Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malacanan dressed in uniforms copied after those worn at Buckingham Palace, dropped the idea only after earnest advice from friends. He is the adored father of two grown-up daughters. Maria Aurora ("Baby") and Zenaida ("Mini"), and a small son. Manuel Jr. ("Nonong"). Mrs. Quezon, dignified and portly, keeps matron...
...great shakes as a two-year-old. But this year, thanks to careful nursing of his weak hocks. Baby (as he is known around the barns) outstepped his rivals in three of the four major tune-ups for the Hambletonian: Indianapolis' Stallion Stake, Toledo's Matron Stake and Narragansett's National Stake. At Goshen last week Fred Egan's Baby did not let his followers down. He made a runaway of the first heat, crossed the finish line (half a length in front of Remus, two in front of Kuno) in 2:02, fastest time chalked...
...more complicated situation will occur on WOR's Meet Miss Julia in September when Helene Freeman (who plays a young matron named Sandra Wilson) intends to take a vacation. At the present time the charming Sandra is married to a loony who is being treated in a private sanatorium. In order to get Sandra off the air, her unstable spouse will be permitted to escape from the asylum. Thereupon Sandra will have to go and look...
Susan and God (M. G. M.) explores the situation that develops when a giddy Long Island matron takes up with something resembling Dr. Frank Buchman's Oxford brand of confessional Christianity, tries hard to talk her husband and her friends into it and to death...
...picture is fast-moving light comedy with no weak characters to slow the pace. Roland Young brings horn-rimmed Caspar Milquetoast to life as he meekly submits to buxom Bostonian Ethel Marder--who acts a fluttery matron of social parts. And the inevitable fish-eyed English butler, Arthur Treacher, chills the drinks with a glance. The technicolor charity ball approaches the photography of GWTW; versatile Anna Neagle, who dances, sings, and acts with equal ability, sets a high mark for other screen beauties to aim at. This movie is a guaranteed cure for blue book blues...