Word: widower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British Director Guthrie conducts a brilliant bombardment. In the title role, a bewigged and umbrella'd Ruth Gordon gloriously whacks ar>d wheedles her way to the altar while Loring Smith huffs and bellows, and British Actress Eileen Herlie plays a vivacious widow with bright, broad charm. If sometimes just loud and at other times too cute, The Matchmaker can also, as in a sudden whispered harmonizing of Tenting Tonight, turn warm and sweet. It can even be a little bashfully philosophical. Everyone connives with too much good nature and high spirits for any real claw to lurk beneath...
Died. Mabel Wellington White Stimson, 89, widow of Henry L. Stimson, four-time Cabinet member under Presidents Taft (1911-13), Hoover (1929-33), Roosevelt and Truman (1940-45); in Huntington...
...Love Rides the Rails" is basically a melodrama and its plot somewhat resembles that of "The Golden Fleecer." The action centers around two swindlers who come to a small town and try to extract some railroad rights from a widow and her daughter. The two women fight back, and with the aid of the daughter's boy friend, are eventually successful in ridding the town of the crooks...
...postal worker's widow, and now a charwoman on Chicago's North Side, Agnes Jones had to watch every penny. So she was delighted by a neighbor's suggestion that a dental laboratory down the block could make her a set of false teeth more cheaply than a dentist could. On her first visit to a grubby North Clark Street office, a technician examined Mrs. Jones's mouth and told her: "I have had a dentist for 28 years, and he knows his stuff." The lab man quoted...
...DYING FALL, by Henry Wade (241 pp.; Macmillan; $2.75). After the wealthy widow marries the fortune-hunting gambler, does she fall or is she pushed from the second-floor landing to her death? One of those expert British suspense jobs, the story moves suavely on two levels; a seemingly slow-paced tale set in hunting country, it crackles with undercurrents of blackmail, violent passion and murder. Topnotch in its class, it has the season's best double-whammy ending...