Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unmarried mother when she says that soldiers who die on the field of battle and mothers who die in childbirth go directly to heaven. The large lying-in cast of Life Begins emphasizes the predicament of its most pathetic member, Grace Sutton. She (Loretta Young) is a young matron who anticipates, in addition to the pangs of a delivery, 20 years in prison because she is a murderess. This causes the physicians who are attending her confinement to make a decision which is tragic for Grace Sutton's young husband (Eric Linden). When her labor pains have lasted...
...life." Since she is not yet 46, there appears to be considerable work ahead of her. How sincere and dedicated her fol lowing is will be more accurately determined between now and November. The real strength of the Sabin organization lies in the desire of the smalltown matron to ally herself, no matter how remotely, with a congregation of bona fide, rotogravure society figures in a cause about which she may or may not have profound convictions. The weakness of the W. O. N. P. R. lies in the populous class of rural women who also vote and who bitterly...
...free time to be taken up by visits to the theatre, the Opera, shopping, etc.," such trips are culturally worthless. They serve only to while away the long hours of retired nutmeg manufacturers, and provide the thin veneer of background to match the slurred R's of the midwestern matron. The refuge for Americans too far developed for the rubber-neck wagon excursions, however, is the American colony in Paris, which has its annex on the Cote d'Or, and which is equally empty of intellectual nourishment and stimulation...
From her seat in the small stuffy courtroom of Honolulu's Judiciary Building, a once handsome, now haggard New York & Washington society, matron eyed these twelve U. S. citizens as last week they took permanent seats in the jury box. They were the twelve men good & true who would try her, Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, for second-degree murder. On the same charge they would also try her son-in-law, Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. Navy, who sat beside her staring at the floor and biting his lips. Likewise they would try Seamen Edward J. Lord...
...situation which cinema generally treats as melodrama, and makes it into a comedy which is not quite a farce. The scene is a courtroom but the principal character is not the actress (Jill Esmond) who, charged with murder, occupies the defendant's chair. Heroine is a gaunt and fluttering matron, Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane (Edna Mae Oliver) who arrives, with her maid and chauffeur, to serve on the jury. She salutes the judge, whom she has met socially. Her conduct during the trial borders on disdain, if not contempt, of court. In the jury room Mrs. Crane shows that...