Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Educational as well as spectacular was the costume of large, active Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes who appeared as a Zuni Indian matron. Long a student of Southwestern Indians and author of a book about them called Mesa Land, the Republican wife of the Secretary of the Interior knew exactly what to wear...
Other Washington women fancied themselves in the following rôles: Mrs. Cordell Hull, a gypsy; Mrs. Homer Cummings, a Spanish matron; Mrs. Claude Swanson, a Dutch girl; Madam Secretary Perkins, a braintruster (cap & gown); Mrs. Donald Richberg, "The Mystery of the New Deal'' (an alphabet-spangled dress); Mrs. Henry Wallace, a Yugoslav peasant; Mrs. Daniel Roper, a court lady of the Second Empire; Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr., a court lady of the 18th Century; Mrs. George Dern, one of the wives of Brigham Young; Anna Roosevelt Dall, The Devil...
...William M. Hunt 2d. '36; Anubis, George H. Edgell, Jr. '37; Creon, Richard C. Sullivan '35; Captain. Robert I McKee '37; Ghost, James W. Tower '35; Old Shepherd, Stephen Greene '37; Messenger, Glenn Morris '38. Drunken Man Harvey Huston '38. Jocasia, Jean Goodale; Sphinx, Lois Hall; Antigone, Doris Reimer; Matron, Emeline Hill...
...satirizing the bourgeois mores of the unfortunate Madame Bovary. The comedy effects are good and the general effect is amusing, but its failure to bring out the fundamental problem which faces the heroine renders it unfortunately inconsequential. Flaubert's treatment of this theme, the struggle of a bourgeois matron to find romance and love, is no doubt superficially satirical, but underneath there is the serious development of this theme. It is this phase of the novel which makes it great and this the movie has neglected. Although it has thus lost the opportunity of making itself a great movie...
...life of intellectual stagnation and sexual frustration as Superintendent of Schools in the small neighboring town of Geneva. Dorothy, the simple, beautiful model-daughter, makes a highly successful early marriage and edges into her comfortable niche in society, promising to blossom into a typically good mother and matron. Dark, mystic, ever dissatisfied Margaret ends her wild search for freedom and beauty as the mistress of a man who refuses to give up his wife and family. Bunny, the youngest and most completely free of them all, marries a fiery Communist and completes the exodus from the Ferguson home. Their children...