Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Thomas Norwood (Stuart Beebe) is a white planter who occasionally passes a night with his black housekeeper, Cora Lewis (Rose McClenndon). Playwright Hughes lays claim to serious consideration by his perceptive presentation of Norwood and the Negroes on his place. No Simon Legree, the wealthy widower seems to treat his dusky employes fairly, is downright generous with Cora and her family. In turn, the Negroes give Norwood that queerly affectionate and somewhat frightened obedience expected and received by Southern whites. Without nosing it as a universal occurrence, Playwright Hughes reveals one dramatic consequence of this interracial situation...
...Holloway Prison police doctors examined with interest last week Alexandra Maud Edwarda Caernarvon Stuart, a small female with hair falling in ringlets down her back, clad in a child's dress reaching barely to her knees...
Ever since 1927 various British boardinghouse-keepers have fed and housed Stuart and her elderly companion, Miss B. M. N. Morgan. "Three kings were her godfathers," Miss Morgan has explained to boardinghouse-keeper after breathless boardinghouse-keeper. "She is a Princess of the House of Bourbon. The estate will soon be settled up and she will...
Reported Police Doctor Anna Glover: "Stuart's arteries are thickened and senile. She must be at least 60 years...
According to the Crown prosecutor, Stuart has been playing with dolls, dressing and talking like a child of 11, systematically perpetrating one of the most successful frauds ever practiced upon Royalty-loving Britons. Still indomitable in her pretense last week, Alexandra Maud Edwarda Caernarvon Stuart insisted: "My parents were married in Westminster Abbey. I am a direct descendant of Mary Queen of Scots...