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...week's end, in Rosemere, Quebec, with daughter Roberta Gail, 16, as maid of honor, Jessica Allan was married in dusty pink to Garnet Coulter in a blue-striped double-breasted. Mrs. Coulter told newsmen that she had no idea where the honeymoon would be spent, but the mayor had "quite a few problems" to attend to back home. In Winnipeg the City Council got set for a bang-up reception, cagily waited to see what the Coulters would like for a present...
...death of the last surviving witness in the trial was reported last week. Maid Bridget Sullivan, who died in Butte, testified that when she came upon Miss Lizzie shortly after the murders, her hair was in order and there were no bloodstains on her dress. That testimony helped clear Lizzie Borden-even though gossip about her never died, living on in a well-known jingle...
...Opera ten years ago, is a rambunctious drawing-room farce about a woman who is so anxious to get to a ball that she cracks her husband over the head with a vase, has her lover arrested, and finally sweeps off with the chief of police. Beside The Old Maid and the Thief, the other half of the evening's bill, it seemed pretty thin...
...Maid was originally written for the perishable market place of radio. It is a near-slapstick story of a small-town spinster who plays hostess to a hobo until he runs off with her maid and car. The libretto is a gag-writer's dream, filled with skillful swoons (by Marie Powers, star of The Medium), gay tunes, and amateur-theatrical hamming. The audience loved every minute of it, right down to the final clinch and the hero's preposterous curtain line-"Your mouth is an abyss...
Horace W. Frost, owner of the dwelling, summoned police after his maid was awakened by unusual noises outside the house. He went downstairs to the dining room, where he said Dresser was trying to enter through a window...