Word: houseboy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mainly they wrestled with the Iraq servant problem (they had 15, costing a total of $153 a month). When they imported garden seed from England, the gardener threw out everything except onion seed, because he didn't like lettuce and such stuff. When a houseboy was married, they were put to much bother to provide a special room, because young Mohammed didn't want the customary wedding-night snoopers hanging around his door. One servant had a mania for jabbing people with forks. Household provisions disappeared as by magic. When a discharged servant was told he had been...
...years, Henry defies official criticism of his Negrophilism. But when a favorite houseboy, bored by Henry's good treatment, suddenly leaves him, Henry is disillusioned about natives. During a Negro uprising, he wields as big an imperialist stick as any. Finally his hypochondria blots out natives, women, Africa, religion altogether...
...tender homespun verse, with Jerry an amused and disturbing audience. As Lucy's life becomes more madly muddled, with three men complicating it, the comedy turns slapstick. High spots are Jerry's discomfiting brush with jujitsu at the expert hands of the singing teacher's Japanese houseboy, the free-for-all that follows Mr. Smith's canine persistence in playing go-find with two shriekingly circumstantial derby hats in Lucy's apartment. From this climax, when all Lucy's indiscretions are aired for the helpless mischances they really are, the rest is gay downgrade...
...dismayed the Dukes, they did appreciate technical excellence. Typical is Professor A. Makovsky's amusing Posing for a Portrait (see cut). Longtime instructor in the St. Petersburg Academic Art School, able Illustrator Makovsky showed a pompous bourgeois merchant posing stiffly in a chair while his enthralled chambermaid and houseboy gape over a young artist's shoulder. Nicholas II found it delightful. The picture hung long in the Petrograd Winter Palace...
...suppose. A sober, admirably realistic investigation of the futility of the back-to-the-soil movement among Manhattan's literati, it is written with honesty and humor, acted with understanding, made exciting by King Vidor's intelligent direction. Good shot: Taka, Tony Barrett's absconding Japanese houseboy, tiptoeing across a field of snow...