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...Reagan travels tourist class. The Soviet leader's 110-man entourage (the largest official delegation ever to accompany a visiting foreign leader to Bonn) included high Soviet government officials, interpreters, typists, 40 security men (five of them generals), 27 communications men, three doctors, a nurse, two waiters, a chambermaid, a cook and a barber...
...first and easiest impression of Parker-both on records and in performance-is of a spoiler, full of challenge and low-slung, bemused carnality. "When the world is dead, I'm gonna make the bed/ With the hotel chambermaid ... Gonna shut the bellboy out tonight" runs one of his earlier odes to one-stop sex. Many of his best tunes, like Fool's Gold, portray quite another character entirely, a knight-errant on a lonely and probably hopeless quest for a shopworn Grail: "I'm a fool, so I'm told/ I get left...
Some of the players do play their parts traditionally, adding to the general lack of direction. Ellen Gambulos's Adele, the chambermaid who wants to be a star, showed a delicate voice and solid acting, except on occasions when she allows her pride in her steely top notes show. Brumit brings a rich, deep voice and commanding presence to Frank, the jailer; and Corey Stone '79 plays Falke, the "Dr. Fledermaus" bent on revenge, with flair, though his voice is comparatively bland...
DIED. Ethel Waters, 80, spellbinding black honky-tonk singer who became a dramatic star on Broadway; of heart disease; in Chatsworth, Calif. Born out of wedlock in abject poverty and farmed out to a succession of relatives, Waters was working as a chambermaid for $3.50 a week when she won first prize at an amateur night. She went on to sing what she later called "ungodly raw" songs in Southern black nightclubs. A decade later she started performing for white folks, and was already known as "Queen of the Blues" when Irving Berlin heard her at Harlem's Cotton...
...these are simply contextless bits whose crudity is a far cry from, say, Bunuel's brilliant portrait of the country landlord who forced Jeanne Moreau to parade about in his dead wife's shoes while reading to him from Huysman's decadent novel Against Nature in Diary of a Chambermaid...