Word: shopgirls
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...young African typist or shopgirl in Uganda, marriage can represent a fate worse than death...
...late great Albert Basserman dragged her off on a tour of Europe to play Gretchen to his Faust. By 1950 she was in a flood tide of some of the weepiest (and most popular) German pictures ever made. This was her Seelchenperiode as a leidender Engel (suffering angel), the shopgirl's ideal, when the Schell smile was as famous in Germany as the Monroe walkaway was in the U.S. Maria and Dieter Borsche, with whom she was starred in Es Kommt Ein Tag, were the "ideal couple" of Lieschen Müller (the Jane Doe of Central Europe), whose...
William Sidney Porter was an alcoholic, a liar, a convicted embezzler. He betrayed his friends, deserted his family, fled the U.S. to escape prosecution, seldom paid his debts, deceived both his wives, and led many a simple shopgirl down the garden path. Yet, as O. Henry, he also wrote some of literature's most engaging short stories, and he had a grace of mind and manner that won nearly all who met him. Even one of his mothers-in-law said fervently: "Will was a noble man with a true heart...
...that point it is plain that the famed author of Rebecca has not lost her tricky gift for making the reader hold his breath when literary esthetes tell him he should be holding his nose. To her romantic shopgirl's imagination. Novelist Du Maurier brings a proficiency for making imminent doom race impending revelation neck and neck, chapter by chapter. Loyal fans need only be told that they will be nervous wrecks by the end of The Scapegoat...
...travel. The "chamber orchestra" of the august Vienna State Opera bravely buckles down to the hurdy-gurdy score with its plinky-plink banjos, but it is played with excruciating slowness. The star is a charming Viennese nightclub chanteuse named Liane, who sounds less like Polly Peachum than an operetta shopgirl mooning over an archduke. The record does have its high spots, notably the duet between the prostitute Jenny and her pimp. To a wistful tango melody they...