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Helen Brown (actress, Born 1915)
Helen Brown may refer to: *Helen Agcaoili Summers Brown (1915–2011), Filipino-American teacher, librarian, and founder of the Pilipino American Reading Room and Library * Helen Brown (artist) (1917–1986), New Zealand artist *Helen Brown (author) (born 1954), New Zealand author *Helen Evans Brown (1904–1964), American food writer and cookbook author *Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012), American author, publisher, and businesswoman *Helen Hayes (née Brown, 1900–1993), American actress * Helen Jean Brown (1903–1982), American botanist and phycologist *Helen Gilman Noyes Brown, American philanthropist *Helen Lawrenson (1907–1982), American writer, born Helen Strough Brown *Helen McElhone, née Brown (1933–2013), Scottish politician *Helen Paxton Brown (1876–1956), Scottish artist * Helen Shaw (politician) (c. 1879–1964), Scottish politician, born Helen Brown Shaw *Phyllis Fraser Phyllis Cerf Wagner (born Helen Brown Nichols; April 13, 1916 – November 24, 2006), also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Agcaoili Summers Brown
Helen Agcaoili Summers Brown (May 16, 1915January 25, 2011), often referred to as "Auntie Helen", was a Filipina-American educator and librarian. Brown established the first library in the United States to focus on the Philippines and the Filipino-American experience. She was an educator at the Los Angeles Unified School District for 34 years, where she worked to help Filipino-American children connect with their heritage and educate all students about Filipino culture. Early life and education Helen Agcaoili Summers Brown was born in Manila on May 16, 1915. She was the third of seven children born to Trinidad Agcaoili Summers, a Filipina woman, and George R. Summers, an Anglo American man. Her father had emigrated to the Philippines to teach English as part of efforts to establish Western-style schools following the acquisition of the Philippines by the United States through the 1898 Treaty of Paris. She graduated from Manila Central High School in 1934. Her family moved to A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Brown (artist)
Helen Campbell Brown (1917 – 1986) was a New Zealand artist. Works by Brown are included in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Career Brown worked primarily in oils and watercolor. Works by Brown include: ''Old sheds, Avondale''; ''The Doorway'' (1949); ''The Cove'' (1954); and ''Ebb Tide'' (1950). Brown exhibited with: * Auckland Society of Arts * Canterbury Society of Arts * Rutland Group Rutland Group or Rutland Arts Group was a New Zealand art association formed by students from the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland, New Zealand. The group took its name from the location of the original Elam Art School which was on Rutland St ... * The Group in 1949 Her work is featured in Christopher Johnstone's book ''Landscape Paintings of New Zealand'' (2013). References Further reading Artist files for Helen Brown are held at: Angela Morton Collection, Takapuna LibraryE. H. McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o TāmakiFine Arts Library, Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Brown (author)
Helen Brown (née Blackman; born 1954) is a New Zealand-born author, best known for her memoirs about cats and the meaning of life. A Multi-award winning journalist and columnist, she has written 15 books, including her memoir "Cleo", a New York Times and UK Sunday Times bestseller that has been published in more than 18 languages in 73 countries, and sold 2 million copies around the world. Personal life Brown was born in 1954 in New Plymouth. She studied journalism at Wellington Polytechnic. At age 18 she flew to England to marry her first husband, Steve, whom she had met three years prior. They returned to New Zealand and had two sons, Sam and Rob. Sam was hit by a car and killed on 21 January 1983, aged 9. Soon after, her family adopted a kitten, about which she wrote her best-selling book ''Cleo''. The book is about a small black cat who helped mend a family's broken hearts. Cleo lived to be 23 years old. Brown had one more child, Lydia, with her first husband before they di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Evans Brown
Helen Evans Brown (1904–1964) was an American chef and cookbook writer. She was a nationally known expert and wrote regular food columns, as well as collecting cookbooks from other authors. She was known as the authority on the west coast food scene of the 1950s and 1960s. She was one of the first chefs to advocate using fresh produce and promoting California cuisine. Early life Helen Oakley Evans was born as a twin on November 16, 1904, in Brooklyn, New York, to Lucy Margaretta (née Walker) and Alfred Kinn Evans. She had two younger brothers, John W. and Allen J. Evans, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She studied at Connecticut College for Women and Hunter College, before continuing her education at the Yale School of Fine Arts, as an art major in 1924 and 1925. Around 1926, Evans married Stephen Comstock, with whom she had a son, William, and began running a catering business called "The Epicurean" with a friend. Comstock later opened the Brownstone House Restaurant, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Gurley Brown
Helen Gurley Brown ( Helen Marie Gurley; February 18, 1922 – August 13, 2012) was an American author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was the editor-in-chief of '' Cosmopolitan'' magazine for 32 years. Garner 2009. Early life Helen Marie Gurley was born February 18, 1922, in Green Forest, Arkansas, Scanlon 2009, p. 1. the younger daughter of Cleo Fred ( Sisco; 1893-1980) and Ira Marvin Gurley.Scanlon 2009, pg. 2.Scanlon 2009, pg. 3. At one time her father was appointed Commissioner of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.Scanlon 2009, pg. 6. After his election to the Arkansas state legislature the family moved to Little Rock, Arkansas. He died in an elevator accident on June 18, 1932.Scanlon 2009, pg. 7. In 1937, Gurley, her older sister Mary Eloine (later Mrs. Alford; 1917-1997), and their mother moved to Los Angeles, California.Scanlon 2009, p. 12. A few months after moving, Mary contracted polio. While in California, Brown attended John H. Francis Polytechnic High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes MacArthur ( Brown; October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned 80 years. She eventually received the nickname "First Lady of American Theatre" and was the second person and first woman to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award (an EGOT). She was also the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting; to date, the only other person to have accomplished both is Rita Moreno. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. The annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in greater Washington, DC, since 1984, are her namesake. In 1955, the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Theater District was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982, the nearby Little Theatre was renamed in her honor. Helen Haye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Jean Brown
