Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago the earthly heaven of that earthly little black "god," the Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine, was enriched by two new angels, Verinda and Thomas Brown. As working Negroes go-they were cook & butler in Forest Hills, L. I.-the Browns were well heeled. Soon after they visited Father Divine's heaven at Sayville, L. I., confirming their angelic state by taking the names Rebecca Grace and Onward Universe, they forked out their savings, nearly $1,000. Onward Universe liked the porkchop heaven so well that he stayed put, while Rebecca Grace worked to send Father...
...Irishman, Gideon Ouseley, among the English. About it hangs an odd flavor of the old Evelyn Waugh, not least in the dedication "to Alfred and Patricia Flesh of Piqua." It begins with a ripe and shameless piece of blarney in which Ouseley describes his parting with the late William Butler Yeats ("Grandeur is gone, Ouseley, grandeur is gone . . .") and a sufficient hint that Ouseley represents Gogarty himself...
...suit shot in for good measure. There are numerous bedroom scenes in which Joel McCrea impersonates a mouse, a rat, and a sleep-walker. His hiding places are, respectively, the closet, underneath the bed, and the bathroom. To fill in the dull moments there are a Yoga, an English butler, Cesar Romero, and Mary Boland. Cesar Romero's typical line: "I know what I want and I'm going...
Died. Elizabeth Corbett Yeats, 71, artist sister of the late great Poet William Butler Yeats; after brief illness; in Dublin. (News of her death reached the U. S. a month late, in a censor-delayed letter from her painter-brother Jack Butler Yeats...
Part of the credit for making this somersault admirably smooth instead of ridiculous belongs to Producer Victor Saville (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) and Director Richard Thorpe (Night Must Fall). Part belongs to British Actor Edmund Gwenn for a first-rate performance as the butler who is submissive, not subservient. But most of the entertainment in The Earl of Chicago, and that is plenty, is provided by Robert Montgomery's transformation of his playboy grin into a fixed moronic stare, his playboy titter into a loony hee-hee, his playboy aplomb into gangster arrogance...