Corinne Malvern a character supposed to be three years old), a 1907 New York Evening Telegram article and ships' passenger records, make it clear she was born in 1901. Malvern performed in the Henry W. Savage New English Grand Opera Company in the American premiere of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly in the role of the child "Dolore" ("Sorrow," or "Trouble" in English), Butterfly's son, in front of an audience that included the Viscount Aoki, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, and John Luther Long, author of the novella on which the opera was based, on October 15, 1907, and subsequently toured with
A Mother's Son close to life as possible. "A Mother's Son" became the second drama series to be filmed in the town, following Michael Palin's "East of Ipswich" which was filmed and broadcast in 1987. Reviewing the series in "The Guardian" Sam Wollaston called it "tense, absorbing, thrilling". Nigel Farndale, writing in "The Telegraph" praised it as "a taut, psychological thriller that will have left every parent who watched it feeling uneasy, maybe even culpable." while Alex Hardy in "The Times" was impressed by "A striking portrait of the asymmetrical compartmentalised nature of one family of our times." A Mother's Son A Mother’s