Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heeney's Mother...
Noticed your write-up, in TIME dated July 23 about "Tom Heeney." I wish you bunch of "pen pushers" would learn to respect "Old Age." You mention his mother who is 80 years old doing a day's milking well, I just want you to know that it takes a good woman to do a day's milking, and even if she is 80 years old, I bet, she could show some of you birds how to keep alive, why don't you Pen Pushers be "sports" and give the people from the other side a chance...
...home-lover, he proceeded with his wife and two of his children to the place of his birth in Tredegar, Wales. There he gently touched some grey stones, said: "Here is the old firegrate, where my mother used to tell me stories about fairies...
Another new thing for him was the première of his new composition, "To a Nordic Princess." His first public concerts were at the piano, when he was 10, in Melbourne, his birthplace. His mother taught him the instrument. Later she accompanied him on tours on all the continents. In Norway he became the friend of the late Edward Hagerup Grieg. He was chosen to play the Grieg Piano Concerto at the Leeds Festival (1907), and after Grieg's death he played Memorial concerts for him at Copenhagen and London. To Grieg, Percy Grainger owes his start...
...graphs, one or two plot the reactions of a slight half hour. Such is "Smile." An English husband comes to the Italian nunnery where his wife lies dying. Mismated to her, he dreads their last words together. The Mother Superior, a comfortable woman in voluminous black, greets him with the news of his wife's death. He goes to the corpse, led by a young nun who lures him with mischievous eyes, and a lovely hand "passive as a sleeping bird." In the quivering candle glow the composure of the dead face mocks him, and his embarrassed relief reacts...