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...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...
...resounding splash of The Green Hat (1924) seven books have dropped more or less silently from Author Aden's pen. There is no reason why his latest should cause more of a splash than its predecessors. A collection of connected short stories (whimsically called "legends"), it describes a housemaid's dream of gilded ladies and ornate gentlemen, pursuing, amid the glint of diamonds and the smoke of fine cigars, their exquisitely sophisticated pleasures...
When her nagging at his refusal to "behave himself" in paint becomes insupportable, he replaces her with another housemaid, Hendrickje Stoffels (Elsa Lanchester, Mrs. Charles Laughton). Her gentle guidance gives him a new lease on happiness, brings back some measure of prosperity. But she is excommunicated for bearing his child. Before he can marry her, she dies, leaving him to a penniless, unkempt, disreputable, lonely old age which never dulls his inner merriment or distracts his joy in paint...