Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Margaret's mother: "I prayed very hard before she came that she would have an extra amount of wisdom, and it's really there. . . . When I used to sing nursery rhymes to her, she would try to pick out the notes on the piano. Then on St. Patrick's Day last year, she crawled up on the piano bench and played Mary Had a Little Lamb all the way through. I phoned a couple of our friends so they could hear...
...never sits still very long, so her teacher gives her only 20-minute lessons. Margaret can now read music, but can only pick words like "cat" and "dog" out of her nursery books. (Still, she likes to make a try at reading newspaper headlines, and last week told her mother, "Here's Bilbo on the paper...
...practices for a half or three-quarters of an hour twice a day, but her mother says, "There's nobody here to get upset over it if she doesn't keep any certain schedule. We want her to grow up like a little girl." Says Margaret: "Sure, I have fun when I practice. I always hope that if I keep practicing, I won't have to take a nap. Don't like naps...
...Mother Wore Tights (20th Century-Fox) is a nice little movie starring Betty Grable. In most musicals, Boy & Girl break up over a trivial misunderstanding and treat each other, for the next several reels, like a couple of saber-toothed tigers. In this one, a song-&-dance team of the '90s meet, like each other, get married, have a couple of daughters, and live for years without ever regretting a minute...
This is all so very nice, in fact, that Mother is a trifle weak on dramatic interest. Audience tears are jerked-or jerked at, anyhow-on behalf of the dear, dead days of the two-a-day. More tears are tried for when the two little girls, lonely for their touring parents, turn up for Christmas and are entertained by the whole troupe. Some tension develops when the older daughter (Mona Freeman) falls in love with an adolescent socialite and becomes embarrassed about her cheerfully gaudy parents. But Father & Mother are so thoroughly kind and understanding that no harm...