Word: servante
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When Mrs. Miles Poindexter, wife of the onetime (1923-28) U. S. Ambassador to Peru, returned to Washington from Lima she brought with her one Cornelius, capable Peruvian servant. She was pleased with Cornelius, but Cornelius was not pleased with his salary. Consulting Alfredo Gonzalez-Prada. Charge d'Affaires and First Counselor of the Peruvian Embassy, he learned that in the U. S. no servants are "indentured," that all can do as they please. He also learned that Senor Gonzalez-Prada wanted a servant. Thereupon Cornelius left the Poindexter household, went to the Prada household. Vexed, used...
Wrote Sergeant Secrett, for 25 years personal servant of the late Field Marshal Earl Haig: "He had that little peculiarity about him-he hated parting with actual coin of the realm...
...spite of everything but for the dialog-line after awkward line recited in singsong and divided from the next by little fences of silence. Twin Beds is partially redeemed by one tune, "If You Were Mine" and by a few seconds of Zasu Pitts as a half-witted servant-girl. Typical shots: a drunk caught in a revolving door; Miss Miller's stage father falling off a piano stool...
...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...