Word: beekman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really no play at all. For it will go fast and far on the inherent appeal of its chief character and the tremendous vivacity and skill of the gal who plays her. Everybody enjoys a lovable lunatic, and Rosalind Russell is a delight as the kindhearted madwoman of Beekman Place, bringing up her small nephew in a world of sidecars for breakfast, living herself in sumptuous dishabille, now marrying, now dispensing with marriage, now rescuing her nephew from a stuffy brand...
When the Nazis began rounding up the Jews in Amsterdam, Salesman Elias Beekman and his wife, Sara, slipped their 2½-year-old Anna into the underground just in time. Arrested on June 20, 1943, the parents were gassed to death in a concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland on July...
Kidnaped. In due course, Dutch Jewish organizations and The Netherlands Commission for War Orphans applied to the Van Moorst sisters to transfer Anneke Beekman to a Jewish foster family so that she could be raised in the faith of her Orthodox Jewish parents. But the sisters objected-first that the Beekmans had not been really Orthodox, then that the proposed Jewish foster family was not religious enough. Geertruida Van Moorst pleaded that the Dutch courts were putting the theoretical importance of a Jewish family background above the importance of the loving care she had lavished on Anneke. Replied the Commission...
...four months in prison; for the mother superior of a Dutch convent school where Anneke had once stayed, six months (the other mother superior was acquitted); for Elizabeth Van Moorst. a year; for her sister Geertruida, eight months. But Elizabeth and Geertruida were nowhere to be found. And Anneke Beekman is still missing...
...Roller Skates. As her Beekman Place decor suggests, Auntie Mame goes through phases like revolving 'doors. In 1929, when orphaned ten-year-old Pat is put in her flamboyant care, Auntie is in her Japanese phase. Child-rearing brings out her progressive education phase. Little Pat is enrolled in a "divine new school that a friend of mine is starting. Coeducational and completely revolutionary. All classes are held in the nude under ultra violet ray. Not a repression left after the first semester." Pat is just working up his first good tan when the shocked male trustee...