Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Man. In Los Angeles, José Negrete had his marriage annulled so that he could marry his mother...
...Ancestry: his grandfather was Halvar Varran, a Norwegian carpenter, who came to the U.S. with his wife and two sons, settled in Iowa and anglicized his name; his father, Methias H. Warren,-born in Norway, moved from Iowa to California, became a master carbuilder for the Southern Pacific. His mother, Crystal Hernland, was the daughter of Swedish immigrants. Educated: Kern County (Calif.) high school, the University of California (1912), U. of C.'s School of Jurisprudence (1914). Married: in 1925, to Mrs. Nina Palmquist Meyers, a young Oakland widow with a son, James. Children: James, 28 (adopted); Virginia...
...Sweet Song. The golden egg hatched by sage Mother Goudge is different and much more endearing. Here, the lecherous and predatory decadence of the New World is forgotten in the leafy byways of the Old Country; here, quotations are culled only from the sunny hedgerows of George Meredith, Shakespeare, The Wind in the Willows. World War II-the one which was caused by all the irresponsible behavior described by ardent Father Haydn-is over at last, and Britons are exhausted...
...Search. A mild but touching picture, made in Occupied Germany, about a refugee child and his mother (TIME, March...
...voluptuous, murderous wife with such a convincing mixture of malice and weakness that one forgets completely that the character is itself unrealistic and even ludicrous. Her murder of Ezra is revenged by her two children, the weak Orin, and the strong Lavina (the Electra of Aeschylus). After killing their mother's lover and making her commit suicide, they are obsessed by their own guilt, and Orin, who is played superbly by Michael Redgrave, commits suicide himself, while Lavinia, played by Rosalind Russell with what is probably the best acting of her career, retires to the Mannon mansion to spend...