Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reverend Frederick B. Kellog, Chaplain to the Episcopal students and rector of Christ Church, has been named chairman of the committee. He will be aided by Mrs. Elizabeth Williams Miller, who will act as secretary, Professor F. O. Matthiessen, I. A. Richards, Harry T. Levin '33, Perry Miller, and Phillip H. Rhinelander, teaching follow in Philosophy and General Education...
...Mrs. Gibbons is the widowed mother of three grown boys, two of whom are in jail and the other on probation. As the play opens, she is being proposed to by a gentleman who has been a trusty employee of the Gas Company for the past 25 years. He is surprised (through this member of the audience was not) when at the end of the first act the two jailed sons break in through the living room window and wreck mother's chance of re-marriage. Mother, throughout the play, believes her boys to be angels, and the victims...
...they have committed off-stage. Even as criminals, they are not very interesting, and the "tough-guy with the one soft spot" angle has never amsued me. I think it may be that I have more concern for their mother than they do. I know I don't share Mrs. Gibbons' attitude (and the writers') towards her three juvenile delinquents, Ma Gibbons' love-blindness, the probable cause of their disrespect for the law, seems to me to be tragic rather than comic. What the hell are you laughing about, Mr. Abbott...
There were several times during the evening when I thought "Mrs Gibbons' Boys" might save itself by turning into a complete farce. Unfortunately, it never did. The character of the mother, as played by Lois Bolton, is frequently pathetic: she is not insane, (as say, the two sisters in "Arsenic and Old Lace,") but is obviously genuinely in love with her sons. She is thrilled to have them back home even if it means a jail-break, and she is also quite serious about her Gas Company beau...
Modern Convenience. In Warren, Ohio, Mrs. Laura Brandt, thinking she was using water from the rain barrel, bathed the children, washed the dishes, took a bath and then discovered when she brushed her teeth that she had used her husband's crop of maple...