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...brought to be next door neighbors. The Hauser parents, both hard at work in a war plant, are eager for their son to finish school. But Frank (Glenn Vernon) is far more eager to earn money, out of restiveness, and because his friends do, and because of Sarah Taylor (Tessa Brind), the gentle, neglected child next door. Both get into bad company (Bonita Granville and some able supporters). Both "have ugly moments with their parents and at a drinking joint, and in an attempt at larceny, both are redeemed through a mellow juvenile-court judge and through kinfolk...
This time Joan Fontaine is Tessa, the nubile nymph doomed to love in vain (in Switzerland and England) for 105 cineminutes, and to expire of excess happiness and a heart attack inside of one. Charles Boyer is egocentric Composer Dodd, who does not notice that little Tessa is growing up and in love with him. Alexis Smith is his icy socialite wife, who does notice...
Graf's mother, Tessa Heimrath, was born among Catholic Bavarian peasants who all their lives tilled, milked and spun from long before dawn to long after sunset. Like animals, they "observed without surprise or emotion the eternal cycle of budding, maturing, and deteriorating; year in, year out, their eyes and senses noted the uniformity of change." These peasants "always knew the names of the bishop and the ruling Pope, but rarely that of the temporal ruler." With deep misgivings they watched the war against Napoleon III, Bismarck's new Empire, the ascendancy of Protestant Prussia over Catholic Bavaria...
Back from the Franco-Prussian War came ambitious Max Graf. Amid much barter and little romance, he and stolid, pious Tessa were married. She bore eleven children, worked stubbornly until her legs, like many peasant women's, became horribly varicose. Her husband's bakery flourished as the region became a resort for Wagner, Liszt, the mad King Ludwig...
...school's thousands of former students have become professional concert soloists, among them the young pianists Ray Lev, Tessa Bloom and Sylvia Smith. Nearly all of the great U. S. symphony orchestras have a member or two who once studied at the Music School Settlement. Of these successful alumni good-humored Director Chaffee and his staff are proud. Still prouder are they of the fact that in all of its 44 years not one of the Music School Settlement's thousands of pupils has ever been haled before a juvenile court...