Word: stepson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife of his rival for the actress, his maid, who is attracted to him but succeeds only in seducing his son (an erstwhile divinity student), carries on with a groom. The simplicity of these relationships is, however, complicated by the lawyer's virginal wife's elopement with her stepson, who has finally warmed to his work and abandoned all priestly pretensions...
Visiting in London, the early cinema's Mary Pickford, 65, stopped for a visit at the Kensington home of her slim, well-tailored, onetime stepson: Douglas Fairbanks...
...mouse-quiet, Elizabeth Taylor Todd made her first public appearance since the death of her rambunctious Mike (TIME, March 31) at a Hollywood press conference called to announce her next screen role: a budding beauty queen in the comedy Busman's Holiday. The producers: plucky Liz and her stepson, Mike Todd Jr., 28, who nervously flaunted some of the old man's damn-the-torpedoes financial bazaz: "Cost? We'll spend as much as it takes...
...story of a woman who falls in love with her stepson during her husband's absence is eminently suited for presentation on the 20th Century stage, especially if the play is one of the classics of world literature. If the heroine's mother and grandmother are supposed to have had intercourse with bulls, the play will be acceptable to the most discriminating modern, Freudian audiences...
...words or shuffle about the stage. The most difficult part, that of the heroine, is done unassumingly and well by Nadine Duwez. Roger Kline, a veteran of the Harvard French stage, puts the most emotion in the part of Thesee, the deceived husband; and Robert DeLancey plays Hyppolite, the stepson, with a competent, dramatic voice. All of them, as well as Mrs. Claude Carey as Aricia, speak French with surprising fluency...