Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happiness goes out the window. For father, son and serving man in that happy Spanish household find that there is a certain something about Nubi that,--well, disturbs them. It takes one act of this play to get the said Nubi onto the stage, and two more before purity, mother love, jealousy and much more rout...
...seems a shame to waste a fine actress such as Blanche Yurka on such a trivial play. Those who saw her in "The Wild Duck" or in "Flamlet" with John Barrymore, know her worth. In the piece at hand she plays the mother, and needless to say does an excellent bit. But it is a far from suitable part. The rest of the cast is passable, the playing of the son Juan by Mervin Williams, and the portrayal of the red-hot Nubi by Suzanne Caubaye being most worthy of mention...
...loud materialism that generalizers condemn in the contemporary chaos, and it pleases an age of youth to worship a girl who died when she was 24. People still come crowding to be healed* at the doors of the convent at Lisieux, where now the Saint's sister is Mother Superior...
...Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh, mother of a hero, went to a convocation of school teachers at Toronto, Canada. After speaking of certain educational problems she concluded: ". . . The immediate cure, if I may suggest it, is to place the election of all school officials directly in the hands of the active classroom teacher." The New York World printed her words beneath the headline: MRS. LINDBERGH HAS IDEA...
...Schumann-Heink, soprano, gave her estate at Grossmont, Calif., valued at $230,000, to the disabled American Veterans of the World War. They will use it as a rest home. Said she at a dinner of disabled veterans in Minneapolis: "I make this gift . . . because you called me 'Mother'. . . . Six years ago in Minneapolis you disabled men drank a silent toast to the two sons I lost in the War-one on the American side and the other on the German. May you all go to California and rest in the most glorious spot I know...