Word: gentlefolks
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...their curved ivory faces true to tribal doll convention: smiles for the boys, frowns for the girls. These miniatures are more than mere playthings. Black dolls of the South were owned by the children of slaves; after the Civil War, dolls were made with new identities: ministers, teachers, fashionable gentlefolk. "If only the dolls themselves could speak!" muses Lavitt. In a way they do, and what they have to say is history...
This sort of thing will almost certainly offend Christie purists, and it may puzzle those few remaining gentlefolk who are uninterested in the offstage carryings-on of picture people. But the film does capture, in satirically exaggerated tones, certain recognizable film types and the hyperbolic, hyperactive way they address one another during the many waiting-around hours their peculiar occupations impose upon them. This does not entirely compensate for the short weight this picture gives mystery fans or for its technical shoddiness. But the good lines make Mirror more fun to watch than it has any right...
...disputed a linesman's calls, unleashed grimaces, tossed racquets or bashed balls. "Iceborg" they called him. In an era when tennis was turning from a game of gentlefolk to a showcase for the antics of ill-mannered Nastases, petulant Connorses and adolescent McEnroes, Borg seemed right out of Boy's Life?Goody Twoshoes with a tennis racquet...
...plot of the 1952 play was distinctly threadbare: seven candidates for the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association trapped by a blizzard in a provincial guesthouse with a maniacal killer. But Murder Manufacturer Agatha Christie said optimistically, "I do think we will get quite a good run out of it," as she signed over all royalties to her grandson Mathew Prichard, 9. Twenty-one years later, The Mousetrap has become the longest running play ever, totting up 8,717 performances in London and earning $7.5 million. Prichard, now 30 and a gentleman farmer in Wales, declined to comment...
Starved for Sport. In 1844, Bethlehem was bedlam indeed. Gentlefolk considered it a sport to come out to watch the inmates. Obstreperous patients were judiciously starved or given violent purgatives to keep them submissive. Deaths from overdoses of opiates were common. Dadd survived this hell for six years. In 1852, Dr. William Hood, a pioneer in England of modern mental therapy, was assigned to Bethlehem. Hood encouraged Dadd to take up brush and pencil once again. Hood's hospital steward, George Henry Haydon, was an amateur artist and encouraged Dadd further. Dadd dedicated The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke...