Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dingy room in a dreary Athens suburb of Nea Philadelphia last week, sat an aged woman, her chin bent low over her hollow chest, her hair in untidy wisps around her wrinkled face, her sharp black eyes lost in memory. She had no need to be dressed for company, for hardly anybody drops in to pay a call on Mamma Erato these days. They are too afraid. Her only friends are the rheumatic old cobbler just down the street and the kind, ugly butcher next door. Sometimes Mamma Erato slinks out of her room to make...
Meanwhile the lonely old woman sits and remembers. "There's no reason," she muses, "for Nico to be Communist. Sometimes I blame myself because I used to beat him when he was a bad boy." Then her eyes kindle for a moment. "But he wrote me once," she goes on, "he wrote and said I was a good mother." She adds bitterly: "I was a good mother, whose womb has cradled a snake...
...child in a Christmas play: "Grandmother was religious enough, but it took a theatrical turn." Soon after she reached New York, Juanita landed a chorus job in the original Show Boat. For the next 15 years she did bits or sang in choruses in The Green Pastures, St. Louis Woman, Sing Out, Sweet Land!, etc. She also organized her own choir, for five years led it over the air. It was not until Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein saw her in audition for Talent '48, a private revue put on by the Stage Managers Club for their Broadway friends...
Hollywood beauty experts lavished their magic last week on what many a mellowing movie fan would regard as a dedicated mission. They were preparing 43-year-old Greta Garbo for her first picture since Two-Faced Woman, eight years ago. Meanwhile her producer, Independent Walter Wanger, flew to Paris, where, if all went well, filming would start in August...
...Little woman, give me your little paw," said the dying Goethe to his daughter-in-law. Had these been his last words, the great Johann Wolfgang might today seem more human and approachable than generations of followers have made him out to be. Unfortunately he said later: "Open the blind of the other window, so that more light may come in!" This statement (abbreviated to the more impressive command: "More light!") has become Goethe's epitaph, supposedly expressing his yearning that greater illumination might come to the hearts of men. Somewhere along the road the "little paw" has been...