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...Semitic-looking man and his beauteous brown-haired wife hastened out of a little red-brick cottage behind a nurse carrying a basket. In the basket was a baby. The foursome climbed into a cab, were whisked to Chicago's County Court. There Al Jolson, famed publicizer of motherhood, and Wife Ruby Keeler, who for two years had wanted a child, formally adopted a 7-week-old black-locked son. Father Jolson had rushed from Manhattan, Mother Keeler from Hollywood for the adoption. Soon as they signed the papers, each rushed back to his respective home, she with...
...these circumstances, Elizabeth Bergner's performance is on the order of Monologist Ruth Draper's. She is first seen as an ingenuous gamin, pigeontoed, stealing sweets and spinning an incredible yarn about her eventful life, which includes the experience of motherhood. Then she is the wise little gnome keeping willful Sebastian Sanger, her lover, from taking his brother Caryl's girl. She seems to lose stature, shrivel up with unhappiness as Sebastian's mistreated wife. And her little body expands miraculously with an almost majestic grief in the short scene following her baby's death...
Would like your subscriber, who suggested in TIME, Nov. 12, that the judges and physicians who refused to aid the little girl in her misfortune of "Involuntary Motherhood" are as guilty and be given the same punishment as the offender, to know I agree with...
Some day we will come to the knowledge that all motherhood to be effective in producing right-minded and right-bodied children must be voluntary in the female...
...have just read "Involuntary Motherhood in TIME, Oct. 22, and I am wondering how many of its readers will agree with me in my contention that the judges and physicians who refused to make an abortion possible for this little girl are as guilty of ruining her life as the man who raped her and should receive the same punishment...