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...Cornell, Duke, Wisconsin, other U. S. colleges attach similar legends to campus statues which are said to move whenever a pure maid walks by. Under like conditions the lions in front of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue are said to roar, have, according to Author Sharp's appendix, "so far [been] observed only to yawn...
Said General Paul: "A commissar is a maid of all work, a democratic priest, an army doctor with his fingers always on the pulse of the Brigade." More significantly he added: "You are my third...
...always carried peppers in his pockets; Charles Lloyd, a neurotic Quaker, whose piano thumping drove Charles Lamb to write The Old Familiar Faces; George Dyer, who could never distinguish between prose and poetry, was so near-sighted that he once disappeared into a river while the Lambs' maid was watching. Doctors sometimes advised Charles Lamb that this eccentric circle was not the healthiest one for a spinster afflicted with intermittent lunacy. But Mary Lamb seems to have felt quite at home in it. At times when she did not, or when Charles, who was something of a tosspot (Mary...
Since David Lewis had sold Hal Wallis the novel, he looked like the logical producer. Equally inevitable seemed the choice of Casey Robinson, who scripted such Bette Davis successes as Dark Victory and The Old Maid, to turn the 600 crowded Field pages into a workable screen treatment. So Producer Lewis and Scripter Robinson holed up for five days in Phoenix, Ariz., emerged with a 90-page synopsis, which Scripter Robinson expanded into a 225-page script-too long for the most ambitious of photoplays...
...firmest protester was Boston's eight-month-old Society for Sanity in Art (youngest branch of Chicago's famed organization of similar name), which found an opportunity for its maiden crusade. Last week, from the black-upholstered fastness of her Victorian apartment, the Society's old-maid president, Margaret Fitzhugh Browne, said: "[The Picasso show] is an exhibition of crazy stuff. People who went to the show flocked to join the Society for Sanity in Art." She affirmed the Society's answer to Picasso's challenge: a rival exhibition demonstrating sane art, to be held...