Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traitor. Lida Baarova (real name: Ludmilla Babkova) was born in Prague. Her father was a Milquetoasty little fellow who worked in the city hall; her domineering mother was determined that Lida should be a radiant somebody. She became one, in motion pictures. Seven years ago she was the center of a great brouhaha when goatish little Paul Joseph Goebbels was beaten up (either by her burly husband, Gustav Frölich, or by friends of his) for being entertained in Lida's chambers. Berliners coined a crack-"Ich möchte so gern fröhlich sein"-which...
...Once upon a time," says Miss Lil, "each of us was born. We came out of our mother's body after living with her for nine months...
...that there isn't plenty of action, and changes in the temper of the relationships, but nearly everybody seems pretty much the same at the end of the play as they were at the beginning. Turney also plays a very irritating trick on his audience by having the mother (Frances Dee, a capable actress from Hollywood) apparently, murdered at the end of Act II, only to reveal in Act III that she was just overpowered and temporarily hidden...
...Betsy Edmonds, 3, made a guest appearance on Manhattan's WHN For Women Only program, billed as the world's youngest book reviewer. Her choice to review: Mother Goose and Father Gander...
...overall pan shots, the other for intimate closeups. After laying out the racy boulevards and teeming suburbs of Paris (as seen by a financier in a hovering plane), Author Remains dives down to the corner of a little tearoom for a close-up of a plump Parisian mother fretting over her daughter's newly modish knee-high skirt...