Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough time before dark for return to Tsaolaochi. On the way back we stopped for a village funeral. Lined against the twilight in an empty paddyfield stood half a dozen countrymen around a high-ended Chinese coffin. The chief mourners wore white headbands of grief. They were burying their mother, Chang Hu-shih, an old woman...
...accurate and typical. It nevertheless remains artistically the weakest part of the picture. Perhaps if King Lear or Hamlet had been written with the assistance of three prominent psychiatrists, the great tragedies would have bogged down in clinical detail and collapsed under the weight of father complexes and mother fixations...
Although painfully shy, nine-year-old Olivia was already an actress. In a school Hansel and Gretel, she played the mother, the head angel and the second witch-and bitterly resented not being cast as Gretel. But Stepfather Fontaine disapproved of the stage. In her junior year in high school, when he forbade her to play Violet in Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh, Olivia left home. Although she later made her peace with her stepfather, she "never slept under that roof again...
...Mother Earth (Sun. 2:30 p.m., NBC). Hour-long documentary on world hunger...
Acme Newspictures tried another tack: it put a price on the baby's head. Acme would pay $2,000, it announced, for the first good exclusive picture. The offer went begging. This week Society Photographer Cecil Beaton went to the palace to take pictures of mother & child. But the world was likely to keep right on waiting until the official pictures were released, probably after this week's christening...