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...comedy that makes the play so poignant. Jane Spencer's performance is some of the finest amateur acting that has been presented in any of the productions near Harvard Square and is alone worth the admission fee. Along with them comes Edith Bronson playing the role of Lucy, the maid. Her acting is of the most charming sort--and we might add that she is too. Albert Feather, the villain, is done by Jerry McMechan with a dash and swagger that deftly betray his shallow bravado...
Land-locked Denver staged a significant "launching" last week. At the Denver railroad yard, a pretty stenographer crashed a bottle of Pike's Peak snow water against the first of eight freight cars, and the "Good Ship Mountain Maid" rumbled westward-loaded with prefabricated steel for the hulls of naval escort ships. Same day, their keels were laid at California's Mare Island Navy Yard...
George Warner was selected for the post of Vice-president, while Mrs. Mary Arsenault, maid in Thayer's center entry, is the new Union secretary. Frank Miller of the Maintenance division is the newly-elected treasurer. Eight new members of the group's executive board were also selected...
Author & composer was 30-year-old Gian-Carlo Menotti. a Philadelphia-trained Italian whose name has loomed large in opera circles since his effervescent Amelia Goes to the Ball clicked happily in 1937. Menotti turned out a second hit in 1939: a radio opera. The Old Maid and the Thief, commissioned by NBC. His newest venture, like its predecessors, is short. Unlike them, it is a tragedy. Menotti had complained: "The critics wrote that my talent was only for opera buffa...
...months fat-cheeked Carol of Rumania has found Mexico City's suburb Coyoacan an agreeable place for his exile, complete with his red-haired mistress Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, a luxurious eight-room maisonette, two high-powered automobiles, valet, maid, two Cuban houseboys, two French poodles, two Pekingese, and former Lord Chamberlain Ernest Udarianu, who is something of a lap dog himself. There the exiled King has pleasured himself with poker, backgammon, golf, visits to the El Patio nightclub, and a social whirl with some of the fastest climbers in Mexico...