Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Amy Ann Morse, 22, daughter of Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse; and John Matthew Bilich, 23, fledgling public-relations man with Pittsburgh's National Supply Co.; in Washington...
...suavely managed drawing-room comedy in several seasons. With Actress Skinner's help, Playwright Taylor-on whose shoulders, more than anyone else's, has fallen the opera cape of the late Philip Barry-has contrived a bright tale of the prodigal father who, turning up for his daughter's wedding, turns everything around him upside down. And Cyril Ritchard, on whose shoulders have fallen both acting the prodigal and directing the play, has added greatly to the gloss...
Actor Ritchard plays an eternal playboy, a gleeful, middle-aged enfant terrible, an international charmer and flirt. When he descends on the correct San Francisco world in which his daughter lives with her mother and stepfather, and his own glamour puts the girl's serious young ranchman fiancé in the shade, the wedding bells begin to grow faint. For father's ideal of enjoying every real or sham pleasure goes to daughter's head like champagne. Simultaneously, the blood rushes to the ranchman's, and he denounces father's wastrel charms in ringing tones...
...Carabiniere. Until she died last winter, Renata Tebaldi's mother accompanied her on all her tours, acted so effectively as a backstage buffer for her daughter that fellow singers affectionately nicknamed her "The Carabiniere." She handled Renata's mail (weeding out the occasional poison-pen letters from over-zealous Callas fans), took care of her clothes and costumes, stationed herself in the wings to minister to Renata with a Thermos jug of warm tea and an emergency flask of brandy when she came offstage. She was quick to resent any affronts to her daughter. Backstage lore...
...Indian maharajah's son, is a bush-league playboy-not, say, in Porfirio Rubirosa's class. Jane was an insatiable romanticist who could, if need be, wriggle through a love affair in five minutes. What's more, she had a husband and two-year-old daughter in the West Indies, where she had left them nearly two years...