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...noticeable arrhythmia (irregular beating) when the doctor mentioned his in-laws; a woman patient's heart began skipping when the doctors referred to her illegitimate child; the same sort of extrasystoles (premature contractions of the heart) showed up on the electrocardiograph when they asked a 61-year-old spinster why she had never married...
...Choreographer De Mille's first all-out try at murder. She had long been fascinated by the story of Lizzie Borden, the Fall River (Mass.) spinster who was tried in the '90s for the ax murder of her father and stepmother. Last year ("because I was feeling gloomy and murderous") she started building a ballet to show in Freudian terms how a young girl might get worked up to murder. One difference: her heroine commits the murders onstage and hangs; Lizzie Borden was acquitted...
...been to the U.S. only once, to teach at Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr, and that was 39 years ago. Most of her days are spent in tutoring, writing, helping edit the Cambridge Historical Journal, keeping the university archives, and campaigning energetically for the Labor Party. Social life? Says Spinster Cam: "I don't have any. Too busy...
...Maid was originally written for the perishable market place of radio. It is a near-slapstick story of a small-town spinster who plays hostess to a hobo until he runs off with her maid and car. The libretto is a gag-writer's dream, filled with skillful swoons (by Marie Powers, star of The Medium), gay tunes, and amateur-theatrical hamming. The audience loved every minute of it, right down to the final clinch and the hero's preposterous curtain line-"Your mouth is an abyss...
Died. Princess Helena Victoria, 77, spinster granddaughter of Queen Victoria; first cousin once removed of George VI ; after long illness ; in London. A bright court figure in her youth, she helped hasten the change from the conservative Victorian to the gay Edwardian era by sporting colorful clothes, dancing the latest steps, taking in dog races and speaking her mind frankly in public...