Word: helena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mimi whimpered her last notes, first-nighters in Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón were sure it had a new star. When the crimson curtain finally fell on La Bohème, even hypercritical gallery-goers joined in the ovation for 22-year-old Soprano María Helena Arizmendi...
...applause for Maria Helena capped a success story. Four years ago, a shapely, green-eyed girl with chestnut hair, she sold sportswear in a Buenos Aires department store for $32 a month. She liked to sing, finally decided to make a career of it. One day she slipped backstage at a Colón rehearsal, asked María Barrientos, oldtime operatic star and famed teacher, to give her lessons. Coloratura Barrientos took a shine to her, made her a prot...
When Maria Barrientos died in 1946, her wealthy porteño friends paid for Maria Helena's lessons with Luis Ricci, who had once been at La Scala...
...Carlo picture. But Scripters D. D. Beauchamp and William Bowers somehow got inspired by a logging war and turned out a trim screenplay; they even went so far as to write some good dialogue. Rough-hewn Rod Cameron turns in a smooth-sawn performance as a lumberjack, and Newcomer Helena Carter is expert as the girl who takes Rod away from his fancy lady (Miss De Carlo). Also starred is a redwood tree that saves plenty of money-and other redwood trees -by taking the same beautiful fall almost every time the camera looks around...
Died. Princess Helena Victoria, 77, spinster granddaughter of Queen Victoria; first cousin once removed of George VI ; after long illness ; in London. A bright court figure in her youth, she helped hasten the change from the conservative Victorian to the gay Edwardian era by sporting colorful clothes, dancing the latest steps, taking in dog races and speaking her mind frankly in public...