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...each of their homes. Thus they need travel with nothing more than the clothing on their backs ("You don't have to waste time in customs, and you don't have to declare anything. It's wonderful!") and, of course, their constant retinue-two chefs, kitchen maid, personal maid, valet and three chambermaids-who can lug any last-minute packages...
Murder, She Said (M-G-M), "I'm the new maid." At this apparently innocuous announcement, the lady of the house looks up to smile a welcome. Her jaw drops. In the doorway stands a domestic disaster. The torso suggests a pup tent full of Jell-0, the hair looks like something dumped out of a vacuum cleaner, the chin resembles the business end of an ax, the eyes slide around like eggs on a plate, the tiny mouth might almost be a third nostril. The legs-it somehow comes as a surprise that there are only...
When Ruth Gikow decided to study art at Manhattan's Cooper Union 29 years ago, she had one goal in mind: "I wanted to do commercial art and make a lot of money so I could have a French maid." Today, Ruth Gikow, who is the wife of Painter Jack Levine, still has no French maid, but the sacrifice has not been in vain. Last week 26 of her paintings were on view at Manhattan's Nordness Gallery-forthrightly figurative works that mostly seemed as personal as pages from a diary...
...family west shortly after the Soviet revolution. The family roamed about Europe for a while, spent a year at a gypsy camp outside Bucharest, finally settled down on New York's Lower East Side-where it is natural for an imaginative girl to long for a French maid...
...girls are just as good. Linda Bauer skillfully portrays Lucy, the maid, as an engaging, tough little tramp, and Shelia Stannard (Alithea), in spite of some awkward moments, makes an art form out of blandness. Tam Miller as Margery Pinchwife is magificently dumb, and leaps around the stage like an oversexed gnome. As for Emilie Rahman as Lady Fidget--boy, that Emilie Rahman. She is the best thing in the play as the wise-cracking, tough-talking Lady-always-in-waiting...