Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comes home. Inside this gloomy framework dances the life of the lovely Russian countryside. You see how the people get married, do their work, say hello and goodbye. The Soviet propaganda is reduced to a little dose at the very end. Best shots: dressing the bride; the lecherous servant-woman in the hayloft; moving wheat on a windy day on the steppe; a family eating cabbage soup; the old man coming back from town...
...dragged her out of that old life. Lolo's fiance appeals to her as Hans Grill ennobled. She does not believe with Hans that "no life, even the most ideal, is possible in which for some hours every day there is not a smell of potato-soup." A servant-girl's Utopia, that! Thus the love of wife and husband becomes a subtle struggle, noble v. peasant. When Hans drowns, she takes up with a dwarf of a man whose only attractions are his title, his philosophy, his offer to take her to some island made for dreaming...
Audience refuses to be horrified, insists on laughing. Margaret Wycherly plays the part of a red-headed servant who knows more than she tells...
...tires) Du Cros's comfortable stucco Craigwell House. Standing by the door were butlers, footmen, cooks, grooms, gardeners, royal marines-all who had served and guarded the King during his illness. Through the door came Their Majesties, snugly buttoned up, and as they passed down the line each servant received either a gold stickpin or a pair of gold cufflinks, blue enameled with the royal monogram. Into the car behind the King's stepped Sir Stanley Hewett, His Majesty's physician, and four trained nurses entered another automobile. The three cars moved...
...model house which the inventor shows consists of five rooms. Arrangements are made so that the servant problem is solved by having most of the household work done automatically. One of the features of the plan is the electric washer which washes and dries clothes within three minutes after they are placed in it. The library contains all kinds of maps, a moving picture projector, typewriters, and a mimeograph as well as various other handy means of getting knowledge...