's Pathetique. He loved the theater: his father...
...Helen Jepson strolled with a beribboned pet pig for photographers...
From a bare, rocky hillside near Denver one night last week came such sounds as the great U.S. outdoors had seldom heard. They emanated from Soprano Helen Jepson, a 100-piece orchestra and a 100-voice chorus. Denver's Theater of the Red Rocks has acoustics so good that the 20,000 people who can sit on its slopes can hear perfectly without amplifiers...
...notable achievement of the Met's Manager Edward Johnson has been to hire lookers as well as singers. No other opera house of comparable artistic standards boasts such svelte and glamorous ladies as Czech Soprano Jarmila Novotna, Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao, U. S. Sopranos Helen Jepson, Grace Moore, Hilda Burke, Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber (a West Virginia debutante of this month), U. S. Contraltos Risë Stevens and Gladys Swarthout...