Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honeymoon (RKO Radio) provides a grown-up role for Shirley Temple (who in private life is now a settled matron of 18). In the film, Shirley goes to Mexico City to meet, marry and spend a honeymoon with G.I. Guy Madison, who is on leave from the Canal Zone. They have a hard time finding each other and, tied up by legal complications, an even harder time getting married. The hardest time of all is had by Franchot Tone, a U.S. consulate workhorse who is repeatedly required to help them out. In the course of getting helped, Miss Temple transfers...
...young (30), pretty helpmeet and first cousin once removed (Paul is a grandson, Queen Frederika a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria) has worked hard to overcome original Greek impressions that she was a flippant pro-German society matron. When grandfather Kaiser Wilhelm died, German-born Frederika* ostentatiously wore a bright red hat, let it be known that she wanted no offers of condolence. She has learned Greek, turned her charms on wealthy and influential Greeks, made an enthusiastic admirer of South Africa's Field Marshal Smuts. Last week the Greek Royalist press said...
Married. Ellsworth ("Sonny") Wisecarver, 17, tabloid-trumpeted wolf cub, who at 14 ran off with an unmarried mother seven years his senior ("You take Sinatra . . . I'll take Sonny"), ran off again at 16 with another matron of 25 ("an interlude of golden ecstasy"); and Betty Zoe Reber, 17, a plump, Mormon high-school girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in St. George, Utah...
...about a year ago, Mrs. George Frederick Hanowell, a 60-year-old Washington, D.C. matron, visited a friend who had four children, 5 to 11. All four were huddled about the radio, and "that Inner Sanctum," Mrs. Hanowell recalls with distaste, "was blasting away. There was a fusillade of shots, gurgling sounds of a woman dying, then sirens screaming and shouts of Look out. . . cops...
This is the second novel by Manhattan Glamor-Matron Nancy (The Manatee) Bruff, who is the wife of a Wall Street investment counsel. She tried to do some writing in Connecticut, but the birds "screaming on the windowsills" drove her back to Park Avenue. She finished Cider from Eden in a maid's room. It reads as though it had been started in a high-school study hall and completed in a girls' locker room. Miss Bruff used to have Publicity Man Russell Birdwell do her advertising, but no more. "I have had enough personal publicity," she explains...