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...guillotine out of a camera shutter, beheaded the marionettes. Laughton's next theatrical disaster came at the age of eight: his mother surprised him in a large linen closet, where, dressed in pillowslips and sheets, he was performing dramatic solos before a captive audience of one entranced pantrymaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Happy Ham | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...Pacific because she had been born in Germany, had not become naturalized until after war broke out. But, knowing that her husband was somewhere in the Southwest Pacific, determined Mrs. Shake finally persuaded the captain of a Norwegian freighter, bound for Sydney, to sign her on as a pantrymaid in the officers' mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Shot in the Dark | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

Last week Pantrymaid Shake, first civilian wife to visit her husband overseas, was on her way back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Shot in the Dark | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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