Word: alison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women have made smart collaborators: Edna Ferber with George S. Kaufman (The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight), Bella Spewack with her husband Sam (Boy Meets Girl). At serious drama three women in their day won the Pulitzer Prize: Zona Gale for Miss Lulu Bett (19-20), Susan Glaspell for Alison's House (1931), Zoe Akins for The Old Maid (1935). But Zona
...Alison's House (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC-Blue). Susan Glaspell's 1931 Pulitzer Prize winner in condensed revival...
Sturdy, brown-skinned, brown-eyed Author Mumford has lived for two years in the little village of Leedsville, N. Y., 60 mi. north of Manhattan, in the low foothills of the Berkshires, with his handsome, even browner wife and two children, Geddes, 13, and Alison, three...
...delightful penetration into the incongruities of human character; and they are spoken superbly. As is rare in an American movie, but usual in a French, each character is an individual. The expressive nuances of gesture and intonation, which distinguish French acting, are in delightful abundance. Jeanne Cheirel, a French Alison Skipworth, is gruffly ingratiating as the Duchesse de Treville; Vanda Greville, without being obvious, is uproariously graceless as the English girl, and Jeanne Tissier, playing the lionized love-lecturer, creates a subtle balance between timidity and conceit. All the players live their parts, and are doubly humorous in being unconscious...
...then to "Catriona," finally sent it to the press with the latter title, though it is known today more by the original name than the other two. The first illustrated edition of "Treasure Island" is no less interesting than of "Kidnapped," which is dedicated to Stevenson's nurse: "To Alison Cunningham from her boy." Several volumes are inscribed with the name of the author's stepson, Lloyd Osborne, who was the publisher of several of Stevenson's works...