Word: conventional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his cool and shabby room behind the mellowed walls of Rome's Convent of the Little Company of Mary, the 80-year-old philosopher spoke sparingly last week of things beyond the noise of war. George Santayana's fame as a poet, philosopher, novelist (The Last Puritan) made the newsmen listen to him respectfully. The old philosopher's aloof attitude was bound to irritate men who were very near to war. But his words were worth listening...
...chemical plant. Dr. Matthai, a Christian, educated at the London School of Economics and Oxford's Balliol College, distinguished himself as an official of the Indian Government before joining Tata in 1940. A believer in freedom for women, he sent his only daughter to convent schools in Calcutta and Bombay, and finally...
...Till We Meet Again (Paramount) takes place in an Occupied-French convent and deals with the struggle between the Mother Superior (Lucile Watson), who is secretly evacuating British airmen, and a novice (Barbara Britton) who helps the last Englishman (Ray Milland) escape, at her own life's cost, only after seeing the Mother machine-gunned...
Died. Rose O'Neill, 69, cartoonist creator of the "Kewpie Doll"; in Springfield, Mo. Exquisitely beautiful daughter of an Irish ne'er-do-well who later retired to a Missouri chasm, the onetime Omaha convent girl became a newspaper cartoonist at 13, in later years attempted serious painting and sculpture, never really learned linear perspective. She copyrighted her epicene homunculus in 1909, after first seeing its teardrop-headed form in a dream. Pirated the world over, the "Kewpie Doll" sold more than 5,000,000 copies, brought its twice-married parent more than...
...role she claims to have sung about 200 times) was full of Gallic spice and neat as a championship billiard game. The City Center's Martha, a bid to the Broadway trade, looked and sounded more like musical comedy than opera. So did its star: dark-haired, convent-bred Ethel Barrymore Colt (daughter of Actress Ethel Barrymore and the late Russell Colt of Bristol, R.I.), who had arrived at opera after a fling at Broadway drama (L'Aiglon, Cradle Song) and the nightclub circuit (Spivy's Roof...