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Stoppered. In Chicago, Mrs. Rum charged her husband George with habitual drunkenness, won her divorce, retook her maiden name: Miss Cork...
...American National Theater and Academy production of O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, with Karl Maiden and Douglas Watson...
...plate of gooseberries topped with whipped cream that his face was soon lathered. Humiliated before his guests, Chesterfield quipped to Philip's servant: "John, why do you not fetch the strop and the razors? You see your master is going to shave himself." When Philip botched his maiden speech in the House of Commons, Chesterfield finally scrapped the dream that he would ever make a man, or even a manikin of distinction...
...funny remarks. It introduces an elderly writer-celebrated, cynical, sick-who, after arranging to try to communicate with his doctor after death, lets a brand-new maid cook a meal that will kill him. Dead in a jiffy, he turns ghost, is joined by the shades of an Indian maiden, a Southern belle and a concert pianist. For two more acts, while the flesh & blood housemaid and doctor amble towards the altar, the four spirits aimlessly cavort about the stage...
...annulment of his marriage, middle-aged (51) Dramatist Laurence S. Liebson portrayed himself as a man supremely bilked by the wiles of a perfumed woman. Mrs. Doraine Van Roos DuPont Liebson, he complained, had led him to believe, during six delightfully dazed months of courtship, that "she was a maiden of 26." But after the wedding last February, he discovered that she was nearer 48, that she had a married daughter-and two grandchildren...