Word: matriarchal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thoroughbred (by Doty Hobart; Theodore Hammerstein and Denis Du For, producers) presents Florence Reed, far from her Mother Goddam of the Shanghai Gesture, as the hard-riding, bawling matriarch of an aristocratic family which owns a racehorse. It develops that her children were fathered by the butler and that the horse has a bar sinister too. But through a rain of horsey talk it seems that purity of race is not everything. The son fends off a designing chorus girl. The daughter finds here true love. The horse winds the Futurity at Belmont Park (offstage), saves the family fortunes...
...appears on the stage, clings to life in her room upstairs, taps signals on a steam pipe to summon the heirs & heiresses for obsequious ministrations, keeps them on tenterhooks by changing her will every so often. The grandson (Paul Guilfoyle) and his fiancee (Linda Watkins) are frustrated when the matriarch will not let him go to medical school; the granddaughter, prevented from marrying her garageman, sneaks off for weekends with him, contracts a baby...
...view if not in construction. But where The Silver Cord impeached only one miserable old lady for her exaggerated interest in her sons. Another Language shows the more complicated problems that can arise when an entire family of spineless offspring falls under the ugly domination of a stupid, whining matriarch. With two or three exceptions, old Mrs. Hallam (Louise Closser Hale), her sons and her daughters-in-law are as genuinely disagreeable a tribe as the cinema has ever dared exhibit to its audiences. Victor Hallam (Robert Montgomery) and his pretty young wife (Helen Haves) get back from their elopement...
...Clarence True Wilson, Methodist moralist, and in less generous vein Dr. Francis Scott McBride for the Anti-Saloon League, promised to cooperate. Not so Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, the bustling matriarch of the W. C. T. U., whose plan is to find horrid examples of what 3.2% beer can do and use them to club down Repeal in perhaps 16 states, three more than enough to kill it.* She replied to Crusader Clark: "I assume you wired me for publicity purposes...
...Diano Marina, Italy, surrounded by wolf dogs and olive trees. There she and her friends go about in shorts, blouse and sandals; at night she retires up a ladder into a bunk-bed. Voluminous, witty, her many books are full of sophisticated sweetmeats. Among them: Debatable Ground, The Matriarch, A Deputy Was a King, The Room, Modesta...