Word: menials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musical show all her own. Again the attempt is incomplete. It is every body's fault but Miss Lillie's. It is chiefly the fault of the men who wrote the jokes. Too often they are not jokes at all but matter like "I'm not a menial, if you get what I menial." There are inevitably excellent Tiller girls and a scattering of capable supporters and a plot about a man who had to pretend he was husband and father to inherit wealthy grandfather's gold. Nearly everyone agreed that Miss Lillie's surroundings are superfluous. Yet when...
...What is left are attractive scenery, one or two bits of good acting, a few, isolated, clever lines. Vladimir Dubriski (Basil Rathbone), silky-suave Grand Duke in exile, is tumbled into Manhattan's gaucherie, faced with the dilemma of marrying a bloated divorcee of means or engaging in menial service for a livelihood. In a last act silhouette, he is represented donning his tall high hat, preparatory to sitting elegantly upon the dilemma's second horn...
...acrid commentary and allusion which flows from the narrow lips of a prize fighter's manager reflects most of the merriment. This manager and his deplorably dense lightweight are abruptly added to the menial quota of a haughty home on Fifth Avenue. They fall in love with others of the servants; they stir up a resounding second-act fight that would do credit to any picture play; they win the love match and the lightweight championship of the world...
...been the prosequor of those instructors who demand in no uncertain voices that themes be written in black ink. The artist in this case might have been a gentleman, suffering from a suppressed blue desire, taking steps to relieve the complex. Or Ben might have been a tradesman's menial sent shivering into the yard in a heroic attempt to collect a bill. He might even have been a frivolous friend, whose staggering foot-steps led to the locked door of the artist,--where Carnival had ceded to Social Ethics for the evening...
That Massachusetts Hall, after two centuries of service should be put to such menial use shows a strange lack of appreciation. The building deserves a peaceful and honorable old age, certainly not one of ignominious drudgery...