Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actually, the play was not very good and Actress Barrymore gave a bad performance. As a veiled religieuse she is found first in an old-men's home, later in a maternity home, lastly as the Mother Superior in an orphanage. In the first act (aged 19) she renounces her family, in the second (aged 29) she renounces her lover, in the third (aged 70) she persuades her orphans to renounce their plan of going on the streets to steal. A rambling, idle play, it had a few moments in which the hushed, sad peacefulness of cloistered life became...
...Actress Barrymore said "mush" meaning "must," "wannering" meaning "wandering," and dropped all final dentals. Her voice became deeper as she grew older and she developed a crouch; otherwise her actions did not change. But near the end, the hungry little children in the orphanage cried "Hurrah for the Mother Superior" and, a few minutes later, so did the audience...
Leadership is, apparently, an inherited characteristic of Dr. Osborn's family. His father, William Henry Osborn, was a founder and for many years president of the Illinois Central Railroad. Ancestors were the Osborns of colonial Salem, Mass. On Dr. Osborn's mother's side, Nathan Gold and Andrew Ward were active in the Revolution; Reverend Ebenezer Pemberton was one of the three founders of Princeton (where Dr. Osborn later studied and taught); Jonathan Sturges was a president of the New York Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Osborn has an able younger brother. William Church Osborn, 66, Manhattan lawyer...
President of the National Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford & of three other insurance companies; of heart disease; in Hartford. To attend the funeral Mr. Smith's mother, 79, made a seven-hour airplane flight from Raleigh...
LETIZIA BONAPARTE (Madame Mere)-Clement Shaw-Viking ($2). Brief sketch of a devoted mother, sound advisor, diplomatic friend...