Word: footman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...types. None of these types is original. Most of them, oddly enough, are very funny. The hero is portrayed as the sort of healthy youth who hung around with Superboy in the halcyon days of Superman D.C. publications; his friend becomes a bop musician temporarily without an instrument; the footman becomes one of those stereotyped Mexicans, all sombrero and somnolence; and so on. Joel Crothers, Joel Henning, and Al Graubard, respectively, play these roles, and Caroline Cross is the heroine. What they lack in finesse (a good deal, for some of them), they make up with luck in being associated...
...Cecil Parker), the parlor pink. "Most certainly not!" gasps Butler Crichton (Kenneth More), the pantry tyrant. "Your treatment to me has always been as it should be." When Lord Loam insists, Crichton persists: "Any satisfaction I might derive from being equal [to my master] would be ruined by the footman being equal...
...this play is a mystery, but he proves his ingenuity and does an enormous amount of work to cover the author's odd efforts with an engaging, amusing, decidely well-wrought surface. He and Mr. Slezak make delightful details out of nearly nothing--a gesture, a glance, or a footman...
...Edward was a Shropshire lad, the son of a gardener, and he knew his place. At Merryns, the stately home of Lord and Lady Cedely, he shed a footman's livery and became Edward, the beloved family retainer ("Six foot of superb young animal. If he was a horse, I'd give three hundred guineas for him," said his lordship). He had a peerless touch with silver teapots and under-footmen, could fold a table napkin into a water lily, and the young people adored him. Alas, he adored one of the young people, the Honorable Isobel Lintern...
...questions-but all that with a Philadelphia accent of thrift and humor. Even crusty New Englander John Adams, seemingly too patrician to accept a self-made boy at his true worth, had to admit: "There was scarcely a peasant or a citizen, a valet de chambre, coachman or footman, a lady's chambermaid or a scullion in a kitchen, who ... did not consider him a friend to human kind...