Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beggar's Opera'" (it will be entitled "Beggar's Holiday" during the New York run), the play deals with the insouciant exploits of one Macheath, a lady-killing crook. During the course of the show, Mae holes up at Miss Jenny's maison de joie, marries Polly Peachum--the daughter of a humorously crooked politician, and beguiles the keys to his cell door from the jailer's daughter--all in order to avoid the inevitable ending which awaits him in the arms of the electric chair...
Return Address. In Midland, Pa., James Aeschbacher stole Ernest Albert's car, a few days later called for a blind date, found she was Albert's daughter...
...rest of the week, critical as it was for his Administration, the President relaxed. Thanksgiving was a quieter day than the Trumans had expected: daughter Margaret, studying voice in New York, failed to let them know until the last minute that she would not be home for family dinner. Without fanfare, the Trumans attended services at Christ Church in Alexandria, Va., sat in the pew originally bought by George Washington...
After a day's work as headmistress of Manhattan's fashionable girls' Brearley School, Mrs. Mclntosh rushes home to play with her four sons and one daughter (aged 7 to 13) until their 9:30 bedtime. To keep them "individuals," she packs off each of the children (including the twins) to a different school. Weekends, on a Massachusetts farm, the younger Mclntoshes get better acquainted with each other and with mother and father-Dr. Rustin Mclntosh, who is a professor of pediatrics at Columbia and director of Babies Hospital...
...father, Marcus, ostracized by his Alabama townspeople but dominating the town, is as fascinating a character as Playwright Hellman has drawn. Cruel-cold-blooded, with a sardonic wit and a partly pretentious feeling for culture, he cares only, and then half-incestuously, for his daughter Regina. His treatment of his wife, along with her knowledge of his guilty past, has made her a violent hysteric; his contempt for his sons, the power-craving Ben and the spineless Oscar, has made them bitterly hostile. The fiercest struggle is that between Ben and his father. Constantly defeated, at the moment when...