Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Helen Retires is a leftover from the onetime best-selling Helen of Troy, which made Writer Erskine's fame. The opera starts with Menelaos' funeral banquet and Helen as tart a widow as ever she was in the novel. Though she has been loved. she has never known love's madness. So she sets out to find Achilles on the Island of the Blest. Act I ends with movies showing a diving submarine and in Act II Helen uses an elevator to complete her descent to the netherworld. There the warrior-ghosts have taken on ectoplasmic shapes...
...world rights to the manuscript, the London Daily Mail paid $210.000 to the widow and family of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, last of the ten Dickenses to die. For an unnamed price, United Feature bought North & South American serial rights. Second publishing rights were to be sold to smaller papers up to May 15, when Simon & Schuster will issue The Life of Our Lord in book form...
Left By Elizabeth Bacon Custer (TIME, April 17), widow of General George Armstrong ("Last Stand") Custer: $101,492, to relatives and Vassar College; a white towel certified to be the first Confederate flag of truce and a white linen handkerchief used as a truce signal by Custer at Appomattox, to the U. S. War Department; a pine table used in the Grant-Lee surrender ceremony, a letter presenting the table to Mrs. Custer by General Phil Sheridan, Custer's sword & scabbard and other mementoes, to the Smithsonian Institution...
Left. By Melvin Alvah Traylor, President of Chicago's First National Bank, in trust to his widow, Dorothy Yerby Traylor, the bulk of an estate estimated at $400,000, exclusive of insurance policies reputedly worth more than...
Johnson married a widow older than himself, whom no one else found very attractive, was tenderly faithful to her as long as he lived (she died 32 years before him). But he liked to have young and pretty women around. He finally gave up going behind the scenes at his friend David Garrick's theatre. "I'll come no more behind your scenes, David, for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities." His letter to Lord Chesterfield, "thanking" him for his belated interest in Johnson's Dictionary, is a masterpiece...