Word: anna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anna and the King of Siam ( 20th Century-Fox; TIME, June...
...were Francis MacNutt and Seabury Quinn. While neither could by any means be said to have given a remarkable performance, they both played the rather slight material to the hilt, aiding the general effect of making a live comedy out of what could have sounded like a misplaced textbook. Anna Prince and Elaine Limpert took the corresponding female roles with a corresponding gusto, while Cathleen O'Conor emerged from a secondary part with the only really polished performance of the evening...
...Founded in 1925 in Washington, D.C. by a physician-nun, Mother Anna Dengel, the Medical Mission Sisters now have 170 members, maternity hospitals in India, England, Atlanta. They conduct one of the three schools for midwives in the U.S. The others: Kentucky's Frontier School of Midwifery, Manhattan's Maternity Center Association...
Despite the glamorized buildup to her job (a favorite newspaper comparison: Anna and the King of Siam), Mrs. Vining sees Akihito in private only one hour a week. A Japanese, Professor Hiroshi Kikuchi, gives the Prince most of his English lessons, which take seven of his 27 schoolroom hours (the Prince spends only four hours a week on Japanese...
...best things about this new full-length biography of Tolstoy is the picture it gives of the great Russian as a young man. Both of the novels by which he is best remembered were written later: War and Peace in his 30s and Anna Karenina in his 40s. They were not written by the unkempt peasant-patriarch of the last publicized years of Tolstoy's life, but by a rude aristocrat of tremendous energy...