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...World War II until recent years, it was a whites-only proposition. "Let's face it," a black beauty specialist says. "The black woman just didn't need cosmetics then. Her job outside the house was almost always as a maid or housekeeper. She didn't need to look attractive...
...cheese morsels rolled in crushed nuts." Then down come the incisors. "But it's all right. They're white servants, not Claude and Maud, but South Americans. Obviously, if you are giving a party for the Black Panthers . . . you can't have a Negro butler and maid." But then Felicia Bernstein (Felicia Montealegre that was) is from Chile, with a real knack for finding nonblack Latin American servants, not only for herself but for her friends. "The Bernsteins are so generous about it," says Wolfe, "that people refer to them as 'the Spic and Span Employment...
...mother when Maggie announced that she wanted to go into the theater: "Oh, you can't let her, not with that face." But it didn't keep her from working her way up from the prompter's chair to walk-on parts as a maid, and then to traditional repertory...
...total flop. "I guess that's what Otto Preminger said after Hurry, Sundown, " he answered quickly. "Let's put it this way: If it's a hit, I'll get another job. And if it's a dog, I won't even be able to get Zanuck's maid on the phone." He started to laugh again, catching my eyes as he did so. Crowley and I were both still laughing-tipsily, loudly-when the press agent came to take him away to the airport...
...bacteriophobic eunuch, and the Man from Glad, who is gussied up in platinum hairdo and white trench coat. In one ad, a failing used-car salesman takes a dollop of Listerine mouthwash, and customers start buying without waiting for the sales pitch. In another commercial, a bespectacled, frumpish old maid uses Ice Blue Secret deodorant and is transformed into a glamorous beauty; presumably, even her eyesight is improved because at the end she no longer wears glasses...