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...have been left them by an impoverished artist are suddenly found to be worth thousands of dollars. This discovery overwhelms the different members of the family. Impelled by greed they catch themselves in ugly conspiracies that would have ordinarily shocked them. The central character is Abby, the Haggett's maid of all work, who keeps her perspective as well as her rights in the helter skelter scramble to get hold of the paintings...
...seduce calls at her penthouse, Tira (Mae West) is not amused. "I'll trouble you to scram," she says, gesticulating with her hips. When she has pushed her caller through the door, Tira feels the need of light refreshment. "Beulah, peel me a grape," she tells her maid...
...this posthumous novel, says Publisher Scribner, was finished six months before his death (in January 1933). One More River winds up the Charwell (pronounced Cherrell) saga neatly enough, though Author Galsworthy had the serial habit too strongly not to leave a few threads dangling. Better than its two predecessors (Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness), it should remind even impatient critics of Galsworthy that, in the words of one of his characters, "he may be an old buffer, but he's a nice...
...maid entered the room...
...Talbot) and Karen Morley (Mrs. Talbot), supported by such $1,000-a-week celebrities as Phillips Holmes, Jean Hersholt, Madge Evans, Grant Mitchell and the late Louise Closser Hale, perform brilliantly and avoid each others' toes. Good shot: Kitty Packard making up her mind to give her maid a bracelet. Paddy, the Next Best Thing (Fox) is very clearly Fox's notion of the next best thing to Metro's Peg 0' My Heart. It is an idyll of the Irish countryside, dripping with Hollywood blarney, Janet Gaynor's girlish charm and terms of endearment...