Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near St. Louis, Mother Aloysius of the Carmelite Sisters, who had not left her convent for 50 years, moved to a nunnery several miles away. She was taken there in an automobile driven by one William McKenna, who later said...
...people were in such a hurry. When we got to Forest Park, she exclaimed at the beauty of it, and when we passed the golf links, she wanted to know why the men and women with the clubs were hitting the ground. When we reached the new convent, Mother Aloysius seemed very happy and relieved...
...first scene is in the Manhattan home of the Rosens in September, 1917. Eddie Rosen (George Jessel) does not want to go to war because he does not want the burden of supporting his mother (Clara Langsner) to fall to his sister (Shirley Booth). He is drafted, sent to France. In a Y. M. C. A. hut he meets his onetime sweetheart (Lola Lane), learns she has married Eddie's onetime pal and fellow song-plugger (Raymond Guion), both of whom are singing and dancing for the delectation of the troops. From that point the story fizzles into...
...with "something in her eyes," whom he wished only to make into a star. When she dies of the effects of an operation, Jarnegan grows furious. He visits the mansion where an executive is giving a party; here, he states convincingly that the executive is a murderer, that the mother of a celebrity runs "a two-dollar house in Seattle"; then he shakes the rival director who has defiled the 16-year-old star. This is also profane and exciting...
...sacrificial love; it appeared that she was to marry the girl's father but when everything had been arranged he died and Theresa was left alone, unhappy, and growing old. Franz, her son, had by this time become a pimp and jailbird; he came home to his mother only when he wished to take money away from her. Finally, she refused to let him have any more. Then Franz, whom she had wished dead, strangled her. Albert came to see her in the hospital where she lay dying. Theresa said to him: "He has only repaid what...