Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last-minute directive from the Palace permitted lady guests to deck themselves in the stars and ribands of whatever orders they might possess, and-as if to keep his daughter from being outshone in the glitter-King George invested the royal bride in the broad blue riband and jeweled insignia of the Order of the Garter...
...Francisco. But he wanted to compose, not teach. For a time he was subsidized by Cellist Gerald Warburg (son of Banker Felix) and by a wealthy San Francisco family. He retired with his wife and cats to the Oregon seaside in 1941. There, while showing his lute-playing composer daughter how Bach used 48 themes in his Well-Tempered Clavier, he got the theme for the finale of his recent Suite Symphonique. "Suzanne and I were sitting on the little stone steps in the garden. I wrote - just like that -two pages of fugue motifs. The last one, which irritated...
Married. Janet Helen Attlee, 24, daughter of Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee; and Harold William Shipton, 26, an electronics engineer; in Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, England...
...unfaithful wife murders her husband, just home from the war, whereupon her daughter, who has always loved father as immoderately as she has loathed mother, persuades brother to murder mother's lover. When mother hears of this event (from her son's cruel lips), she shoots herself. Her monstrously affectionate children then suffer a monstrous expiation. Demented by remorse and ingrown desire, the son shoots himself in order to join mother. Daughter determines to "live alone with the dead, and keep their secrets, and let them hound me, until the curse is paid out and the last Mannon...
...film also boasts some fine performances, notably Rosalind Russell as the cold-blooded daughter and Katina Paxinou as the hot-blooded mother.* Michael Redgrave, as the unweaned son, illumines a tortuous, hazily written role with great imagination. Raymond Massey, as the statue-warm father, acts with variety and sensitivity. Leo Genn may not be the romantic Adam that O'Neill had in mind, but he is still entirely plausible. There are several minor quibbles but only one broad complaint to be lodged with the moviemakers. The film is far too long...