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...dear knows what a mess he would be in if he didn't have a capable woman and several ever-so-knowing children to pick up the pieces. At first, of course, there isn't any woman, but the children soon ignore their father into hiring a maid (Sophia Loren) who is just what the scriptwriter ordered. She wiggles around, sings peculiar popular songs ("Presto, presto, do your very best, oh"), boils an egg-obviously, to the children, a normal American homemaker...
Among the many mysteries of Joan of Arc's meteoric career, one of the most baffling is the origin of her inspiration-her "voices," as she called them. Was she hysterical? Was she insane? No, say two British students of the Maid and her works: all the available medical evidence fits together into a neat and simple explanation that detracts nothing from Joan's greatness...
Died. Zoe Akins, 71, playwright (De-classee, The Greeks Had a Word for It), poet, novelist, screenwriter; of cancer; in Los Angeles. In 1935, Missouri-born Zoe Akins won a Pulitzer Prize for her Broadway adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid, but despite her durable professional success she deplored "the tragedy of feminine careers." Writing for Hollywood was "not difficult," she said. "All you have to do is write six pages every day, then grab the money and run for the train...
...lone bandit yesterday looted the home of Dr. John C. Wells, Jr., Associate Physician to the University Health Services. Entering Wells' home on Nightcap Lane in Weston, the burglar bound and gagged Mrs. Wells, two small children, and the maid...
Recently, Tebaldi has allowed herself a few of the luxuries expected of a full-fledged diva. She has remodeled a ten-room apartment in Milan and crammed it with antiques she picked up all over the world. She travels now with a maid, a secretary and 30 pieces of luggage, into which she crams 70 pairs of shoes, 50 dresses and five mink coats. She indulges herself in jewelry-necklaces, fat rings, pearl and diamond earrings-and she plans to buy a big American...