Word: washwoman
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...late "Madame" Sarah J. Walker, St. Louis Negro washwoman who grew rich from sales of a straightener of kinky hair, built a $250,000 mansion in New York City's socialite suburb Irvington-on-Hudson and furnished it for $350,000. Last week "Madame" Walker's rich heir, Mrs. Lelia Walker Robinson, ordered the furnishings auctioned. Mrs. Mamie Pratt, friend of "Madame's," bought three black pillows for her Harlem undertaking establishment. A gold-leaf piano brought $450, a gold-leaf phonograph $45. Women fought for nicknacks. Total sales...
...stage last year and had a good run. It is better as a picture than it was as a play because the mechanics of the modern camera help Bert Lytell to play his dual role of twin orphans-one adopted by a family of wealth, the other by a washwoman. Instead of making a quick trip offstage before coming on as the older brother, he now looks at himself, argues with himself, hits himself, picks himself up, carries himself off the set. Most monotonous shot: Mr. Lytell's profile...