Word: barmaids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women who were once his lovers, St. Clair also meets embittered Marny (Victor Francen), who has been obsessed for years by the suspicion that his wife killed herself after St. Clair tired of her. When St. Clair attempts to renew his youth by captivating a simple-minded young barmaid (Madeleine Ozeray), Marny sees history repeating itself, intervenes. As the two ancient rivals match wits, the home passes through a financial crisis, a strike against short rations led by wrinkled, wry Cabris-sade (Michel Simon), who spent a lifetime in the theatre understudying healthy actors. Typical shot: St. Clair, ensconced with...
Last week Manhattan critics and socialites could see, at the Marie Harriman Gallery, Suzanne & Friend (always in 1900 costumes) boating sentimentally on the Seine; Suzanne, as a barmaid, serving Friend, as a silk-hatted rounder; Suzanne & Friend as a couple of spangled circus riders; Suzanne crossing the Place de la Concorde in a very becoming grey veil; Suzanne as a ballet dancer; Suzanne in a striped jacket (see cut); Suzanne as two ballet dancers, peeking through the curtain...
...Russian wife. All three were killed. Dr. Robert Karl Reischauer, Princeton University lecturer, acting as a tourist guide for the summer, had his leg torn off in the Palace hotel lobby. He died on his way to the hospital. Death came too, to an Australian-born U. S. barmaid known to Shanghai simply as Dodo Dynamite...
...dining room will imitate an English tap-room and baronial hunting lodge. During supper a singer in the red-coated uniform of a master of the hounds will be accompanied at the piano by a girl dressed as a barmaid...
...less than 25 numbers. Beatrice Lillie appears in about one out of every three. If the measure of a comic is the extent to which she is superior to her material, Comedienne Lillie rates second to none. Whether she is impersonating a British gentlewoman, an Alpinist, a geisha, a barmaid or a star-crossed lover in a railway station, she never fails to convey by a twinkle in her eye, a snicker, a gesture, that she is enjoying quite as much as the audience the fool she is making of herself...