Word: slavey
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that is, she sobbed in the right manner, she limped effectively, and she sat in her steamer chair gloriously. Miss Zelda Sears as Mrs. Merrivale and Miss Louise Drew as Clementine contributed the only real humor of the evening. The former, a much bemedecined hyprochondriac, and the latter, her slavey daughter, were presented by the author with bits of dialogue which succeeded in extracting laughs from the audience, although some few lines smacked too much of a close perusal of medical text-books. Such books should be on the Index Expurgatorum, as far as the general public and dramatists...
...pity that there should be included in every play that even touches on an English household the pitiable and ridiculous figure of the love-sick slavey. There must be growing up a professional caste of those who from mother and daughter take this role. It is perhaps why such passable ability of that of Miss Bryton is in this case wasted. Also the hero (we call Mr. Powers the buffoon) rushes through his sentences with rapidity which we may only explain by assuming that he knows their worthlessness and superfluity. There used to be a tradition of a certain American...
...situation or line livens much that would be otherwise drearily dull. Mr. Browne is a sincere, politely humorous hero, and unheard of as it is for a stage hero--seems entirely a gentleman. The life below-stairs is well drawn and most capably acted. Miss de Becker, as the slavey, has a most unusual and agreeable comedy personality. Her work is careful, natural and is, moreover, never in bad taste, though it realizes each opportunity for laughter. The butler is over-stressed at times, and his make-up shrieks of burlesque. The others of the cast serve admirably to fill...