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...desire to be free of convention. A London lady, Joan Fontaine, bored by her secluded life, falls in love with a dashing but thoroughly honorable Robin Hood of the sea, Arturo de Cordova. The story is a romantic and glorified one, but it is not false. No old maid's happy ending makes a travesty of the film...
...first witness was Mrs. Z's house maid. She deposed : "Mrs. Z never discussed politics or the war. Mr. Z has been on the eastern front a long time. Mrs. Z's oldest son was inducted into the Army three months before her arrest. Her second son is working in an Austrian factory. Her youngest child, a daughter of 17, was a driver in the A.R.P. and was killed during a raid on Berlin. I was present when Mrs. Z received this news. At first she stared at me, then shouted: 'All this is the work...
Tall, scholarly, bespectacled Virginius Dabney, 43, lives like a typical upper-class Southerner in a white frame house in Richmond, Va., with his pretty, vivacious wife "Doug," their three children and a maid of all work named Cora. Last summer, eyeing Cora enviously, a Richmond lady told V Dabney's wife, "If V would stop talking so much we might have some cooks in our kitchens...
Barbara Scully as Maid Marion is pleasing to the eye although her voice lacks steadiness and clarity...
...found the same situation at the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mowrer, 146 rue de l'Université, where their maid had covered the furniture, hidden the radio and fought off those who had attempted to requisition it. Although the maid had not been paid since 1940, she had come in twice a week to keep the place clean...