Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What ingredients! What characters! An innocent man, convicted of murder, who is incarcerated for twelve bleak years. A wife who abandons him. A mother who never lost faith, and who scrubbed floors for defense money. . . . But the story gets better! And here is where we all come in: "A movie company paid him a meager $1,000 to make his story into a movie." The picture has already been made (Call Northside...
Departed: Hon. Michael Astor, little-noted 31-year-old son of much-quoted chatterbox Lady Astor; from the U.S. after a silent six-week visit. Mother lingered behind, possibly to paste in the family scrapbook a piquant social item from the Des Moines Register; "When [Lady Astor] finished speaking at the . . . tea, one of the guests thanked the speaker profusely. The English noblewoman responded with a sudden kick right on her admirer's posterior. The guest stiffened,then, with a gale of laughter, turned and kicked the Lady right back...
...keeps his playing clean, forthright and brilliant. A small, excitable Frenchman of 42, Francescatti has been fiddling in the U.S. ten years, and is now regarded as one of the half-dozen first-raters in this country. In his native Marseilles he learned most of his art from his mother and father, both able violinists, and could play classical concertos before he learned to read music at eight. Says he: "You do not have to know the alphabet to speak well sometimes...
...real-life stories undoubtedly saves on that expensive cinematic item, imagination, it produces troublesome shortcomings. A documentary approach saves on sets and set-pieces, but the endings, as in real life, are either unconvincing or else must be picked over to be good box-office material. To show the mother scrubbing the floors in the end would be cinematic suicide, even though it's the truth...
...remind some of the ETO, but they remind thousands more of the four glorious years they drifted through their Alma Mater. It was Smokey Joe's at Pennsylvania and Zinck's at Cornell and at Harvard, well, don't send your boy to Harvard warned the dying mother because there's no place to go. He can sing with the Glee Club and drink wherever the stools are softest; but because of a Cambridge ruling forbidding tavern singing, he can't do both at once...