Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money, a fact which doesn't concern her greatly. ("I figure I like to sing and it's worth it to me.") Grandfather N. K. Fairbank made his fortune in Gold Dust washing powder, among other things, and helped found the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Janet's mother is Novelist Janet Ayer (The Bright Land) Fairbank; her aunt is Pulitzer Prize Novelist Margaret Ayer (Years of Grace) Barnes. In a stone mansion on Chicago's State Street and on a gingerbready Victorian estate at Wisconsin's Lake Geneva, the Fairbanks entertained transient celebrities. Janet concentrated...
...week: 48 canvases by 16th and 17th Century Dutch artists. They were part of an elaborate bread-&-butter letter the Dutch Government had written the U.S. Hitler had "collected" most of the paintings from a Jewish-owned art house-Goudstikker of Amsterdam:-for a museum in memory of his mother. (He assumed that all the North European paintings he liked must necessarily be "German" in inspiration.) U.S. soldiers rediscovered the Dutch loot among 4,000 paintings hidden in a salt mine at Alt Aussee...
...Pink Lady, secretly bombarded actresses with letters, tried for a job with a Boston stock company. But her father (Fredric March) wanted her to teach physical education, and her father was a formidable man. It needed all Ruth's courage, plus a push from her sympathetic mother (Florence Eldridge), to confess her hopes to this quick-tempered old bear who growled at everything from churches to telephones. But Father heard Ruth out with surprising calm-he sensed her tenaciousness if not her talent; and in the end he let her go to New York to try her luck...
Ruth Gordon as a playwright, like her mother before her as a housewife, has to make a little bit go a long way. Years Ago is moseying and uneventful, and its curtains sometimes come down because there is absolutely nothing left to keep them up. But in its mild fashion, it is pleasant enough; it is streaked with humor and period detail, and buoyed up by a good production. And it shrewdly keeps to the popular formula of playing up all the crotchets and toning down all the real collisions of family life; of being not so much true...
...this magnum opus, there were old snapshots and paintings, an album of "The Belles of Our Time," whose 13 beauties included Mrs. Dandridge Spotswood (1908), later the Baroness Eugene de Rothschild; Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson modeling for her husband's "Gibson Girl" (1896); Jennie Jerome, mother of Winston Churchill (1906). There was also a tour of Bohemias (homegrown and foreign) that wound up in a lush wilderness of fashion, liquor and perfume ads. Editor Bull's dollar-a-copy production number was certain to sit well where Town & Country is read: in paneled libraries, and under the dryers...