Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mrs. Esther Shephard (Paul Bunyan) advanced a new theory to account for Whitman's change. She says that he read George Sand's The Countess of Rudolstadt. The epilogue of that typical romantic novel tells of a seer who dressed in humble clothing, preached the doctrine of man and in his inspired discourse composed "the most magnificent poem that can be conceived." Deciding to do the same thing in Brooklyn, says Mrs. Shephard, Walt spent the rest of his life "imitating, in his dress and utterance, a character in a French work of fiction...
...cared to make difficulties for the Prime Minister who forced his resignation, could easily have provoked a monster demonstration. Instead "Tony" Eden, a British aristocrat who thinks first of being true to his class, kept away from his seat in the House of Commons, remained with his sister the Countess of Warwick at her villa on the French Riviera...
...skit about the White House was hammed. Another, about the home life of the Lunts, appeared to be about acrobats. A piece about the rich unionizing turned shrill. Throughout there were very knowing references to Bergdorf Goodman, Countess di Frasso, the Racquet & Tennis Club, Manhattan's champagne country. Best touch: switchboard wires curling and writhing like snakes. Best performer: Comedienne Imogene Coca...
Most of Abbott's actors have worked for him before, call themselves unofficially the Abbott Acting Company, team together smoothly. Arlene Francis is a countess who could warm any blueblood, and Allyn Joslyn, one of the merry scenarists in Boy Meets Girl, makes the playboy a likable wag in spite of his practical jokes and bowlegged puns. Sample: "A lecher is a man who collects lechings...
Indirectly, this same advice is given by Countess de Forceville and Marjorie Kern. One of the things that worry them most about modern marriage is the tendency of husbands & wives to complain about each other in public. Countess de Forceville, whose book is aimed at more sophisticated members of the middle generation, gives several hints on what a wife can do when her husband bawls her out before friends. She can ask him to tell his best story. If that does not work, she can answer back. Or she can become completely silent, or-"this is a blow between...