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...decision will affect only undergraduate Houses and dorms. Tutors and graduate students are served by a separate maid service...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: Room-Cleaning Service Reduced, But Baths Still Swabbed Weekly | 9/29/1966 | See Source »

...national embarrassment. As a historical personage, she inspired more fiction than fact with her bizarre ways. Greta Garbo played her on the screen in 1934 as a vamp who went disguised as a man, washed her face with snow, and proclaimed that she expected to die "not an old maid but a bachelor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions,: Bachelor Queen | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

Joyce Sonnenblick appears as the professor's maid in a complete break from her role in the Shaw. But, again, she appears to have been cast much more appropriately; she becomes just the sort of ineffectual individual the part calls...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Double Bill at the Loeb | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

Patricia Peardon makes a beautiful Olivia, though she is not at ease with her lines; and the veils she and her retinue wear when Viola-Cesario first visits her ought to be far less transparent. Elizabeth Parrish needs to invest the part of Olivia's maid Maria with more vivacity. Fabian, her male counterpart, fails in the hands of Julian Miller to leave much of any impression...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: STRATFORD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: II | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...soon has Elke bathing at his remote woodland cottage. "The biggest thing in bathtubs since rings," he says, snatching every conversational gambit from a store of one-line gags that often sound like a prelude to a friendly word from his sponsor. As Hope's mop-topped maid, Phyllis cleans up the house, dirties up the jokes, and delivers her own brand of kitcheny self-deprecation. There is never the slightest doubt that her next job will be a sell-out nightclub engagement in Vegas, and any viewer who thinks that's funny may be able to swallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Media AAix-Match | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

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