Word: karen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boarding-school, a maliciously insane little girl, and an unsuccessful libel suit are the ingredients of "These Three", now at the University Theatre. Miriam Hopkins and Merle Oberon run the school in an old farmhouse that had belonged to Karen Wright's (Miss Oberon) grandmother. When Mary Tillford (Bonita Granville), a problem child and granddaughter of the community's most prominent matron, fabricates a scandal about the conduct of her attractive young school-mistresses with handsome Dr. Joseph Cardin (Joel McCrea), rich mamas and papas withdraw their patronage. A libel suit to bring the matter out into the air miscarries...
...Saturday night the good men and true included such worthies as former Mayor John Fitzgerald, Charles Innes, Eliot Wadsworth, and other luminaries in the Hub firmament. They decided that Karen Andre was not guilty of the murder of her lover, Bjorne Faulkner, the notorious Swedish tycoon; which is just about the way things seemed to this unjudicial corner...
...days appears to boil down to the following essentials: on the night of January 16th Bjorne Faulkner disappeared. The private detective hired by Mrs. Faulkner to check up on the nocturnal activities of her spouse claims to have seen Faulkner shot by his former secretary and mistress, Karen Andre, but he can't be sure that the corpse was Faulkner because Miss Andre proceeded to push it off her penthouse roof and it got rather spread out on the pavement many stories below...
Martha Dobie (Miriam Hopkins) and Karen Wright (Merle Oberon) open a school for girls in an old house Karen has inherited from her grandmother. Young Dr. Joseph Cardin (Joel McCrea) helps them and falls in love with Karen. One of her grandmother's acquaintances, Mrs. Tilford, befriends them by sending her little granddaughter, Mary (Bonita Granville), to their school and recommending it to her friends. Mary Tilford, shrewd, neurotic and remorseless, hates schools in general and this one in particular. One night she hears a strange noise in Martha's room, and from then on all the cards...
Neither says or does anything about it, until one night Max calls her up from Paris, arranges to meet her at Boulogne. For a night they are lovers, after which everything comes out. Naomi knows, Karen's mother has to be told. Before the tangle can be unraveled, Max has killed himself. Karen goes abroad to have her baby, Naomi back to her house to be an old maid. The story comes back to the present again, and now the reader knows that the little boy is Karen's son, and it is Naomi's house where...