Word: spinsterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have combined with the meticulous producing of Dwight Decre Wiman and the flawless acting of Flora Robson and the unusually good supporting cast to make a production that is an exercise in technical excellence. Miss Robson, displaying again her complete mastery of her art, is perfect as the English spinster; she is so good that even Jane Austen would probably approve of her. Margaret Dougless is outstanding as an overbearing matron, and Celeste Holm is very good as a breezy actress. Definite ornaments to the cast are a handsome and promising juvenile, Peter Fernandez, and a delightful young lady named...
...sell because her father told her not to. Besides, she was once secretly married to Brent-just long enough to collect a badly needed inheritance from her Aunt Sophronia and to bear Brent a child. Says Sister Fitzgerald when this truth comes out: "Oh, my darling spinster, how you've been...
Mother's Day, first nationally proclaimed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914 at the behest of an eccentric Philadelphia spinster, Anna Jarvis, and since proclaimed by successive U.S. presidents (who without exception have loved their mothers) has long since become Big Business for florists, greeting-card makers, candy makers, telegraph companies...
Unfortunately the play is subject to serious criticism on the grounds of unoriginality in both idea and treatment. The story of a philanthropic spinster attempting to educate Welsh miners and her discovery of a man of great talent among them hardly makes a sufficiently interesting plot even though the author, Emlyn Williams, has added many complications along the road to education. The wiles of a bottle of rum and a serving wench are almost enough to put an end to the spinster's hopes but she finally is successful in getting the brilliant miner a scholarship to Oxford. The situation...
...screen--has built up two well-developed characters and created a powerful, if subjective, conflict between them. Around this he has built a play which though weak in itself provides an excellent vehicle for Ethel Barrymore and a fine company of actors. Miss Barrymore plays the role of the spinster with great technique and feeling as well as a fine sense of comedy. Richard Waring as the student and Thelma Schnee as the serving wench share the honors with Miss Barrymore, while the lesser parts are all finely played, particularly that of the local squire. It is a case...