Word: housemaids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scots ideas of discipline in child training molded the future Queen from birth. In her girlhood as Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, not only was she taught to cook, sew and garden but on certain days, dressed as a housemaid, it was her duty to show tourists the sights of Glamis and afterward when most of them offered tips she was Scotch about that too. About 30 miles from Glamis is the Royal Family's Balmoral Castle, and Queen Mary took an early fancy to budding Lady Elizabeth who presently in 1922 was bridesmaid to Princess Mary. King George...
...supporting cast is, on the whole, excellent, especially Will Geer and Jeanne Dante as an Iowa J.P. and daughter respectively. Mary Wilsey as the outspoken housemaid is adequate. One wishes the Eva Condon, as a veteran actress, would put more vitality into her part, since it is a good...
...morning of Oct. 15, 1899 (goes her story), that drunken, 18-year-old Allen Britt (or Albert), a sturdy downriver buck, strode into Housemaid Frankie's St. Louis bedroom with another woman. When Frankie ordered him to leave, he drew a knife. As Frankie edged toward her pistol she warned him: "You're trying to get me hurt, and I don't want me to hurt you. The best place for you to go is your mother." When Britt failed to take the hint, she shot him. Groaning on the floor, he gasped: "Oh, you have...
...Handsome Housemaid...
Evergreen and holly will fill the dinning hall where the Funster dramatic talent will present "The Handsome Housemaid; or, Piety in Pattens." The cast, as announced by Robert G. Noyes, assistant professor of English and director of the play will include: Robert S. Clements '40; Grocker Wight '38; Julian Lazrus '40; and Ralph L. Gustin, Jr. '40. Also a chorus including James F. Gerrity, 2d, '39, Joe W. Gerrity, Jr., '38, William V. McDermott, Jr., '38, Francis W. Scofield '40, Friedrich W. Stolper, tutor in Economics, Reginald T. Wheeler, Jr., '38; Robert H. Chase '38 and Michael Linenthal...