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Charlotte (Helen Menken) and Delia Lovell (Judith Anderson) are cousins whose bodices and bustles are right out of Godey's Lady's Book. But beneath their modish taffetas each is dressed in an emotional hair shirt. Both Helen Menken, whose make-up has become more & more white and tragic since her girlish theatrical holiday in Seventh Heaven 13 years ago, and Judith Anderson, a sultry lady with an odd smirk at the corners of her mouth, are past mistresses at handling a heavily dramatic situation. They are both quite at home in The Old Maid, for that opus...
...most phenomenally successful of any magazine issued before the Civil war was the prim Godey's Lady's Book. On many a U. S. attic shelf, dust-covered copies still remain. Recently a passing decorating fancy has gutted them of their faded fashion plates, which are used to lend a touch of quaintness to boudoir walls, breakfast trays and lampshades...
...edition of Godey's Lady's Book was a thing to be read, reread, laughed at, cried over. Plump, benign Louis A. Godey chatted monthly with his "fair readers," giving careful counsel and advice. When a correspondent asked the Publisher in Philadelphia on which side of a lady a gentleman should sit, Mr Godey advised the left, "for is it not closer to a lady's heart...
...Squire Ames and Doctor Ames," S. E. Morison: "A Journal of Village Life in Vermont in 1848." Edited by W. O. Clough: "The Genesis of Godey's 'Lady's Book'," Lawrence Martin: "A Ballad on the Northwest Fur Trade." F. W. Howay: Memoranda and Documents:: "Count Caleb Cushing," S. K. Hornbeck: "Milices du Newhampshire...
...print shows Adam and Eve with a feline between them; Rembrandt represents The Holy Family itself "... With Cat"; there is also the famed cat of Visscher (1629-62), earliest of master line engravers, copies of which are now rare indeed. The prints used for Godey's Lady's Book reveal how widespread was puss's honored position in 19th Century society. The best ladies were seldom seen without a cat or cats, which were, in fact, so numerous that children fell over them in parlors...