Word: maides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minor attractions esnsist of Theima Todd in a comedy "Maid in Hollywood" and a movie of some remarkable acrobatic stunts. Furthermore, Mickey Mouse is here again in another Walt Disney comedy, a good...
...Sonnets which are still the highest peak in the jagged outline of English literature. But there remain many mysterious gaps in Shakespeare's personal history. Who, for instance, was the famed Dark Lady of the Sonnets Bernard Shaw and the late Frank Harris "proved" she was Mary Fitton, maid-of-honor at Elizabeth's court. Countess de Chambrun (Cincinnati-born sister of the late Nicholas Longworth) thinks the Dark Lady was Mistress Nan Davenant, wife of an Oxford innkeeper...
...theme of this comedy is well supported by the cast. Laurette Bullivant as the jilted flancee produces an excellent burlesque of Ophelia, "Whiskey, that's for forgetfulness!" Grayce Hampton, the maid who has lived with the family so long that she now runs it, gestures agreeably the more so when she is drunk. Miss Frederick, her majesty, handles her role with great sophistication and taste, and with scarcely a single let-down. The other support is adequate...
...ghost of a hanged pirate comes back for a last family evening with his adoring old-maid sisters...
...York Lotte Lehmann lives simply at the Essex House facing Central Park. She keeps no maid, shops at Macy's. There last week she bought coffee and stockings to take home to her friends. Two New York friendships of which she is particularly proud are with Arturo Toscanini and Geraldine Farrar. Toscanini, who has small patience with most singers, goes to all her performances. She did not recognize Farrar when first she saw her in the front row at her last year's concert. The oldtime singer was listening so intently, so sympathetically that Lehmann found herself addressing...