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...sweltering August morning in Fall River, Mass. Some of the Borden household felt distinctly under the weather. Night before last both Mr. & Mrs. Borden had been violently sick; this morning Bridget, the maid-of-all-work, felt none too well. But they all got up as usual, went about their daily tasks. After breakfast 70-year-old Mr. Borden walked down town to do some business errands. Bridget, her first chores done, went up to her room to lie down. Mrs. Borden, 64 and fat, puffed up the front stairs to change the pillow slips in the spare room. That...
...Queen of England since Henry VIII's Queen Catherine Parr. In nothing has Her Majesty been common, except in dress, for it was undeniable that as Duchess of York she was "the sloppiest dresser in the Royal Family." This was the result of misplaced loyalty to her Scottish maid, an honest wench who, realizing perhaps more keenly than anyone else how unfit she was to dress the Queen of England, tearfully protested her inadequacy to her mistress. This peculiarly Scottish situation is now being got in hand by the Queen Mother and Elizabeth is already no sloppy Queen...
...record was not improved by a performance of Delibes' Lakmé. New Conductor Maurice de Abravanel tortured this suave, tuneful music into Wagnerian thunder. Vina Bovy, cast as the Hindoo maid, remained Vina Bovy and gave little support to Basso Leon Rothier who made Nilakantha piteous with his fits of love and fury. Not till the middle of the week brought a competent Aïda and a warm, vivid Faust in French did critics feel confidence in Director Johnson's French & Italian wings...
...Baruch let her out only occasionally, at night. He wanted to keep her unspotted from the world. Her only companions, besides old Baruch and his maid-of-all-work, were a collection of death masks. Some of these masks she revered (Napoleon, Bismarck, Rameses, Goethe), one she loved...
Clay Clement demands first honorable mention in the role of that manager just avoiding an exaggeration of his gruffness and (perhaps pretended) self interest. Elizabeth Dunne, as Hatter actress's maid, is fully as successful in her modest way, as her superior, and likewise for vocal reasons. She uses an impassionate monotone, which is expect comical when she waxes philosophic and hero encomium on the boys living alone, in being able to go have and find nobody waiting for you was the only line that stopped the play to around applause Phillip Reed as the snake and Alden Chase...