Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...careers that had been interrupted by service in Europe or in the Pacific: the men from the Pacific theater sometimes still had that yellow pallor that came from taking atabrine, an early anti-malarial drug. A boy down the hall from me in Weld had escaped with his mother from the Warsaw ghetto. That fall the indoor gym for a while was filled with cots to acommodate the sudden influx of returning soldiers--occupation troops from Europe or MacArthur's command...
...SOPRANO. Her mother is a pianist and a soprano; her father is a tenor and plays the trumpet. Ann Denbow, 21, of the New England Conservatory of Music, grew up in Ashley, Ohio, playing the piano, singing and dancing. Now, after besting 50 other voice students to be the conservatory's commencement soloist this year (with an aria from Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio), Denbow has her heart set on an operatic career-but she is realistic about her chances. "Sopranos are a dime a dozen," she says. "You just hope that you stick with...
Died. Ethel Barrymore Colt, 65, actress-singer daughter of Ethel Barrymore; of cancer; in Manhattan. Carrying the theatrical tradition of the House of Barrymore into the ninth generation, Colt made her acting debut at 18 performing alongside her mother in Scarlet Sister Mary. A lyric soprano, she later sang in concerts, nightclubs and with several opera companies, including the New York City Opera. She toured Europe with her one-woman revue of musical theater and returned to Broadway in Harold Prince's production of Follies...
Cria! is about a little girl named Ana (played by the haunting Ana Torrent) who has an innocent penchant for wandering into situations that she cannot fully comprehend. Having witnessed her mother's anguish before her death from cancer, Ana becomes convinced that her philandering father is somehow responsible. She decides to poison him and succeeds-or so she firmly believes. Thereafter, when an aunt who has been appointed guardian to her and her sisters seems to be straying out of line, Ana again resorts to the poison bottle. But Auntie lives. The "poison" turns...
...recuperate. The doctors' orders: no riding for at least six weeks, putting a temporary halt to the jockey's unmatched five-month winning spree. The grounded Cauthen is already champing at the bit. "He's mad that he's not out racing today," says his mother, Myra Cauthen. "He just wants to get back...