Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forbidden for a man to be alone in a hotel room with a woman who is not his wife, sister or mother. A simple kiss in the park is a legal offense. Adultery is actually considered a crime. But that does not keep the Americans from yielding to nature's demands, with the result that there exists a general state of dissimulation and hypocrisy that is rotting the soul of America...
...White Plains, N. Y., one Paul Mateyoke, 30, was surrounded by angry neighbors, turned over to the police, for ejecting Susie Mateyoke, 75, his mother, from his house and making her live in the chicken coop for two weeks; also for allegedly breaking her left arm with a hurled stone, for blacking her left eye and breaking her left eardrum with right hand punches...
Dearie (Irene Rich). The lengths to which the U. S. Mother will go in order to send a fatherless son through college are herein demonstrated by the heroine, who sacrifices herself as a night club entertainer. When the manchild, on vacation, discovers the Hot Momma's occupation, he excoriates, then shoots her-although the latter action is represented as accidental. Such violence leads to remorse and eventual reconciliation between widow and mite. The better element in the audience, however, is likely to remain rueful...
...Street Theatre, Philadelphia, a son was born to one John Drew, an Irish character comedian, and his extremely versatile actress-wife Louisa Lane Drew. The child, christened John, had a sister, Georgie.* Both grew up in the repertory atmosphere of the old Arch Street Theatre, subsequently managed by their mother...
Padlocks of 1927. Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan, queen-mother of the night clubs, shunted her honkytonk furies into the Shubert Theatre to dispense the usual small attentions with large-scale intimacy. She makes her entrance riding down the aisle on a white Arabian horse. Her locally famed "girlies" rush out among the audience, pelting them with cotton balls. Miss Guinan herself is in the aisles as often as on the stage, shaking hands, bantering wisecracks, kissing bald pates that clearly answer for her rouged caresses. While she is changing costumes, vaudevillians take the stage-Jans & Whalen of the Keith circuit...