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...Glass Slipper. Think of Cinderella if her dream had not come true. Think of Cinderella in the guise of a dreamy servant girl of Budapest; in love with a grey-haired prince, who scolded her cruelly and ate potatoes with his knife. Think finally of Cinderella serving at his wedding to a greedy old harridan with money. Under such circumstances Cinderella might have taken to the streets. Molnar's did. There was a final act in a police court, in which the beauty and the poignancy of her suffering grew to a glowing climax...
June Walker, giving her second performance in a play which may be conventionally described as emotional as opposed to the farce roles she played so entertainingly, is extraordinarily effective. Last year it was Processional she did so well. It is to be feared that The Glass Slipper will have a limited appeal, as did that biting experiment. Yet the time is coming when she will find a play that is popular as well as cutting and profound. Then will she be known through the length at the fourth performance, and it is now nearly harmless?even to and breadth...
...young woman was crossing a street, right foot, left foot, across asphalt sticky with heat. Turned a traffic signal, charged down on her two lines of motors. Alarmed, she stood still. Her heels sank into the tar, were held fast. She gave a lurch. Her foot came from her slipper. She put her steaming foot back into her slipper, wrenched once more, and once more it slipped out, causing her to lose her balance, plunge her foot into the tar which gripped her stocking as she wrestled, dragged it half off. For a moment she balanced, storklike, on a single...
...Paris, one Marie Lenay, soubrette, was dancing with an awkward man. He stepped on her foot. She glared. Again he stumbled over her. She hissed a warning to him. Once more the dolt set his boot upon her slipper. Mile. Lenay drew a knife from her stocking, thrust it into his vitals. Over his prostrate form, while the gendarmes closed around her, she said: "Learn about dancing before you come to me again...
...Johnson, however, was known to have removed ladies' shoes. At a dinner table he would absently stoop down and twitch off the slipper of his dinner-partner, says Thomas Babington Macaulay...