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...this turn of events. In letters from Paris, where she arrived after five days of seasickness. Miss Mercer first wrote Harlem friends that life was a song. "The Prince has given me everything that any woman can ask for," she said. "He has a large ten-room apartment, a maid and a Personal Secretary. The Maid does everything for me. My bath, bed and Clothes, it is really too good to last, but I still think the Gods are very kind...
...barber college, graduated (so he said) cum laude. Back in his home county of Delta, he worked in a store, cut hair on the side, studied at night, became a country schoolteacher. Said he: "The only weak moment I ever had was when I played croquet with some old-maid schoolteachers, one of whom I married...
...Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, The Yeomen of the Guard, or The Merryman and His Maid is nearest in style to grand opera, gives able singers most to get their teeth into. Last week The Yeomen was the offering of the eighth annual play festival in the plushy, chandeliered, 61-year-old Opera House in Central City, Colo...
...common denominator of swift spending that barely catches up to their expanding wants." A family with $18,000 a year may spend $2,000 to $3,000 for rent; $1,800 to $2,100 for food; $900 for a nurse; $300 to $350 for liquor; $900 for a maid; $100 for flowers; $1,500 to $2,000 for clothes; $1,800 for life insurance, savings; $1,000 to $1,200 on the man's "cash expense at business"; $300 for his wife's pocket money; $1,800 in taxes; $400 to $600 for entertainment...
Bridal Suite (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), all about the playboy (Robert Young) and the Alpine maid (Annabella), may, as its producers claim, suggest how Annabella captured Tyrone Power (TIME, May 1), but is nonetheless a very bad picture...