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There is probably no actress today better suited to play Joan than Ingrid Bergman. She has said that it has long been her ambition to do so, a factor which must have been partially responsible for her touching portrayal of the Maid in Maxwell Anderson's clap-trap "Joan of Lorraine," in which she appeared on Broadway...

Author: By George A. Lelper, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

Yesterday a maid found the leg stashed away in a student's room in Kirkland. She told Rome and he reclaimed his booty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maid Finds Gam on the Lam After Three Months Astray | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...Bronesky) attempts to treat a compound social fracture-always a ticklish business. Playwright Reines's double-problem play first shows a young painter who has been blinded in the War and is bitterly unadjusted. Only when he falls in love with his mother's sympathetic, intelligent young maid does life seem worth living. Then he discovers that the maid is a Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...grown richer on the job. One who did was William Howard Taft. To incoming President Woodrow Wilson, Taft wrote helpfully: "You will find that Congress is very generous with the President. You have all your transportation paid for, and all servants in the White House except such valet and maid as you and Mrs. Wilson choose to employ . . . Your laundry is looked after in the White House. Altogether ... I have been able to save from my four years about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Laundry Is Free | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...smaller roles, Edna Preston bustles as the perpetual Cockney maid is expected to, and Mary Mace is proper and prim as Sir John's secretary. Maxine Sheppard looks natural in the cynical, sophisticated--and bitchy--role of Lady Fletcher...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: O Mistress Mine | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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