Word: washerwoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story casts French Actor Michel Simon as an old, overstuffed priest. A village washerwoman (Sylvie) tells him that she is 62, tired and alone. For uncounted years she has turned out every morning at 5 to kneel washing clothes until dark, stopping only for a little bread and oil. Would the father and the church now mercifully grant her leave to take her own life? Another story is a screen version of Novelist Alberto Moravia's II Pupo. A straitened young couple have had one baby too many. They try to abandon it in a church, but it cries...
...Pygmalion Treatment. To his mounting horror, Sir Percy learns that Lady L. was born Annette Boudin, the daughter of a Paris washerwoman. In due course, like most of the girls of her street, she became a prostitute. But she was beautiful, and soon the top banana of French anarchists. Armand Denis, gave her the Pygmalion treatment. He made a lady of her so that she could play with the very rich and arrange burglaries to finance Armand's assassination plans for the good of humanity...
...Washerwoman & Kaiser. The Monacan succession has been fairly tenuous in recent decades. Prince Albert I (1848-1922), an oceanographer of world renown, was the first prince of Monaco to marry an American pirl, New Orleans-born Alice Heine. Albert's son by an earlier marriage, Prince Louis II, caused a dynastic dither when, while serving as a lieutenant in a spahi regiment of the French army in North Africa, he met and married the pretty daughter of a washerwoman who, in due course, presented him with a daughter. Albert stonily refused to recognize his grandchild, and threatened to disinherit...
...Golden Horseshoe, the place usually reserved for visiting statesmen and royalty, sat a small, aged lady who had once been a washerwoman in Philadelphia. Her name was Anna Anderson. As a girl, her daughter dreamed of singing in this great gilt and plush house. Now, at 52, Contralto Marian Anderson was realizing the dream. The first Negro singer to appear at the Metropolitan, she was making her debut in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera...
Mahalia Jackson was born in a Negro shack in New Orleans in 1911 and went to work as a washerwoman at 13. Even earlier, the thing she loved best was to sing in the congregation of her Baptist church. "All around me I could hear the feet tapping and the hands clapping. That gave me bounce. I liked it much better than being up in the choir singing the anthem. I liked to sing the songs the folks sing which testify to the glory of the Lord-those anthems are too dead and cold...