Word: anna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sitting in the living room at home," said Anna Thompson, "when a statue of the Virgin Mary suddenly swayed and fell. Nothing but one arm was broken. I told my husband, "That's a sign. Something wonderful is going to happen about our boy' . . . I'm sure my prayers have been answered...
Arthur and Anna Thompson had never given up hoping that some day they would find Ronnie again. In the five years since he was kidnaped by his nursemaid...
This time was different, Anna Thompson felt. She and her husband went to a white farmhouse near Hickory Corners, Mich, to examine a blond, blue-eyed boy of six. Nobody knew much about Tommy O'Neill who was small and shy. About all the police did know was that he had been handed over to a Mexican couple in Toledo, Ohio about the time of Ronnie's disappearance. Michigan welfare authorities took him from the Mexicans after they moved to Lansing, boarded him at the Hickory Corners farm...
Tommy was playing on the lawn. "That's my Ronnie," cried Anna Thompson. She was positive, and prepared to prove it. "My Ronnie had webbed toes," she said. An attendant removed a shoe and sock; the toes of Tommy's right foot were webbed. She smiled triumphantly. "The other was the same!" she said, and, sure enough, the toes on Tommy's left foot also were webbed. Tommy had blue eyes, and his ears lay flat, like Ronnie...
Luise Rainer, who can be remembered for her portrayal of Anna Held in the motion-picture "The Great Ziegfeld," among other outstanding roles, is still no better decribed than by the adjective "captivating." During her longer speeches Wednesday night, particularly the lyrical but incomprehensible 'play-scene' in Act I, Miss Rainer held her audience spellbound by the sheer radiance she brought to the role. During this speech, she made fewer movements than a Madonna, but at other times she did things that no American-trained actress could possibly do and get away with--the mercurial changes of mood, the intense...