October 27, 2024
Tag: Helene Held
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Three Tragic Lives
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Three women of extraordinary beauty, talent, and wealth whose lives could be the outline for an anthology of tragic short stories are portrayed in this remembrance. Two were dead before age 50, the other shunned by the world. Helene Held, Nance O’Neil, and Gaynor Rowlands are forgotten today but postcard collectors know their faces and…
Past Article
January 12, 2022 16 Comments
Haussner’s “German-American” restaurant in Baltimore, Maryland, was both. William and Frances Haussner, immigrants to America, opened their restaurant in 1926 and soon began collecting art to display in their east Baltimore restaurant. Throughout the better parts of eight decades thousands of hungry art lovers came to dine and gaze at a masterpiece.