Word: housemaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, radio reached the end of another fried-egg hunt. Since her introduction to Fibber McGee's cluttered household in 1944, fat, jolly, colored Beulah, the housemaid, had been impersonated by two thin, tense, white men. Now, at long last, the new Beulah show (CBS, Mon.-Fri., 7 p.m., E.S.T.) had a Beulah that was really fat, jolly and colored: Cinemactress Hattie McDaniel. Everyone agreed that she made an ideal Beulah...
Unschooled Prose. It is equally remarkable to get such pure prose from a young (28) woman who never got beyond primary school. Normandy-born Madeleine Couppey was born in poverty, became a housemaid in her early teens. At 16 she was washing cars in a Paris garage...
Some of this story could better "be embroidered on a housemaid's knee than on film. But the picture's writers, director and musicians have done some effective things with sound (heartbeats, exaggerated rain, distorted musical flashbacks, etc.) and with storytelling; they have even risked confusing the audience by taking it a little way inside Joan's split sense of reality. Other moviemakers ought to take more such risks: the results are much more exciting than confusing...
...Philadelphia, the housemaid shortage was slightly bettered when a pioneer contingent of eight wide-eyed Puerto Rican women flew in, promptly scattered to local homes where they were guaranteed at least a year's employment. Their sponsor: Philadelphia Employment Agent Edgar Rolle, who spotted the remote womanpower pool, arranged with the Puerto Rican Government to fly the domestics...
Last week they came as usual to the paper-windowed bungalow in Tokyo's Harajuku district, but no one answered their knocking. They peeked inside. There, in a blood-soaked pile of quilts and blankets, lay Nizaemon, his wife, his baby, an old housemaid, and an 11-year-old servant girl. Tossed into Nizaemon's garden was an ax, sticky with gore...