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...take them home." Not long ago Leone Ackerly, 31, a bored middle-class housewife, decided to hire herself out as a maid. Her mother went into shock. Now Ackerly runs a string of six cleaning services. "My mother just thinks I'm the smartest thing since the mousetrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/sexes: The Belle: Magnolia and Iron | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...trusts would tax the brains of her two famous detectives, M. Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. In addition, Agatha Christie had already given away millions to her family. Her only grandson, Mathew Prichard, 32, was eight years old when she presented him with sole rights to The Mousetrap, the world's longest-running play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dame Agatha: Queen of the Maze | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...Mousetrap is staged in the Leverett Old Library Theater, a sort of "theater in the square," where seats flank the stage on four sides. Careful blocking, however, keeps the audience from spending too much time contemplating actors' backs...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Cheese Without Holes | 11/6/1975 | See Source »

...world of The Mousetrap is peopled with immature, often exaggerated characters, who rationalize their idiosyncracies by suggesting that "perhaps it's fun to be crazy." The mark of this production's success is that it half-persuades us to accept this premise, if only for the night...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Cheese Without Holes | 11/6/1975 | See Source »

...Mousetrap. A pleasant enough production of an Agatha Christie murder mystery about eight people snow-bound in a manor house. The play, which has been running continuously in London for 23 years or so, is hardly weighty intellectual fare. The Leverett House Arts Society production, however, boasts a fine cast, directed with a comic touch by Evangeline Morphos, who did Arms and the Man at the Loeb last spring. Performances in the Leverett House Old Library, November...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: THE STAGE | 11/6/1975 | See Source »

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