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When Ike moved on to his first infantry posts and training schools during World War I he began to pick up a reputation as a disciplinarian. Around the age when he courted and married Mamie Geneva Doud, a slender girl with violet eyes (the Douds' maid was provoked one day when "Mr. I-Something" kept calling every 15 minutes), he was finding a new confidence that led him on to command, at 27, the tank training center at Camp Colt, Pa. But soon after Christmas 1920 their first child, Doud Dwight ("Icky"), died of scarlet fever when...
...town for risque performances she continues with an austere provincial judge, and then "The Minister" in Paris. These four leading parts are all neatly cast, as are the many juicy minor roles in which such European films abound. The judge's wife is a coy hippopotamus; his maid is a laughing machine. The minister's major domo is a Machiavelli in bell-boy's clothes, while the underling who must constantly rewrite his chief's spur of the moment decrees is a charming harassed guppy...
...vast number of Victorian sub-intrigues and love affairs make a coherent summary of the plot impossible. The spiral staircase is in the old Warren House, run by Professor Warren (George Brent) and owned by old Mrs. Warren (Ethel Barrymore) who is dying upstairs, attended by Helen the dumb maid (Dorothy McGuire). She cannot talk. When young Dr. Parry arrives to attend to old Mrs. Warren, he falls in love with Helen. Then the professor's step-brother, Stephen Warren, turns up, and young ladies commence dying, among them Stephen's own girl friend, Blanche (Rhonda Fleming...
...keep the cooperative house running, each girl has to take turns at various tasks--cooking and washing dishes and cleaning the kitchen and mechanical appliances every ten days. A maid cleans the halls and living room, while each girls is responsible for her own room...
...last Thursday's article on the history of maids at the College, the following sentence, based on a Nov. 26, 1952, CRIMSON report of a contest for each House's favorite maid, appeared: "Mrs. Walsh from Lowell was chosen because, among other things, she built bookshelves and 'never took the boys' liquor without asking first...