Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife protects his delusions, nurses him, lies to her children about him. His sister Therese, once a great tragic actress, crippled with rheumatism, hobbles about on crutches. In a remote section there is a fiery great-grandmother. Nadya Séverin, a Russian princess waited on by an idiot boy but occasionally escaping downstairs under the delusion that she is flogging some serfs-a character so bewilderingly obscure that it would not be surprising if she should mount a moon-bound broomstick...
...Idiot's Delight-Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne in the middle of Robert Sherwood's slightly premature European...
...third generation have considerable reputations among society portraitists: Lydia Field Emmet, Ellen Emmet Rand. Of greatest interest to gallery goers was Lydia Field Emmet's boyhood portrait of her nephew, the best-known contemporary of the clan, lanky playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest, Idiot's Delight...
ROSE DEEPROSE-Sheila Kaye-Smith- Harper ($2.50). The fateful story of a healthy English farm girl who at 26 has unwittingly caused the death of her mother, her dearest friend, her idiot child, the suicide of her husband...
Last week two distinguished theatrical estivators, Victoria Regina and Idiot's Delight, returned to Manhattan. Of sturdier stuff were six other shows (Boy Meets Girl, Dead End, Mulatto, New Faces, On Your Toes, Pre-Honeymoon) which had run straight through the heat and lassitude of a Broadway summer. Mean- time, Three Men On a Horse was entering its third season, Tobacco Road its fourth as the 1936-37 theatre year opened with the presentation of Spring Dance by Philip Barry and two Smith College alumnae. With the possible exception of Anne Nichols' Pre-Honeymoon...