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...like to see Greer Garson as a Western lass who makes good in Jim Fiskish New York and marries a dullish robber baron, you can go to "Mrs. Parkington," but you'll also have to see her finish up as a rather pitiful eighty-year-old matriarch. That is no fun, even if you like Greer Garson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/5/1947 | See Source »

Died. Gertrude Stein, 72, grizzled matriarch of the stuttering sentence ("A rose is a rose is a rose") whose literary doubletalk was often as confusing as amusing, onetime medical student, connoisseur of modern art, author (Portraits and Prayers, Wars I Have Seen), playwright (Four Saints in Three Acts, Yes Is for a Very Young Man); of cancer, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Her emphasis on the sound, rather than the" sense, of words influenced many a writer. She considered herself the No. 1 figure in contemporary letters, was not shaken by Clifton Fadiman's snug phrase, "the Mamma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 5, 1946 | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Though she believed in enthusiastic unbottling of religious emotions, Matriarch White was always stern with pentecostal excesses. "Sometimes our people get happy and skip around a bit," she said, "but . . . we don't have any catalepsy or epilepsy." When some of her southern followers once essayed a bit of holy rolling, Bishop White merely said, "You get right up or I'll stick a pin in you." It worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fundamentalist Pillar | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...been canceled, and another 16 of the scheduled 53 were umbrella nights, when the orchestra blew and fiddled but the cash register only tinkled. Last week the biggest deficit ($80.000) in Lewisohn's 28 years faced its promoter, grey-haired, peppy Mrs. Charles S. (Minnie) Guggenheimer, 63, the matriarch of New York's summer music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stormy Weather | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...matriarch of the pioneer Melendy family is Vaughan's mother, Madam Exact Melendy, a firm, perceptive, pipe-smoking, rye-drinking woman of 91. Since she was large and tired rather easily, Vaughan built her a miniature railway, running from her high-perched house to the street. Other characters include Vaughan's dull wife Emmy, who prided herself on being a daughter of one of "the Mercer girls" imported from New England by one Asa Mercer to mate with the lonely pioneers, and Vaughan's mistress Pansy Deleath, a pleasant, casual woman whom he met while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ferber Fundamentals | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

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