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  Helen Holmes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Helen Holmes' first film at Kalem was directed by J.P. McGowan whom she would develop a relationship with and soon marry.
While occasionally the plot called for Helen to be rescued by a handsome male hero, in most episodes it was the dauntless Helen who found an ingenious way out of her dire predicament and single-handedly collared the bad guys, bringing them to justice.
Throughout her career Helen Holmes had occasionally gone back to performing in the theatre, and with the end of her marriage in 1925 she returned to the stage, making her last appearance on Broadway in 1935.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Helen_Holmes   (656 words)

  
 Helen Gibson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The highly successful series had begun with actress Helen Holmes in the lead role for the first twenty-six episodes followed by Elsie McLeod in the next twenty-three.
To fit the persona of the series heroine, she adopted the "Helen" moniker in combination with her married last name to create the stage name of Helen Gibson.
Helen Gibson proved to be a capable actress and the movie-going public made her a star.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Helen_Gibson   (359 words)

  
 speckledbandanalysis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Holmes is assuming that if someone arrives at his place with a return train ticket still in the palm of his or her hand, then that person must have taken the train.
Helen Stoner arrived at Holmes’ rooms with the second half of a return train ticket still in the palm of her left glove.
Holmes’ Deduction: The cause of Julia’s death is not to be found in any threat from outside the house, e.g., a gypsy with a “speckled band” over his head, entering via the bedroom window or the door.
www.ccsn.nevada.edu /prs/traghunath/speckledbandanalysis.html   (1126 words)

  
 Speckled Band - Production Script.SCW
HOLMES Nothing particular as of this moment, but when young ladies wander about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock sleepy people up out of their beds, I gather something very pressing is at hand.
HOLMES The name is familiar to me. HELEN The family was once quite rich, but four successive wasteful heirs left nothing but a few acres of ground and a two-hundred year old house falling to ruin.
HOLMES Roylott was responsible for Julia Stoner's death and had we not interceded, was set to perpetrate a second heinous act of murder.
www.oneact.org /scripts/speckled.HTM   (4181 words)

  
 MTV.com - Movies - Helen Holmes
Although not beautiful in a conventional way, Holmes was plucky, fearless, and a typical example of the "modern woman" at an age where the suffragette movement was much in the news.
Helen Holmes attempted a comeback in the 1930s but there were few takers and she concentrated instead on the training of animals for screen work and operating an antique store.
The Helen Holmes of serial fame should not be confused with a Broadway comedienne of the same name who appeared in the 1942 Tim Holt Western Dude Ranch.
www.mtv.com /movies/person/29176/bio.jhtml   (601 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : The Hazards of Helen [Serial] : Plot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Actress Helen Holmes, a former Keystone starlet, became a major box-office attraction portraying the plucky heroine, but battle fatigue forced her off the series after episode 26, "The Wild Engine." Elsie McLeod substituted until a permanent Helen could be found.
She was Helen Gibson, the common-law wife of rodeo rider turned Western actor Hoot Gibson, who actually changed her first name from Rose to Helen for the occasion.
Helen Holmes' husband, J.P. McGowan, who had directed the first 50 or so episodes, left with his wife and was replaced by one James Davis.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/191618/plot.jhtml   (310 words)

  
 Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Mystery of the Speckled Band"
Helen tells Holmes that and when she and her twin sister Julia were two years old, their mother married into a wealthy and prestigious Surrey family, the Roylotts.
Helen’s mother is now dead, and nothing remains to protect Helen from the ferocity of her stepfather’s anger.
Holmes reveals that he had a chance to look at Helen and Julia’s mother’s will, and as he suspected, a good percentage of the money left to Dr. Roylott would be diverted to the girls if they married.
www.storybites.com /Conandoylespeckled.htm   (894 words)

  
 My Family
Anna Holmes was born on 24 Jun 1733 in Stonington, Connecticut.
Helen Anne Holmes was born on 30 Jan 1846 in Palmyra, Michigan.
Helen Lorene "Sissy" HOLT was born in 1948.
www.fortunecity.com /millennium/hindmarsh/384/d483.htm   (524 words)

  
 Training   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Helen Holmes experienced her first flights as a pilot in June 1998 during a course in France in the Loire Valley.
Helen did not have a background in aviation; it was something she dismissed as being far too expensive.
Helen spent the day with one of the programme presenters Konnie Huq introducing her to the sport.
www.kestreladventure.com /who.htm   (297 words)

  
 Notes--Deeper In Memory
Holmes's childhood, according to me. The "folk" are the deceased Holmes parents whose fate is kept perpetually shrouded in mystery, much to the distress of their orphaned children.
In the "Naval Treaty" adventure, Holmes unexpectedly quotes from one of Helen Stoner's letters: "Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in flowers." However, near the end of the year, three cases in a row result in pointless deaths, making Holmes a little in doubt of his powers.
Holmes talks of his late sister's aspiration to visit America and learn the truth behind their parents' death.
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Helen looks behind her to catch a thumbs up from Rick Vitale, who is in the general seating.
HOLMES: I made it clear to her that she was not welcome in our home, and that I would take court action against her if she ever tried.
Helen is too shocked for words, and she remains silent on the couch, staring into space, her worst fears realized.
www.outpost-daria.com /fanfic/a_mother_in_spite_of_herself.html   (7947 words)

