Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After almost two years in Berlin, Olda and her mother were sent through Vienna, Bulgaria, Turkey and Syria to Palestine. There Olda's mother was put under medical care. Something impelled Olda to go straight on to Cairo...
...only answer was a look of astonishment, she did talk frequently with old men & women, tried in her way to ease the lot of some young British sailors, cabin boys from the torpedoed transport Orama who, still in their early 'teens, had spells of loneliness for home and mother. (Three of them tried to escape one night, got as far as the lake, were caught and put in solitary confinement for days...
Reticently Anderson. The spinsterish Olga of The Three Sisters rose to fame, 18 years ago, as the sultry siren of Cobra. Since then Australian-born Actress Anderson has played Lavinia Mannon in O'Neill's, Mourning Becomes Electro, the Queen in the Gielgud Hamlet, the Mother of Jesus in Family Portrait, Lady Macbeth to the Macbeth of Maurice Evans. Quiet, practical, an actress without frills, she has less glow than Actress Cornell, less glitter than Actress Gordon, greater range and resourcefulness than either. Of her Critic Percy Hammond once remarked that, unlike other actresses, she could be "reticently...
Divorced from University of California's English Professor Benjamin H. Lehman, Actress Anderson lives near Hollywood with her 80-year-old mother in a rambling white house overlooking the Pacific, gardens, rides, shuns bright lights. Though she makes movies from time to time (Rebecca, Kings Row), Hollywood spells security for her, not art. Says she: "In Hollywood, you merely do Scene 22 at nine, Scene 16 at eleven, Scene 7 at three. It's a good place to learn...
...Tall Book of Mother Goose -Feodor Rojankovsky...