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...Maid (by Zoe Akins; Harry Moses, producer). Memorable heroines in U. S. fiction are in the minority. But on the theory that women are the theatre's best customers, the U. S. stage has for years been the haven of commercially successful female characterizations. Some of the most successful of these have been the creation of Zoe Akins (Déclassée, The Greeks Had a Word for It). Currently she has borrowed a pair of early 19th Century New Yorkers from Edith Wharton's novel. The Old Maid, brought them together with a resounding impact...
...more white and tragic since her girlish theatrical holiday in Seventh Heaven 13 years ago, and Judith Anderson, a sultry lady with an odd smirk at the corners of her mouth, are past mistresses at handling a heavily dramatic situation. They are both quite at home in The Old Maid, for that opus narrows down into a cat-&-cat fight between the cousins over a daughter whom Charlotte in an unguarded moment had by an artist whom Delia loved but did not wait to marry...
...fiasco consisted of a ridiculous attempt to rally the garrison town of Strasbourg behind him for an invasion of Louis Philippe's France. And, like Hitler, Louis spent a period in jail, at the French fortress of Ham, where he managed to be solaced by his serving maid. Again, like Hitler, Louis talked, before his term as President of the short-lived Second French republic (the equivalent of Hitler's term of office under Hindenburg), of taking over some of the elements of Socialism into the new State which he promised. Where Hitler got the Socialist planks...
...turned up every conceivable suspect of the crime except his client. He pointed the finger of suspicion at the Lindberghs' butler and cook, the Ollie Whatelys, at Nurse Gow and her summertime boy friend "Red" Johnson, at the Detroit Purple Gang, at Violet Sharpe, the Morrows' maid who killed herself, and most vigorously at "Jafsie" Condon...
Whizzing through little Rockville, Conn., with a companion, a maid, and a chauffeur, Nora lasigi Bullitt, pretty debutante daughter of onetime (1912-13) U. S. Solicitor-General William Marshall Builitt, was brought up short by a traffic policeman, led off to police court. There the policeman announced that she had been passing intersections at 65 m.p.h. In the empty courtroom Miss Bullitt and friend puffed cigarets, ground the butts into the floor, kept on puffing and grinding until the judge came. Quickly the judge hammered out a fine of $10 plus $11.31 costs. "And now, Miss Bullitt," said he, offering...