Word: jepson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firsts & Fans. Though Lux Theater is careful not to offend, it has its moments of daring. Lux "broke ground in the radio field" by casting such opera stars as Lawrence Tibbett, Lily Pons and Helen Jepson in acting roles. The show boldly signed Radio Comics Jack Benny and Burns & Allen for "their first dramatic parts." And it induced Ronald Colman and Shirley Temple, "long holdouts from radio," to make their debuts...
...playing of the Sidewalks of New York -and Jim Farley, who got the biggest hand of all when he said he was glad to be there. Margaret Truman begged off singing The Star Spangled Banner at both dinners because she had laryngitis. At the Mayflower, Opera Singer Helen Jepson sang Mighty Lak' a Rose, looking straight at Harry Truman the while...
Over the ice and through the superheated plot, the picture's heaviest load is lugged by a svelte, sultry, English-born skater who bills herself professionally as Belita (real name: Belita Gladys Lyne Jepson-Turner). Playing the star of an elaborate rink called the Ice Gardens, and wife of the owner, Belita cuts as fancy a figure on a bedroom set as she does on ice. Her problem is to keep a chilly eye on Wolf Barry Sullivan, a criminally aggressive peanut hawker at the Gardens who covets both his boss's business investment and home life...
Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...
Born. To Helen Jepson Dellera, 35, comely Pennsylvania-born soprano; and Walter Dellera, 30, her second husband, Elco (marine) engineer: their first child, a son, Riccardo (after his grandfather, the late Metropolitan Opera maestro Riccardo Dellera); in Manhattan. Weight...