Word: seton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dragonwyck (20th Century-Fox), an American-Gothic period piece based on a best-seller by Novelist Anya Seton, won't teach anyone much about the patroon system or the anti-rent wars, but it ought to teach a lesson to every simple farm girl in Greenwich, Conn...
...their "Gaelic and Spanish . . . capacity for swift, passionate love" came the daughter whom they christened Santa Fe. Sante Fe Cameron is the slice of pineapple in this fruity, old-fashioned cocktail mixed by Anya Seton (daughter of Wild-Life Popularizer Ernest Thompson Seton), whose last novel, Dragonwyck, was one of 1944's bestsellers...
When Author Seton kills off Father & Mother Cameron in a few swift pages of cholera and hemorrhages, kindly Mexicans adopt Fey. Later, handsome, rascally Terry Dillon finds Fey a helpful partner in selling Dr. Dillon's Extra Special Elixir, a snake oil whose chief ingredient is river water. Said the Indians: "The Great Spirit meant you for a better destiny...
After a dramatic trial scene, Author Seton packs Fey off to New Mexico again, where she devotes the rest of her life to "patient day-by-day self-sacrifice...
Married. British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, 53, G.C.B., soft-spoken master of the Mediterranean air; and Mrs. Marie de Seton Black, 36, promoter of R. A. Freshing Malcolm Clubs in Algiers, Tunis; in Algiers. An air crash near Cairo killed his first wife last January...