Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boylston boards. After long acquaintance, the cast has mastered its vehicle sufficiently to give a performance that is fluid throughout, practiced, but not off-hand. The difficult problem of presenting a prostitute with sympathy rather than derision is artistically accomplished and the mother's benevolent attitude toward her wayward daughter is made understandable, not ridiculous. The clash of wills between the unrelenting, religious father and his family is demonstrated so convincingly by inference in the preliminary scenes that the final denouement and ensuing household-rending fight seems unavoidable rather than contrived...
Heralded by notices like "The French reply to Gone with the Wind,'" the latest Gallic sereon offering matches previous imports in honesty and verve. Cut from four hours to two and a half, "Children of Paradise" still lacks the poignant simplicity of "The Well-digger's Daughter," but makes up for it in a vertical spread of character from shaming beggars to Counts in Turkish baths...
...large black object . . . crawl . . . over the foot of the bed, and swiftly spread itself up to [my daughter's] throat, where it swelled, in a moment, into a great palpitating mass...
...middle 17th Century and her writing, as clean as a peeled twig, traces a clear outline of a dark Scandinavian story. The fearless Pastor of Vejlby, Soren Qvist, prayed God to relieve him of the passion of anger. But when the insolent Morten Bruus asked for his only daughter in marriage, Soren hurled him to the ground. The title of the novel refers not only to the actual trial of the Pastor for murder, with which he was eventually charged, but to the spiritual ordeal that preceded...
...play that was a good novel. Progressively each of the interested parties have taken Marquand's Apley and twisted him into an inscrutable New England patriarch (the play) and now into a harmless old crone whose inner conflict is no greater than the woes of a lovelorn son and daughter. Not only is George Apley altered to fit the needs of non-New England audiences, but the aura of Beacon Hill and Louisburg Square is wrenched out of reality and transformed into a cross between a high-mannered Bedlam and meeting night at the Witch-Burners' Society...