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Five years ago Huang began teaching a distinguished pupil, Mme. Chiang Kaishek. For her, Huang prescribed the classical program, began with trees, then rocks. After two years she had mastered the basic strokes and was ready for color, now specializes in painting bamboo and pines. "She has made great progress." beams Huang. "Her strokes are very forceful, even stronger than...
Estelle Winwood recreates delightfully her original fluttery Broadway portrayal of Mme. Constance, the Madwoman of Passy, who keeps an imaginary pet dog and won't open her door unless a caller knocks twice and meows thrice. Maureen Hurley is amusing as the chaste Mlle. Gabrielle, the Madwoman of St. Sulpice, who hears voices in her sewing-machine and hot-water bottle. And Adele Thane brings the vigor of Margaret Rutherford to Mme. Josephine, the Madwoman of La Concorde, who still goes every day to wait for Woodrow Wilson...
...told each of the mothers the sex of her baby, but because each had had a hard time at the birth, neither mother saw her child naked until she was ready to take it home. By then a weird Gilbert and Sullivan baby switch had apparently taken place. When Mme. Piesset, whose only daughter had died only three years before, found that the boy baby she had called Guy was in reality a girl, she thought it an act of providence, and pursued the matter no further. Jeanne Derock, on the other hand, was mystified and indignant. Unwillingly taking...
Last week, as the result of nearly seven years of slow and painful litigation pursued by Mme. Derock with the aid of sympathetic lawyers and newsmen, a French court ordered the child known as Viviane Piesset taken from her own pleasant home and delivered to the home of the Derocks. Why? After pondering the results of blood tests and other evidence, the court had decided "with the greatest certainty" that Viviane was in reality Louise, a child born out of wedlock to Mme. Derock within one hour of the birth of a legitimate son to Mme. Piesset in the same...
...decision, the Piessets still adamantly maintained that Viviane was their true child, kept her well out of sight behind drawn shutters. They would be willing to take the boy that the court said was theirs, but only on condition that they could keep the girl. Threatening police action, Mme. Derock was more determined than ever to take possession of her daughter. All over France, passionate parents argued furiously over the rights and justice of the two mothers' cases. But for the little boy who for seven years had lived unwanted under a girl's name, nobody seemed...