Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fini had immigrated to New York from Hungary, had worked industriously for six years, hoarding her money, confiding no secrets. When she went back to Europe in the summer of 1939 she was supposed to be going to see her old parents. But Peter, the 15-year-old American nephew who accompanied her, was bewildered by her brusque, preoccupied behavior, soon found there was a man in the story, and learned enough of life to leave adolescence behind him forever. Touching as a study of a growing youth, Lights is Author Weidman's first major break away from...
...excellent vignettes. George Clay and Edith Bronson stole the audience during brief appearances, while Donald Gair ably portrayed the horticulturist Uncle, hampered only by a beard which obscured too many of his lines. Mendy Weisgal startled the audience by doubling up with two minor roles. His appearance as the Nephew was too brief to be convincing; as an old man he has received attention in this column before...
Hollywood let it be known that Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Chaliapin were there and at work: the late great Playwright Anton Chekhov's nephew Michael and the late great Basso Feodor Chaliapin's son Feodor as cinemactors in Russia; the late great Novelist Leo Tolstoy's grandnephew Andrey as the film's technical adviser...
...hands of C. S. Lewis, Fellow of Oxford's Magdalen College. (Writes Mr. Lewis in the preface to THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS (Macmillan; $1.50): "I have no intention of ex plaining how. . . .") In a series of Chesterfieldian letters, written from the cozy depths of Hell, Screwtape advises his inexperienced nephew Wormwood on the best means of eternally damning the soul of his "patient." The "patient," a young Englishman who is never named, "backslides" into religion, is "rescued" by life among clever agnostics, regains his faith, does his duty in London's air raids, and is snatched into salvation...
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek came to Cambridge from Wellesley yesterday, but she came only on a private visit to her nephew, Ling Kai K'ung who is a graduate student in Government as well as Mme. Chiang's "secretary-general" on her United States tour...