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...clincher, Sister No. 4, a maid when the picture opens? falls in love with the doctor who delivers her sisters' babies. Unable to learn anything from experience, the doctor marries her, paves the way for the next projected Lemp picture-Four Mothers...
...women attending the Household Employment Symposium at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, she urged that domestic work be put on a professional basis. Most fluttered guest at the lunch was one Mildred Stewart, a maid, who sat between Mrs. Roosevelt and feminist Author Fannie Hurst. Mrs. Roosevelt listened to Miss Stewart's speech: "As trained workers we don't feel we have anything to gain from a union ... we have discussed the advantages of social security but we haven't fallen for the arguments of either C. I. O. or A. F. of L. organizers...
...glamorous look. It all takes place in the backyards of two much-curlycued 18901sh houses, and it tells of people who moved into them when they were built. There are four sisters of 65 and upwards, three of them with husbands of 67 or more, the fourth an old maid. Youth is represented by a mama's boy of 40 who has been keeping company for more than two lustrums with a fading moron of 39. To add to its handicaps, the play has scarcely a shred of plot...
When a Frenchman, over his hot brioches and chocolate, unfolds his morning paper to stare at gaping columns of white space, he shrugs and murmurs philosophically : "Anastasie!" A haggard, black-gowned, crotchety old maid, armed with an immense pair of shears, Anastasie is a characteristic creation of Gallic wit. She personifies the tightlipped, prudish silence clamped on the French press in wartime...
...moving story which it portrays. The entire east plays together well. Jane Bryan as the Austrian danseuse who falls in love with the lovable country doctor played by Muni, Flora Robson as his puritanical wife, Raymond Sebrin as their delicate child, and the tragically simple maid played by Una O'Connor: all combine to present a well acted production. Not one of them could really be given an ounce more credit than another. In addition to the acting, there is a genuine expose of the hysteria that accompanied the last war. In addition Max Steiner's musical background is really...