Word: isobel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distinguished Virginia lady, Isobel Lamont Stewart, Bryan married another: Anne Eliza Tennant, daughter of a rich tobacco merchant. John Stewart Bryan Jr. is head of the Bryan real-estate company. Son David Tennant Bryan, now general manager of the News Leader, is his father's probable successor...
...time is 1885, the scene a farmhouse in the English marshes where aging, rouged Miss Fiske (Isobel Elsom) is enjoying the fruits of hard work in the world's two oldest professions. Her dark, bonneted housekeeper (admirably played by Flora Robson) is saddled with two potty sisters, and tries to billet them on Miss Fiske. When the loonies strew her parlor with seaweed and dead birds, Miss Fiske bids them be off; but being penniless as well as potty, they have nowhere to be off to. In order to give the girls a home, the desperate housekeeper does...