Word: humes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Motorola TV Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Hume Cronyn in The Family...
...With Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy...
Died. Humphrey Hume Wrong, 60, topflight Canadian diplomat, Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, and former (1946-53) Ambassador to the U.S.; after long illness; in Ottawa...
Soon Rose's job brings her to a Main Line mansion, and the Main Liners parade in their native habitat: Hume's father, a Victorian-minded patriarch who has always acted like a father "and not that odious distortion called a 'pal' "; Hume's mother, a forthright, witty woman with unpredictable ideas whose ironic attitude toward inheritance taxes is: "We'd be better off if we could take the taxes and let the government have the inheritance"; Hume's nephew, who wants a job to prove that, despite his wealth...
Before Rose accepts Hume's offer of marriage, she has refused proposals from two other Main Liners. Her "simple unaffectedness" seems to be irresistible. As for Main Liners, Hume defends them against the common accusation of being lordly by firmly declaring, "We are plain people." Within Novelist Huston's one-dimensional range, they are so plain as to seem commonplace, but that may not be entirely the author's fault...