Word: parlormaid
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...orchestrations to these just-short-of-classic Gershwin songs; and Rob Ashford staged some sublimely silly choreography. (My notes read, "six dancing couples form a giant pretzel," but I may have been hallucinating.) In a nifty cast, I especially liked Felicia Finley, who played Magda the saucy parlormaid. Finley has looks, a voice and that ageless soubrette pertness - the total musical comedy package. But then, that's what you almost always get at Encores...
...soon fades out of the scene, is confounded. At the age of six, for example, Benedick inquires, "What's a prostitute?" Peregrine knows: "A lady with high heels and a tight satin skirt and dyed hair." Replies Benedick: "Oh, like the housemaids. Have you noticed the new parlormaid's bosom?" Their mother demands to know what they are jabbering about. "Ladies," says Peregrine. "They call them intercourse on the news bulletins." Mrs. Corbett retaliates by marching the boys to church, and there, as a child chorister passes by, swinging incense, Peregrine remarks, "Excuse me, but your handbag...
...Rose, is looking noble. Upstairs, Lady Marjorie is reigning once more as empress of the morning room, stopping from time to time to arch an autocratic eyebrow at Husband Richard Bellamy. Daughter Elizabeth has caught a bad case of socialism, and Son James is dallying with Sarah, the underhouse parlormaid. Keeping everyone in place, of course, is the butler Hudson, better known as the admirable Hudson...
...Sixth Happiness. Ingrid Bergman as a London parlormaid called by God to be a missionary in China. Though blooped out to fill the Cinema-Scope screen, the story itself is strongly moving...
...Sixth Happiness. Ingrid Bergman as a London parlormaid called by God to be a missionary in China. Though blooped out to fill the Cinema-Scope screen and tingle the mass public, the story itself is strongly moving...