Dr. Helen Jean (Brown) Bromley (9 August 1903, in Beaumont – 16 June 1982, in Stamford) was an American botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ... and phycologist noted for her study of the algal family '' Vaucheriaceae''. She earned her PhD from Ohio State University, in 1929. She published using her maiden name, and served as both an instructor of botany and registrar at the University of Connecticut. She was married to entomologist Stanley Willard Bromley. Works * * References 1903 births 1982 deaths American women botanists American botanists 20th-century American botanists Phycologists Women phycologists 20th-century American women scientists People from Beaumont, Texas Scientists from Texas University of Connecticut faculty Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Gilman Noyes Brown
Helen Gilman Noyes Brown (October 12, 1867 – December 12, 1942) was an American philanthropist. Brown had a distinguished record of service to New York City. As social worker for years at the Union Settlement of the Upper East Side, her long service record was recognized in 1919 when she was elected to membership in the National Institute of Social Sciences. Brown served as pational president, Woman's Land Army of America, 1918; and as first vice-president, National War Work Council of the YWCA USA, Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). She was a co-founder and first president of the Cosmopolitan Club (New York City), Cosmopolitan Club of New York. As a clubwoman and as a Vice-Chair of the Sulgrave Endowment Committee of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, she demonstrated an aptitude for organization and financial acumen as well as the sympathetic training in living together. She was an ardent advocate of the League of Nations and of work for world p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Lawrenson
Helen Lawrenson (born Helen Strough Brown, October 1, 1907 – April 5, 1982), was an American editor, writer and socialite who gained fame in the 1930s with her blunt descriptions of New York society. She made friends with great ease, many among the rich and famous, notably author Clare Boothe Luce and statesman Bernard Baruch. At the height of the Great Depression, in the 1930s, she was an editor of '' Vanity Fair''. She later became notorious for an article called "Latins Are Lousy Lovers", published in ''Esquire'' in 1936. She supported herself by writing articles for the rest of her life. Lawrenson's two autobiographies, ''Stranger at the Party'' and ''Whistling Girl'', are full of anecdotes and strong opinions – especially about New York society, politics left and right, and dense with anecdotes and vehement statements not easily corroborated. Early life Lawrenson was born on October 1, 1907 in La Fargeville, New York, seven miles south of the Canadian borde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen McElhone
Helen Margaret McElhone (née Brown; 10 April 1933 – 5 June 2013) was a Scottish politician. She worked together with her husband, Frank McElhone, during his time as a Member of Parliament (MP) representing Glasgow from 1969. After his sudden death, McElhone was elected as his successor; but within six months her Glasgow Queen's Park constituency was abolished in boundary changes and she lost out to a neighbouring MP in the selection for a new seat. She continued her political activity after leaving Parliament. Married life McElhone was born Helen Margaret Brown in Glasgow. She married Frank McElhone in November 1958, and they had two sons and two daughters."McELHONE, Mrs Helen Margaret" in "Dod's Parliamentary Companion, 1983", Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd, 1983, p. 438. Both of their sons were involved in the band Altered Images, with Gerard serving as the band's manager and Johnny playing bass guitar. She "took an active interest" in the greengrocer's business run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Paxton Brown
Helen Paxton Brown (1876 - 1956) also known as "Nell", was an artist associated with the Glasgow Girls. Born in Hillhead, Glasgow to a Scottish father and English mother and she spent most of her life in Glasgow. Best known for her painting and embroidering she also worked in a range of mediums such as leather, book binding and also painted china. Education and career Brown studied at Glasgow School of Art (GSA) from 1894 to 1901 under directorship of the progressive Fra. H Newbery. She was a student of Ann Macbeth at GSA and then went on to teach art embroidery to teachers at GSA from 1904 to 1907 (embroidery being an important part of GSA craft at that time) and then book binding from 1911 to 1913. It was whilst studying at GSA that she met her good friend Jessie M. King who she shared a studio flat with at 101 St Vincent Street, Glasgow from around 1898 until 1907 when King got married. The women's friendship was longlasting and strong despite the different trajectories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Shaw (politician)
Helen Brown Shaw, MBE (''née'' Graham; 2 June 1879 – 20 April 1964) was a Unionist Party politician in Scotland. Career Shaw was active during World War I, chairing charities such as the Lanarkshire Prisoners of War Relief Committee. She was made an MBE in 1920. In 1930, she was the first woman to be elected to Lanarkshire County Council. In the Conservative landslide of 1931, Shaw was elected Member of Parliament for the normally Labour seat of Bothwell. She held the seat until 1935, when it was regained by Labour. As an MP, she worked for improved condition in the Lanarkshire mines, and to bring new industries to the area. In 1938, she became district administrator of the WVS for air raid precautions, West of Scotland. Personal life Shaw was the daughter of Annie Gillespie and David Graham, born in Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
