Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in his life House Speaker William Brockman Bankhead watched his daughter Tallulah act in a finished play (Reflected Glory), tearfully observed as the curtain fell: "Parental restraint prevents my gushing. . . ." Before the curtain rose, he signed the $950,000,000 Relief Deficiency Bill...
...Darling Daughter (by Mark Reed; Alfred de Liagre Jr., producer) is an inconsequential pleasantry exhibiting Peggy Conklin, a cynosure three seasons ago when she bundled in The Pursuit of Happiness, as a serious young woman with journalistic ambitions which have no outlet for the moment except acting as her mother's secretary. The horn-rimmed glasses and blue jeans in which she first appears vanish quickly, but not the raspberry-ice freshness of manner which saves her cutenesses from being altogether silly. A topical note is injected into this warm and sprightly comedy when she asks her father...
...writer who was, in her youth, a stormy struggler in Greenwich Village for freedom for women. Now she has settled down to a placid, respectable existence with her husband (Charles Bryant) whom she calls "Commodore" because he wears yachting clothes when he sails his boat in Long Island Sound. Daughter Ellen (Miss Conklin) has an admirer so polite that he apologizes to Mrs. Murray because his late father, a judge, once jailed her for 30 days. Ellen pays little attention to him until he announces that he is sailing to take a job in Belgium, whereupon she decides that they...
...producers). The theatre is less convinced than the cinema that there is magic in a formula, and in the theatre sequels are comparatively rare. Fulton of Oak Falls, however, shows every sign of trying to be a sequel to Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness, with a daughter instead of a son as the trouble focus...
...epitome of Broadway and has no more modulation than a piccolo rendition of Yankee Doodle, or that his famed chuckle derives much of its effect from its irrelevance to the context. Ed Fulton likes lilacs and Tennyson's poetry, wants his family to be happy. His daughter is unhappy because she is treated like a child, and because her sweetheart's father is an old enemy of Ed Fulton's. When the young pair go off for a clandestine weekend and are seen posing as ''Mr. & Mrs. Johnson'' on a garish hotel terrace...