Word: mama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early twentieth century Americans, weaned on "Life With Father" and brought up on "Oklahoma!" and "I Remember Mama," at last continues its healthy growth in "Years Ago." For a season or two flop after flop made its development seem stunted. But the word finally went out that it isn't enough for a show's action to take place around the turn of the century; it's got to have a good script, too. And that's what Ruth Gordon's autobiographical play features for most of two acts, while the faults late in the play should be easy...
Siqueiros thought he had the answer: the new painters were not fighters. He himself had served his first jail sentence at 13 (for sparking a student strike). At 15 he became a lieutenant in the Battalón Mama, a children's army which did yeoman service for liberal Venustiano Carranza in his 1913 Constitutionalist uprising. In 1922 he wrote an art manifesto which his two fellow revolutionists of Mexico's Big Three in painting, Rivera and Orozco, both signed. Its thesis: painting is social propaganda and should have nothing to do with ivory tower esthetes or private...
Divorced. Oscar Homolka, 45, stage star (I Remember Mama), film character actor (Rhodes, Ebb Tide); by third wife Florence Meyer Homolka, 35, daughter of Washington Post Owner and World Bank President Eugene Meyer; after seven years of marriage, two sons; in Hollywood...
...poor woman without resources put a stone in the pot to feed her children, telling the kids to collect firewood and huff-puff for boiling. The kids did. The kids asked for food, and Mama said, 'Wait, wait and huff-puff more,' and the kids did. Later the kids poked the stone with a stick and found it very hard. The kids told Mama, 'You've said wait, wait and we are hungry.' So saying, they ran away, found food and never returned...
...quotation ascribed to me ... is far from being correct or flattering. "Mama should stay the hell in the waiting room" is neither a true quotation nor good English...