La hija de don Amberson, rico y poderoso, elige a su
candidato para casarse y se desatan varias opiniones de los lugareños. Del clásico ingles The Magnificent Ambersons,
de Booth Tarkington…
One citizen,
having thus discoursed to a visitor, came to a thoughtful pause, and then
added, "Does seem pretty much like squandering, yet when you see that dog
out walking with this Miss Isabel, he seems worth the money."
"What's she
look like?"
"Well,
sir," said the citizen, "she's not more than just about eighteen or
maybe nineteen years old, and I don't know as I know just how to put it—but
she's kind of a delightful lookin' young lady!"
Another citizen
said an eloquent thing about Miss Isabel Amberson's looks. This was Mrs. Henry
Franklin Foster, the foremost literary authority and intellectual leader of the
community—-for both the daily newspapers thus described Mrs. Foster when she
founded the Women's Tennyson Club; and her word upon art, letters, and the
drama was accepted more as law than as opinion. Naturally, when "Hazel Kirke" finally reached the
town, after its long triumph in larger places, many people waited to hear what
Mrs. Henry Franklin Foster thought of it before they felt warranted in
expressing any estimate of the play. In fact, some of them waited in the lobby
of the theatre, as they came out, and formed an inquiring group about her.
"I didn't
see the play," she informed them.
"What! Why,
we saw you, right in the middle of the fourth row!"