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...Paris apartment house, police investigated the suspicious circumstance of ten gaspipe leaks in the same apartment within a few weeks. A maid, arrested, confessed that she had caused nine of the leaks because she fell in love with the. plumber who repaired the first...
...experiences-some funny, some tragic, but all appallingly convincing-shared by the Masons in the first two or three years of their life together. The record includes the consequences of a cold the baby catches because he has to sleep in the dining room; the disaster caused when a maid-of-all-work leaves in the midst of a dinner party; the results of John Mason's request for a raise; difficulties between Jane and her mother-in-law; a New Year's Eve quarrel between John and Jane. The climax, such as it is, arrives when their...
...Kaufman (The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight), Bella Spewack with her husband Sam (Boy Meets Girl). At serious drama three women in their day won the Pulitzer Prize: Zona Gale for Miss Lulu Bett (19-20), Susan Glaspell for Alison's House (1931), Zoe Akins for The Old Maid (1935). But Zona
...useful pal, Ocean-Traveler Al was happy to do services like these. But because Elma Lauer's German maid, Rosa Weber, didn't like what Elma and friends said about Herr Hitler, she reportedly mentioned the duty-free frocks to customs officials. Indicted as smugglers. Burns, Mrs. Lauer and Chapereau pleaded guilty, Jack Benny, another friend, did not. Last week in Manhattan, when a Federal judge said, "a year and a day in prison," George ("Nat") Burns turned paler than a radio gag. But the judge proceeded: "I shall suspend execution of sentence during good behavior." Upshot...
Burns's good behavior may entail testifying against Rival Comedian Jack Benny this month. Likeliest winner in any of the actions is Rosa, the Lauer maid, since standard U. S. pay to tattletales who snitch on smugglers is a quarter of the fines collected...