Word: daughter-in-law
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...Rialto so far this season. Perhaps wary producers insist upon tried successes of former seasons, revamped and relabeled. The Little Spitfire is just another one of those Irene formula shows, with a working girl marrying into Southampton. Customary society crooks complicate matters before the dowager accepts her daughter-in-law. In all fairness, a good cast does almost make a play out of this. As the titular heroine, Sylvia Field spits and flares conscientiously and with charm. Possible success of the show, however, if any, will redound mainly to the credit of Actor Russell Mack, who, as a genial reversion...
...this new glorification of the melting pot, all the trouble starts when Mr. Van Dorn, blueblood, announces a prejudice against the prospect of an Italian daughter-in-law and a Jewish son-in-law. "We gotta get outta this neighborhood!" shouts the agitated aristocrat again and again. He thinks that, by moving, the love of democratic young Americans can be thwarted. Mrs. Van Dorn disapproves of her husband's arbitrary ways. Through her, Playwright William Perlman brings out the salient point that Mr. Van Dorn is not justified in assuming Castilian airs, because, even if the Van Dorns...
Their Royal Highnesses, Albert and Elizabeth, Duke and Duchess of York, son and daughter-in-law to George V, likewise attended last week at Swansea, were initiated into the Gorsedd (Order) of Bards without being obliged to swim or sing...
...filing of the 250,000* letters written and received by William Howard Taft during his Presidential term in 1909-13. The Taft-Roosevelt letters prior to their break will be published, among others, posthumously. Two handsome young matrons, Mrs. Alfred F. Madlener, and Mrs. John B. Drake Jr., daughter-in-law of John B. Drake (hotels), went to Chicago's grimy LaSalle street station to greet their father, Frank O. Lowden, the Farmer's Friend, as he stepped off the Twentieth Century Limited, home again after two months of watching German and Scandinavian farmers at their chores...
Born. To Mrs. Henry Sturgis Morgan, daughter-in-law of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, and a descendant of John Quincy Adams...