Word: maides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bean pictures? There must be dozens of them left about the place. They are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Duped out of a pair of Beans he has in his house, the amiable doctor becomes frantic in his search for the paintings, which no one save the maid, Abby (Pauline Lord), has ever cherished. For a while it looks as if Mrs. Haggett had burned the pictures, that the only thing to do is swindle Abby out of her own portrait. Then the pictures.are found-and Abby blows the whole greedy plot to bits with an astonishing revelation...
...Toulouse lawyer who appropriated and revived it under the reign of Napoleon I, is omitted by the Almanack de Gotha. Pet of the Press, he fell into his last illness when, all in one day, his pet French bulldog Bouboule (last of a series) died and a maid was killed falling downstairs...
...flighty parents, who never really have time to hear anything she has to say about their daughter, she contrives to get the girl into the country where an accouchement is secretly effected. It is then that the reason for Mademoiselle's benefaction comes to light. An old maid, she has always wanted a baby. She is welcome to Christine's. Her father welcomes her with jewelry, a motor car, a big party, even a little wine- but no cigarets. "There are some things," he jovially admonishes her, "you must not know about...
...sorry," she said, "but my maid says she danced with several of you young men last night and simply can't bring herself to wait on you. She says she went to a carnival and danced with lots of young gentlemen...
...certain faults the University's other offering, "Blondie of the Follies," has certain incontrovertible merits. Its plot is the outworn story of the successful showgirl, the like of which Miss, Davies has played at least twice, probably oftener, but the lively lines save it. When one sees the Maid Marion in her usual role of a minx, it is clear why her pictures appear so often on the pages of Hearst's Cosmopolitan and in the Boston American. Of course an unfeeling and unsympathetic director made Miss Davies show maternal instinct over a dog, a part difficult to reconcile with...