Word: valet
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After linen tablecloths and napkins had been cleared from the Adams House dining hall, Gerrick's "The Lying Valet" was presented under the direction of Robert F. Metzdorr, resident fellow, and Seymour O. Simches, instructor in Romance Languages...
...familiar character as in comic invention. As always, Benny played the foil for the acid comment of his wife, Mary Livingstone, the booming illiteracy of Bandleader Phil Harris, the naive malevolence of Singer Dennis Day, and the jaundiced animadversions of Eddie Anderson as Rochester, Benny's valet. There were indications that Benny was using his radio time as a dry run for his TV debut next month: the biggest laughs from the studio audience came from sight gags about a milk-horse that were an imposition on millions of radio listeners...
...most ardent Hope fans. The film is a cluttered catchall of mossy gags, pratfalls and comedy routines dating back to Mack Sennett and before. Hope is still the fumbling poltroon, this time a ham actor who masquerades as a gentleman's gentleman in England, then becomes a real valet masquerading in the Wild West as a British earl. He caricatures snobbery and braggadocio, unfailingly spills tea trays all over an English hostess, unwittingly courts death at the hands of a cowboy villain (Bruce Cabot) and becomes the prey of a pack of mongrels drafted for a sagebrush foxhunt...
Final announcement of the cast was made yesterday. John G. Kerr '52 will play Figaro, the valet in love with a lady-in-waiting (Ailene Presman...
...notable ghost story to chill the blood: it has become a kind of highbrow mystery story to challenge the mind. Pre-Freudian but often strikingly akin to Freud, it hints at something sexual in the governess' feeling for the boy, at something homosexual between the boy and the valet. It has been explained, a little too ingeniously, as a pure hallucination of the governess'. But first, last and always, it is a ghost story; and ghosts owe their audiences only an experience, not an explanation...