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...theme of this comedy is well supported by the cast. Laurette Bullivant as the jilted flancee produces an excellent burlesque of Ophelia, "Whiskey, that's for forgetfulness!" Grayce Hampton, the maid who has lived with the family so long that she now runs it, gestures agreeably the more so when she is drunk. Miss Frederick, her majesty, handles her role with great sophistication and taste, and with scarcely a single let-down. The other support is adequate...
...ghost of a hanged pirate comes back for a last family evening with his adoring old-maid sisters...
...York Lotte Lehmann lives simply at the Essex House facing Central Park. She keeps no maid, shops at Macy's. There last week she bought coffee and stockings to take home to her friends. Two New York friendships of which she is particularly proud are with Arturo Toscanini and Geraldine Farrar. Toscanini, who has small patience with most singers, goes to all her performances. She did not recognize Farrar when first she saw her in the front row at her last year's concert. The oldtime singer was listening so intently, so sympathetically that Lehmann found herself addressing...
...Last week "Lizzie" McDuffy, black White House maid, was faced by a demand from the presidential grandchildren. Said "Sistie" Dall, "Duffy, why can't something be done so that I may be called Eleanor?" Cried her young brother "Buzzie": "I want to be called Curtis...
...best-loved architects. Dark-eyed, black-haired, his energetic, agile figure is recognized everywhere in Moscow. Married and childless, he lives in a modern four-room apartment for which he pays 60 rubles per month (including telephone, radio, gas & light). He keeps one maid. To those who knew his work, his design for the Palace of the Soviets came as no surprise, for he learned most of his profession in Rome, admires classical architecture and Michelangelo, has already built near Rome a circular, colonnaded Jewish cemetery. In Moscow, his best work is the First House of the Soviets (apartments...