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...story (supplied by Librettist Gottlieb Stephanie, who borrowed it from a comedy by Dramatist Christoph Bretzner, who probably borrowed it from an English comic opera called The Captive) tells of an English cavalier and his manservant who try to liberate the cavalier's lady love and her maid from a Turkish pasha's harem...
Another witness turned up-Mrs. Greer's maid, a middle-aged woman named Annie Jackson. Mrs. Greer had confided in her too, had talked about her son periodically for 15 years. "She told me she had the feeling that he might come and see her," said the maid. "Oh, she was very anxious. She said she knew he was alive and had been taken care of by his father...
...sidelong, writing a play within a play. He portrays actors rehearsing, on a bare stage, a play about Joan; and he laces their drama with hers by having the director (nicely played by Sam Wanamaker) and the leading lady squabble over the script's delineation of the Maid...
...several blocks from the center of the University. How rough this life is or isn't varies undoubtedly with the individuals concerned, but a definite ray of light was east by a New Yorker correspondent recently, who on passing a Quenset Huf and "glaneing through a window, saw a maid in apron and lace-cap briskly shaking up cockfails...
Come to my arms, my disheartened maid...