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Word: usheress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Fairy, Lu (Helen Hayes) describes herself as ''an unemployed glow-worm," which means that she is a cinemansion usheress out of work. She meets a rich industrialist who wants her for his mistress. Spectators are asked to believe that Lu likes the idea largely because she will be able to become the benefactress of some unknown man, anybody. From her chrysalis the big-hearted glowworm emerges as a good fairy. She picks up a telephone directory, looks up the name of a lawyer, tells her patron that he is her husband and that she will expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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