  
 Helen A. Sherman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She was born in Northwood, the daughter of Emery J. and Lola F. (Bartlett) Holmes.
Helen was the proprietor of Sherman Realty in Northwood.
Helen was also a member of the Crescent Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star 45 in Northwood for 60 years.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20001118/FN_003.htm   (197 words)

  
 The Descendants of the John Holme and Eliza Crafts family
Bryan HOLMES was born in 1834 in prob.
HOLMES was born in 1862 in Chatham Twp, Kent Co. Ontario.
Hannah HOLMES was born in 1859 in Tupperville, Chatham Twp, Kent Co. Ontario.
www.webination.com /holmes/d7.htm   (713 words)

  
 Peter Cushing and Sherlock Holmes - An Overview
Known in the industry for his remarkable ability with props and his professionalism in the worst of circumstances, Peter Cushing was an actor's actor.
In neither case is he the perfect Holmes, but one we can enjoy and appreciate nonetheless.
Helen’s condition was a constant worry, diverting my concentration, and of course, I missed her presence in the control box, which gave me self-confidence I lacked.
www.bakerstreetdozen.com /Cushing1.html   (2033 words)

  
 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The speckled band" - plot summary.
The unknown is achieved mainly by the death of Julia Stoner, we find out that Julia's death was a closed room mystery; all the door and windows in her room were shut and locked and there were no trapdoors.
Another thing that increases the suspense in this element is when Helen Describes to Holmes that her sister's last words were 'speckled band,' at that point in the story these last word were unexplainable and didn't make and sense but later in the story they become important.
If I was in Helens situation I would feel very scared for she is not sure how she was going to be killed or even what was going to kill her.
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 Blood and Steel 1925   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A typical railroad melodrama, Devore, an administrative assistant to Grimshaw, the president of the Pacific Coast Railroad, is being paid by a rival railroad to delay the construction of a new railroad line.
Grimshaw and his daughter, Helen (Helen Holmes), come from the East to find the cause of the delay on the new line.
Desmond was paunchy and nearly fifty years old with the coming of sound, but he continued acting by playing secondary roles, villains, sheriffs, and bartenders in serials and in westerns.
www.silentsaregolden.com /DeBartoloreviews/rdbbloodandsteel.html   (319 words)

  
 Sherlock Holmes links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Greetings from Spook Central: a Lucianic dialogue to commemorate the actors who played Sherlock Holmes who died in 1995, plus a few others.
Young sherlock holmes: the fakts: Holmes and watson minor at skool.
Holmes minor and gurls: the fakts: The sordid truth about trevors sister MAVIS.
www.helsom.demon.co.uk /sherlock   (87 words)

  
 Movie Serials, cliffhangers and reviews: Todd Gault's Movie Serial Experience
Helen Holmes started her career as a model and stage actress.
It was while she was appearing on Broadway in “The City” that famed comedienne Mabel Norman persuaded Holmes to accompany her to Mack Sennett’s Keystone studio.
But the number of episodes reached 119 over a two year period and Helen Holmes only appeared in the first 48, which would make it a series in my mind.
www.serialexperience.com /showarticle.php?fldRecNum=245   (332 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Judith of the Cumberlands : Main   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The popular star-director team of Helen Holmes and J. Gowan (they were also husband and...
The popular star-director team of Helen Holmes and J. Gowan (they were also husband and wife) once more delivered the entertainment goods in Judith of the Cumberlands.
Holmes plays the title character, the daughter of a feuding mountain family.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/63218/moviemain.jhtml   (129 words)

  
 JoBlo's movie review of Teaching Mrs. Tingle: Katie Holmes, Helen Mirren, Marisa Coughlan
Sure, Katie Holmes is cute, and her co-star, Marisa Coughlan, did a reasonably amusing impression of THE EXORCIST (Worth two points out of my three on ten), but how can we forgive the biggest one-dimensional character in any film, Holmes' rival in the film, Mrs.
Tingle's complete unprofessionalism being let go by all others around her (Are teachers allowed to behave that way nowadays?) and a transparent romance between Holmes and some long-haired dude, hired to be the poor man's version of Skeet Ulrich (Who himself is a poor man's version of Johnny Depp!).
All in all, this movie was laughable for me, provided me with no insight into anything, demonstrated Williamson's genuine lack of directorial skills alongside a juvenile script, and provided Helen Mirren with a great role to chew into, unfortunately forgetting to give her character any believability, humanity or capacity to comprehend.
www.joblo.com /reviews.php?mode=joblo_movies&id=170   (401 words)

  
 Ella Holmes Dougan
Thorp Holmes, born in County of Cambridge, April 24, 1777
Thorp Holmes 2nd - August 16, 1812 i) Thorp Holmes 2nd was referred to in WRR notes as "grandfather of mother Dougan," but he seems to be a brother of Samuel Holmes, mother DouganÕs father.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., the Supreme Court JusticeÕs father, was born in Cambridge in 1809.) Much of our family information is from a letter from "cousin Fanny" Trotter of Caledonia, Canada, to WRR.
revelle.net /revelle/revellehistory/Clark-Revelle/EllaDougan.html   (534 words)

