Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MARGARETS MOTHER Omaha...
...show what a family man he was, he called himself madre de quatro (mother of four...
...winning $5,000 in a singing contest. How the prize was lost but Mr. Connolly's bride was won is a story which becomes a bit too long in the last act. It involves, however, some excellent villainy on the part of the niece's mother (Beatrice Terry, niece of the late great Dame Ellen Terry) as well as homely humors by her grandmother (Mrs. Jacques Martin). Mr. Connolly is frequently ludicrous as the thwarted swell who buys a malacca stick but is forced to hide it in his trouser leg until he gets out of sight...
Died. Mrs. Edith Emerson Forbes, 87, daughter of Transcendentalist Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), mother of onetime (1909-13) Governor-General William Cameron Forbes of the Philippines; at Milton, Mass...
...mere sake of showing off. There are animals occasionally gurgling for this talkie, but they are incidental to the plot and are kept in the proper place. Pauline Frederick, an oldtimer on stage and screen, does a fine piece of work in the principal female role of the mother full of maternal affection. It is a difficult role to handle without slopping over into the worst sort of sentimentality and her experience stands her in good stead...