Word: maids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...person George Bernard Shaw asked to meet at a 1926 Riviera party full of glitterati. On being introduced to the pert, poised lady, Shaw cut to her tragic core as he turned and said wonderingly to Woollcott, "I'd always thought of her as an old maid...
Director Robert Woodruff shares the staging credit with his performers, notably the Flying Karamazov Brothers, a quintet of juggling comics who play the servants, the masters and Shakespeare himself, looking on in mounting disbelief. Nobody here is precisely acting, but Karla Burns as a lovestruck maid, Randy Nelson as a sly servant, Howard Jay Patterson as one of the masters and Sophie Hayden as his wife all appear to have -- and give -- a roaring good time. -- W.A.H...
...Bakker would have it, the coffers are nearly empty. There is no more maid service, and PTL is to cut off all money as of June. Even so, the house is still redolent of wealth: the shiny black Schaefer & Sons grand piano with a golden candelabrum on top, the Chinese porcelain tea service, the collection of figurines, the bodyguards and bustling assistants. If the Bakkers are running dry, it certainly doesn't show...
...actress playing Mrs. Drudge, the maid of all work, was moving the thing towards me, foot by foot, in order to dust behind it. I was supposed to be lying a foot or two in front of it as the action began, but in my nervousness I had miscalculated and arranged myself a good eight feet away. Accordingly, it took Betsy several minutes of heaving and dusting before she was in a position to lift the couch over my body. The suspense was unpleasant...
Today the group is putting the finishing touches on the Hoagie, built for a family out to express itself in a big way. Besides the twelve-room, 10,000- sq.-ft. house, the complex includes a separate guesthouse and separate caretaker's house (both shaped like smaller hoagies), maid's quarters and a swimming pool. There's even a gift-wrapping room."Hey, don't look at me," says Badanes. "The guy's got a lot of kids and a lot of birthday parties." But right now, the dilemma is over what car grille to order for the fireplace...