Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Englewood. N. J., on the highlands opposite Manhattan, is a community of wealthy burghers, like Banker Seward Prosser, Editor Bertie Charles Forbes, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, Mental Hygienist Clifford Whittingham Beers, onetime Second Assistant Postmaster General Warren Irving Glover, Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow. Intelligent, they make certain, when they hire servants, that the help are healthy. But they cannot be sure with whom their employes run around on off days. This became shockingly evident when Dr. John Hawkins Irwin, Englewood health director, traced the eye infections and subsequent blindness of several Englewood children to gonorrhea in their nursemaids. So Englewood burghers...
...avaricious wife (Beulah Bondi), his daughters and the family retainer (Marie Dressier), produces an unusually dextrous and amusing comedy, partly in the mood of Moliere farce, as it exposes greed and ingratitude in Dr. Haggett, partly as romance when it turns out that the Raggett's old-maid servant is not only the subject of a magnificent Bean portrait but also Bean's widow, tenderly devoted to his memory...
...mildly impaired by scenes such as a wild ride in a dilapidated Ford and a preposterous interlude in a Pullman car, inserted to give Marie Dressier a chance to execute her comic chompings, blinkings and shoulder twitchings. Good shot: Beulah Bondi, when she wants him to cheat their old servant, urging Lionel Barrymore to think with his eyes closed...
...play has one set and three characters, all women. Besides Miss Nazimova, they include Dr. Monica's lady architect roommate (Gale Sondergaard) and a pregnant servant girl (Beatrice de Neergaard) whom Miss Nazimova takes in. Nazimova has been giving her husband a dose of solitude to "strengthen" him, meanwhile undergoing an operation to enable her to have a child by him. Demoralized by the operation, she is further demoralized to learn that the father of the servant girl's unborn child is her philandering husband. Good study of lower middle-class psychology is the scene in which...
Just arrived in the hotel sitting room for a repertory season, the actors rehearse a tear-jerking scene setting forth the fact that the illegitimate child of one by the other is dead. A servant girl, unnerved by such talk, blats out the information that she has in fact had an illegitimate child that died. The rehearsal is forgotten but the lively news cannonades through the town. After several weeks of watching the stock company's delightfully gloomy goings-on at the local theatre, the townspeople with one mind begin to fancy themselves as great tragic figures with...