Word: maides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden burst of unseasonably fine London weather is responsible for setting the Hiltons, their two daughters, son, maid and terrier on a frolic for 16 lively hours. Forsythia and iris are blooming, and to love all hearts turn lightly save that of the Hilton's cleaning woman who ominously declares: "The first spring day Is in the devil...
Exuberantly the three make their way through England, recruiting from a London town-house Dennie Moore, a lady's maid with stage ambitions. They buy a van, tour the English coast towns, doing music-hall turns until they encounter Brian Aherne, an artist with whom Sylvia Scarlett falls in love. One day on the beach she slips out of her male attire, steals the dress of a girl in swimming, goes up to his house. What follows is one of those scenes which Miss Hepburn plays with her best intuition,, a scene in which a woman who has played...
Edna May Oliver is entitled to many of the remaining honors for her characterization of Miss Pross, the best of the pre-Wodehouse servants. No part could suit her better than that of this stiff, self-righteous, devoted maid-companion, to whom non-churchgoers are Atheists and the whole world is at the call of her ladybird. Blanche Yurka takes the part of Madame DeFarge, the fanatical wife of the wine shop keeper who heads the Jacquerie. She is in the role of an intensely emotional and overbearing personality such as she has played on the legitimate stage for many...
Offstage Kirsten Flagstad is a simple, unassuming person, who keeps no maid or secretary because she hates to have anyone fussing around her. She is shy with strangers, content to knit, play solitaire, see Greta Garbo cinemas, eat one spanking meal a day and treat herself to a half bottle of champagne when she feels that a performance has been a success. Since she arrived in the U. S. the hearty Norse has never had reason to deny herself the champagne reward. Like every singer who has made a Metropolitan success, she has taken to the road, given concerts before...
...Personal Maid's Secret" with Margaret Lindsay and Ruth Donnelly has a couple of scenes that are really swell. It has, though, the perennial child-one that materially strengthens our conviction that infant movie actors should all be drowned. Incidentally the maid's secret is just what we suspected. It is pleasant not to be disappointed...