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...rugged enough to be used on the dining table. George I coffeepots go for as high as $15,000 and George II candlesticks for $3,000, largely because any host can not only use them, but be more than proud to display them. (What housewife dares entrust to a maid, or even herself, the washing of a Ming plate or a Meissen cup?) Some private collectors are charmed by the nostalgia that exudes from an emblazoned baronial crest, enchanted by the social history implicit in a snuffbox and fascinated by the expertise needed to decipher the silversmith's hallmarks...
...various relatives pursue each other in preposterous shifting triangles like the occupants of a French bedroom farce. They even fight a mock duel. Most kinetic is a cheerful, kindly son-in-law named Danby in whose house Bruno is dying. Danby begins by sharing his bed with Adelaide the maid, then flirts with his brother-in-law's wife and finally consorts with an ex-nun named Lisa. She and a forbearing homosexual nurse called Nigel are the enigmatic characters, familiar in Murdoch fiction, who stir the emotional chemistry of the others into molecular groupings and regroupings...
...settled into domesticity, but in 1946 resumed her career in Miracle on 34th Street, portraying an irate mother haranguing a Macy's Santa Claus. Her sad face and sagging form soon became familiar screen fixtures. She was nominated for an Oscar as Bette Davis' wryly sagacious maid in All About Eve, for the tart relief she brought to such confections as The Mating Season (1951) and Pillow Talk (1959) and for three other roles, but never won the award. Said Thelma: "I'm the William Jennings Bryan of acting...
Ionesco's Maid to Marry shares the second act with Apple Bit, and director Mary King Austin chose just the right juxtaposition. Its eminently civilized lady and gentleman are quite absurd. They sit on a 1950's park bench and vacillate between violently tearing up the Times and making profound comments on professions, future, past, ungrateful children. Not a wild west thriller by any means. Still, the patter's amusing...
...Hate. However, the women of the play-a farmer's wife, his daughter and his maid-are delighted with this "saucy bird." O'Casey saw the repressed and persecuted Irish female as the repository of all that was open and joyous and life-loving in his native land. The conflict between them and the naysaying, money-hungry men is the essential drama of Cock-A-Doodle Dandy -with Protestant O'Casey's pet hate, the Roman Catholic Church, as archvillain. In the end, the women are roughed up and driven away to find "a place where...