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Almost nothing may be legally thrown into the street, ice, hair, mud: you can't even beat a carpet there, or tie a horse to a tree...
...whose reenactment then follows. Act I discloses the lonely Essex household of Mrs. Bramson (May Whitty), a querulous, malingering old lady who keeps in genteel British bondage her penniless and emotionally suffocated niece Olivia (Angela Baddeley). When the maid complains of pregnancy and her seducer is called on the carpet, he turns out to be Dan (Author Williams), cocky, ingratiating, cigaret-mouthing bellboy from a nearby hotel in which a woman has been sensationally done to death. Dan cajoles old Mrs. Bramson so skilfully that he be comes her constant attendant. Olivia be comes progressively aware that...
...between this superman, and the Kansan who, according to New Dealish Washington, doesn't know the difference between international affairs and the plow business. Minnesota, one of the pivotal States, will choose the man who "stared at the carpet, pondered a full five minutes...
...your story and that is the reference, "this (South Carolina) once aristocratic State." Why once? Although the State is full of riff-raff from the North Carolina mountains, poor white trash from Georgia's Tobacco Roads, and its own degenerate offspring of former plantation overseers and Yankee carpet baggers, there is still plenty of Palmetto aristocracy not only in the low country but in the sand hills and up country as well. True, much of the State's aristocracy is run down, but not all by a long shot...
...cloud"-a dark blue rug, fading blue walls, light blue ceiling, plenty of mirrors. Bachelor's Bedroom, to "appeal to a bachelor in search of a bedroom," was painfully ugly, notably in an iron bed "amusingly decorated in red and white bed ticking." "Drama" came from a crimson carpet. The firm's explanation of the room's confusion was that it was for "a person who has collected interesting things, from time to time." Georgian Dining Room fell back on the reliable bright turquoise blue and mirrors. Venetian Sitting Room mixed a magnificent pair of Venetian doors...