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...drawing for their pains. Bouché's technical equipment, like that of John Singer Sargent and Giovanni Boldini, is not prodigious, but exactly suits his ends. He may well rank with those past masters of social portraiture. Bouche is not one to portray the bellhop or the country maid, but flies straight to the inmost circle of society, where the crustiest tycoons really do unbend, all wives are beautiful, and well-tailored bohemians are welcome. In a sense, he adores the lions and tigresses of a world often so polite that it is rude, and so frantic that...
...complaints before," and proceeds to demonstrate the reason why-to her obvious satisfaction. He then rings up the decorator and accuses her of listening in on his love life because she has none of her own. But not long after that, Rock gets a look at the "sour old maid" he has been scolding. As the camera sneaks up behind the squirming heroine, the hero gasps: "So that's the other end of your party line!" He decides to make a new connection at all costs, and introduces himself as a little old Texas millionaire. And so on, until...
...dislikes doing housework, "though I know how to do it," now has "a cook, a maid and a girl to serve the table, but they are paid by the state. I used to go out shopping myself, but now I order it and it is delivered...
Beauty is a thing of Ragmud But the maid left late. So don't look under the apple tree Let's rebel...
...surprise. But since the films that earned him a place in cinema history have all been box-office laggards in Italy, De Sica is forced to direct and act in cream-puff romances in order to scrape up the financing for an occasional picture of his choice. In The Maid he almost seems to be describing his own professional plight-and that of the once brilliant Italian film industry-when he haltingly asks a doctor: "Isn't there something to-reinvigorate? Just once in a while...