  
 Adult Science and Adolescent Ethics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Helen Holmes' study of young US couples found that most now want two children, preferring a boy first, then a girl.
Helen Watt has argued that while we might properly decide to make `improvements' upon nature in ourselves or our own children, to do so in strangers such as our distant future relatives is more problematical.
Unlike choices we make which affect the environment and opportunities of these future strangers (and these are serious matters too), technological interventions which affect their very psychophysical structure go to the very heart of their natures and agency.
www.casi.org.nz /ge/fisherge00.html   (7495 words)

  
 JoBlo reviews the movie "Teaching Mrs. Tingle"
Holmes looked a little lost in her role and proved that these movies aren't her thing.
As JoBlo pointed out, Katie Holmes is rather cute, plus she seems to be on the verge of evolving into a fine actress.
Then there's Helen Mirren, who I usually like, unfortunately the character she plays is totally one dimensional.
www.joblo.com /teachingmrstingle.htm   (1651 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 13.478: Sociolinguistics
MINORITY LANGUAGE BROADCASTING Breton and Irish Edited by Helen Kelly-Holmes (Aston University, Birmingham) This volume examines the historical context, current state of and future prospects for broadcasting in minority languages, taking Irish and Breton as case studies.
Practitioners and academics from a variety of disciplines come together to identify and debate the key issues that will mean success or failure for minority language broadcasting in the new millennium.
The Role of Screen Translation: A Response -Eithne O'Connell (Dublin City University) Glossary Helen Kelly-Holmes is a lecturer in German and European Studies at Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/13/13-478.html   (329 words)

  
 Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999): Katie Holmes, Helen Mirren, Marisa Coughlan, Barry Watson, Jeffrey Tambor - PopMatters ...
Tingle (Helen Mirren) is not from outer space and she's not equipped with literal tentacles or ingenious special effects.
Tingle's arc so clearly established — she will be taught a lesson — the rest of the plot follows a predictable but simultaneously perverse course.
T appears to be out to get Leigh Ann Watson (Katie Holmes, best known, so far, as the consummately vulnerable and adorable Joey, object of creek-bound Dawson's undying desire).
www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/t/teaching-mrs-tingle.shtml   (1370 words)

  
 Claiborne Holmes Descendants
Note: There may be an error in recording Family numbers in the 1880 census.
It is likely that the children listed in structure #558 are the children of the two females, Hannah Holmes and Sarah Holmes, living in structure #557.
Notes: Silva Williams possibly from the Williams family residing in structure #1438 in 1870.
www.webarchaeology.com /html/HolmesC.htm   (2029 words)

  
 Teaching Mrs. Tingle Review Movie Review Film Teaching Mrs. Tingle: Katie Holmes, Helen Mirren, Barry Watson, Marisa ...
Tingle, Katie Holmes, Helen Mirren, Barry Watson, Marisa Coughlin, Jeffrey Tambor, Liz Stauber, Molly Ringwald, Vivica A. Fox, Marisa Jaret
Leigh Ann Watson (Katie Holmes- Disturbing Behavior, Abandoned, TV's Dawson's Creek) is the smartest and brightest student at her high-school.
Katie Holmes who used to be the side player really outshines everyone else in the cast and has all the weight of the film on her.
www.movieeye.com /reviews/read_movie_review/890.html   (719 words)

  
 The Descendants of the John Holme and Eliza Crafts family
She was married to Ernest J. Children were: James Kenneth WHITTAL, Ernest Malcolm WHITTAL, Helen WHITTAL, Edith Catherine WHITTAL.
Judith SUTHERLAND Parents: Ariel SUTHERLAND and Helen HOLMES.
Margaret SUTHERLAND Parents: Ariel SUTHERLAND and Helen HOLMES.
www.webination.com /holmes/d14.htm   (595 words)

  
 Palmer, Colonel Wellen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Colonel Wellen Palmer, son of Ben and Mary Schuchardt Palmer, one of 11 children, was born at Glendale, April 18, 1896 and died May 5, 1957 at the Veteran's hospital in Marion, Ill., at the age of 61 years and 17 days.
He was united in marriage to Ruby Gullett October 27, 1922 and to this union two children were born; John of Glendale and Helen Holmes of Cairo.
Only one aunt survives him, Helen Taylor of Carbondale and one uncle, August Schuhardt of Marion, besides a host of cousins, nieces, nephews and friends.
www.shawneelink.net /~fayebow/obit/031.html   (275 words)

  
 Helen Holmes - Reading Champion
Basic Skills Teacher Helen Holmes has been nominated as a Reading Champion by Evelyn Nickford, Education Manager at HMP High Down.
She not only teaches them basic skills but she also helps with the reading club that has been set up.
Unless otherwise specified, all material on this website may be used for non-commercial purposes, on condition that the source is acknowledged.
www.literacytrust.org.uk /campaign/champions2002/helenholmes.html   (222 words)

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