Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Depressed Leacock. Professor Stephen Butler Leacock, McGill's witty economist, intended to devote all his income to cancer research when Mrs. Leacock died of cancer. Commented he at the Physicians' meeting: "Subsidize cancer research? Why I couldn't subsidize a pony cart today. . . . That was two years ago. .. . You've heard of the Depression, haven't you? . . . No, I haven't any money for research...
...before he sits again twelve people are through ly miserable, each suspected of the murder of the host's brother. For some fifteen minutes the finger of suspicion points alternately to each of the guests. The tenseness of the situation reaches a maximum; suddenly a scream is heard, the butler staggers in, ghastly pale, and the curtain falls. The audience is left to wonder which of thirteen possible suspects, each with some betrayal of guilt, is the murderer. Derby Brown, in the part of the host, first a beaming Mr. Pickwick and then a leering Mephistopheles, does a rare...
...acting. While there are some moments of inspiration, there are many moments of poverty of expression and banality of action. Nor in the prompter's raucous whisper in the midst of a scene of tense emotional strain conducive to the highest enjoyment. However, the sterling work of Clara West Butler as Nurse Wayland, and of Mary McDonald as the old-bodied, young-souled mother of the cripple, inclines one to wink at a multitude of venial sins in the remainder of the cast...
Near Salisbury, Md., Vance Butler bought an abandoned graveyard for $200, opened a vault, found $30,000 in old gold, silver, currency...
...Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters under the skin," Kipling wrote. The parallelism between upstairs where Robert Marryot is taking leave of his wife and below stairs where Alf Bridges, the butler, is kissing his baby goodby, is maintained throughout "Cavalcade...