THE GAY SISTERS
(Warner Bros.)
1OT so very gay, and one of them far from sisterly (traditional version) are these three young prospective heiresses who
have spent 23 years fighting a lawsuit and who: live in the big old house called the Gaylord house which must never never be sold — because of the Family Tradition that the Gaylords Never Sold the Land. The Gay Sisters, the Misses Barbara Stanwyék, Geraldine FitzGerald. and Nancy Coleman, are left all alone with their huge prospective fortune when their father is killed in World War 1; but unmentionable people in France trump up a second will and litigation lasts, with a series of comparatively rapid lawsuits of two to six years’ duration, until 1941, when "the three little kittens who’ve lost their mittens" (as described by the eldest Miss Gaylord, the Head of the Family), are still in court, still (extraordinarily!) séught by the news: photographers, still living in their enormous mansion, and still looking for a new three-months-butcher. In court with them | is Donald Crisp as their lawyer, and George Brent as their chief adversary. Then we go home with them: the Head of the Family, headstrong; the middle sister, flirtatious, greedy, just back from England; and the little one who is in love with a painter but can’t marry him because she married a man for four hours and left him because he took his mother along on the honeymoon... . but he won't have the marriage annulled until the Case is finished so that he can have some of the Money. You get the idea? Oh, no, I forgot; there’s also Austin. Who’s he? Oh, just a little boy in the house. The eldest sister seems to take quite an interest in him. It shouldn’t make you jump in your seat when you are told that he is her son. And the father? Oh, come now; that’s easy. Why, it’s good old George Brent; yes, he’s actually the legal husband of the eldest Miss Gaylord. Of course Austin doesn’t know; he thinks he’s an orphan. Now, do I need to tell you the end? If you find the problem very hard to solve I’ll give you the clue; is little Austin suddenly to be given one parent (male), one parent (female), one of each (alternately, including holidays), or one of each together and all the time? There, I knew you’d guess. But maybe I made it too easy. 2
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 219, 3 September 1943, Page 21
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407THE GAY SISTERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 219, 3 September 1943, Page 21
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