Word: maids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original described a masked ball at which the vulgar Prince Prospero and all his company succumb when Death appears disguised as a plague victim. In the elegant, elongated movie version, Prospero is a Satanist who scourges the entire 12th century countryside. He tortures peasants, tries to corrupt a village maid, and lets his pet dwarf barbecue a guest. Fortunately, by the time Death gets to the party, most of the nicer people have fled...
...herself. And Luci Baines is so appealing and feminine that there will always be some man around wanting to make a living for her." Well meant as it was, Lyndon's appraisal drew criticism from both girls. Lynda complained he had implied that she would be an old maid: Luci pouted that he had hinted she wasn't too bright...
...jewels ajangle, a one-woman spectacular. She sees her darling at play, drops into her deep-fried Southern drawl and issues what must be the last word in ultrapermissive Momism: "Please put the money you don't want back in the safe-I don't want the maid to find the room in this curious state...
...wedding, the man she is engaged to leaves for America and does not return; the woman grows old in the delusion that some day he will come back to her. Time is the real protagonist. Language gives the play its life. "Everything is finished," says the old maid. "Yet I go to bed and get up again with the most terrible of all feelings-the feeling of having hope. Hope pursues me, encircles me, bites me; like a dying wolf tightening his grip for the last time...
...sweetness and chastity, however. The maid (Bina Breitner) is having a not-so-discreet fling with a beatnik named Claude (Larry Gonick), and even Mother's cardinal virtues melt quickly into carnal pleasures in his agreeable arms...