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...Pennsylvania his order for a seven-day dream: "A suite that will face east ... a cup of English-made tea served to me in bed ... no military title -'Mister' will be music to my ears. . . ." A phonograph "with any & all Strauss selections," a "large, grey-haired, motherly" maid to look after his three-year-old daughter Susie, a new toy for Susie every day, flowers every morning for his wife Jane, candles on the table for dinner, a one-way telephone-"outgoing only," a prodigious menu full of such delicacies as filet! mignon and lobster a la Newburg...
...with impish delight, he walked the tight wire between good fun and bad taste. On his pub-crawling beat, sipping an occasional dark-rum Daiquiri, he ogled the rhinestone in a stripteaser's navel, tattled on the Duchess of Windsor's powder-room behavior (she left the maid...
...Typical of Russia's way of running the show are the instructions it gave the writer of a kiddies' program. He was told to have "no romances between nobility and commoners, no mention of castles or peasant huts . . . no largesse by an aristocratic hero to a humble maid." An acceptable radio drama might tell how a German baron used to punish his starving tenants for stealing potatoes, and show how his estate has now been divided up into homes for all. During the rest of its 19-hours-a-day on the air, the station has stressed...
...Gwenn), a rum-soaked old sea captain full of Elizabethan gusto; on Stagnation's side is the heroine's aunt (Catherine Willard), a snooping spinster full of Victorian gentility. The trouble with such highly contrasted symbols is that they themselves are virtually burlesques: almost everything the old maid does smacks of melodrama, almost everything the old soak does smacks of farce...
...flying squadron of them turned up at Brooklyn's High School for Homemaking, there found some of the girls mad because the school's evening socials had been dropped. Out on strike went a gang of girls, with the war cry: "It's an old maid's institution...