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...insupportable, he replaces her with another housemaid, Hendrickje Stoffels (Elsa Lanchester, Mrs. Charles Laughton). Her gentle guidance gives him a new lease on happiness, brings back some measure of prosperity. But she is excommunicated for bearing his child. Before he can marry her, she dies, leaving him to a penniless, unkempt, disreputable, lonely old age which never dulls his inner merriment or distracts his joy in paint...
...Night Watch" to please the vain guardsmen. Rembrandt skids down hill, his style goes out of favor and his house-keeper-mistress (Gertrude Lawrence) becomes a shrew. He finds a few short years of peace and success with the adoring Hendrickje Stoffels, but her death leaves him friendless and penniless. Even in his last year the painter gets fun out of living, but he gives a cynical parting quip, "Vanity, vanity, all is vanity". Laughton is in top-rate form, dominating every minute of the lusty, strong picture...
...ngler was named Toscanini's successor (see p. 51 ), was first to restore his gift when Furtwängler withdrew. Short, stocky, with a great black bush of hair. Founder Hirschmann plays a tough game of tennis, has "three hobbies: music, long tramps in the woods, helping penniless musicians...
Nine years ago, when koalas had almost vanished from the Australian bush, a penniless 22-year-old Brisbane naturalist named Noel Burnet dedicated his life to saving the species from extinction. He started out with four koalas in his boardinghouse back yard, soon interested a philanthropist who rented him a 50-acre patch near Sydney for a shilling a year. He named it Koala Park, planted eucalyptus trees, built a koala hospital, developed a thriving colony which tourists came from far & wide to see. Naturalist Burnet did not grow rich on his tourist trade, had a perpetual struggle to keep...
...citizens of Springfield who went to the polls had to decide whether Springfield's 12,000 school children should have a much longer holiday. Up for a vote was a proposed three-mill property levy to raise $240,000 a year to keep the penniless city schools open for the winter. Springfield voted the levy down 2-to-1. Sure enough the schools, out of operating funds and already owing $66,000 in back salaries to their 381 teachers, three days later shut down tight, not to reopen until February...