Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...left her. Sayle becomes Baron Otford and Lucy Pryor Madame Lachesnais. Of course, when the play opens in 1805, the Baron's son finds Madame's daughter living in a romantic street called Pomander Walk, and falls violently in love with her (Act 1). But when Marjolaine's mother hears who the suitor is she says "no daughter of mine" etc., and John Sayle, Jr., has to do his courting in disguise (Act II). Thanks to an obliging old minister and the romantic surroundings the course of true love is smoothed and when the curtain falls the minister has four...
...Falsely, True," is a glimpse into an Irish household during the rebellion of 1798. In it brother love and mother love, whetted by the sharp incidents and sacrifices during a rebellion, are confronted by love of country; there is a period of suspense that touches the most disinterested heart, the mother swoons, and the son, the less patriotic, goes forth from his home into the night. The play works in and out from itself, upon itself, suggesting sequence, heightening suspense, the fulfilling anticipations in a scene that must linger long in the memory of every observer...
...Lincoln's. Where "The End of the Bridge" gradually evolved the story of Peter and at the same time showed the recovery of a woman's mental balance and her growing love-for the doctor that saved her, "The Product of the Mill" is a simple narrative of a mother's search for a child, a narrative that might end at any moment if the necessary words were spoken, but that keeps on for the regulation two hours and three-quarters. It may be a little early to speak of the superiority of Miss Lincoln's dialogue as well...
...principal interest in "The Product in the Mill" lies in a mother's search for a child abducted nine years before. Driven to desperation, she leaves her home to try to do what the detectives have failed in, and, of course, she succeeds. A subsidiary interest in the typewritten manuscript, though production on the stage may reverse the values, is the question of child labor. The lost child is found working in a Southern cotton mill under the usual unhealthful conditions; indeed in danger of life and limb from a broken machine. In this purely incidental manner Miss McFadden shows...
SCANDINAVIAN CONFERENCE. "The Mother Goddesses of the Gelis and Germans. " professes F. N. Robinson. Saga Readings. Russell Hall...