Word: spinsterism
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Williamstown, Mass., Summer Theater: Toys in the Attic, with Anne Revere abandoning her Broadway role of the unworldly spinster Anna to attempt Irene Worth's cool, sophisticated Albertine...
MISS ESTA MAUDE'S SECRET (story and pictures by W. T. Cummings; Whittlesey House; $3.25) is as American as Our Town. Esta Maude Hay is a spinster schoolteacher who lives in a rickety house on the edge of town, with two cats, a goldfish and a parrot. She dresses in black and drives a black, vintage tin lizzie, known as "Miss Esta Maude's machine." But Esta Maude has a flaming secret vice, a racy, sin-red sports car that she drives like the wind of a Friday midnight. Author-Illustrator Cummings manages to be folksy, foxy...
...detailed story of his success (when he wins his first noble patron), his failure (when his celebrated Night Watch insults prominent members of the local militia, whose faces he partially hid in the background), and his Job-like sufferings. One by one, father, mother, crippled brother and spinster sister go to their graves. Three children are either stillborn or die in infancy before a sickly son survives. Then the wife dies, the child's loving nurse goes mad, an apprentice is blown to smithereens in an accident. All this Author Schmitt tells, and sometimes poignantly. But long before...
...spinster who unapologetically "traded on my love for children," Miss Hewitt prospered. Her love of the theater encouraged such later stars as Julie Harris and Lee Remick (class of '53), while her firm stage manager's hand gave it the reputation as a "good solid school for girls," which attracted Oveta Gulp Hobby's daughter Jessica, Edsel Ford's daughter Dodie, and 489 other graduates whose fathers paid fees up to $1,300 a year for day sessions and $3,000 for boarding...
...Hugh enters the priesthood, possibly in disgust at his father's tactics, but comes to hate his parishioners as much as he does his father, and dies of a hemorrhaging ulcer. Another son cravenly sponges off the old man. The eldest daughter becomes Charlie's spinster slave, while a spunkier daughter, Helen, marries a pompous doctor just to escape from the house...