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...upper-class members of Houses will be eligible to participate in the intramural contests if they have not won Varsity letters previously in the sports in which they wish to engage or are not on Varsity squads in those same sports. Men may participate whether on probation...
...words of the Prophet, had traveled to Egypt by train and plane in search of emancipation. They were seated calmly, if a little self-consciously, in Cairo's ornate Royal Opera House. None wore the flowing charshaf (Moslem robe). Like Egypt's royal princesses, and other upper-class Moslem women, none hid her good looks behind a harem veil. Married delegates had discarded the Arabic word for wife aqila (the tethered one), in favor of qarina (partner). For some of the delegates this was the first congress their governments had ever allowed a woman to attend...
Tall, scholarly, bespectacled Virginius Dabney, 43, lives like a typical upper-class Southerner in a white frame house in Richmond, Va., with his pretty, vivacious wife "Doug," their three children and a maid of all work named Cora. Last summer, eyeing Cora enviously, a Richmond lady told V Dabney's wife, "If V would stop talking so much we might have some cooks in our kitchens...
...ruthless, passionate young woman, out strictly for the highest bidder, she keeps them on her leash even after she marries doting, pathetic Peasant Hugo Haas. First she destroys Judge Sanders' attempt to settle down with a wife (sugary, upper-class Anna Lee). Then she parades before the count in his dead wife's wedding dress. At length, on a shooting party (the film is made from Chekhov's story The Shooting Party), she is mysteriously knifed to death. Her husband takes the rap. The Bolshevik revolution overtakes her guilty lover before justice does...
Boulevards and Boudoirs. Helen Goes to Troy translates Homer into French bedroom farce. Its mythological Greeks and Trojans chase each other around marble bathtubs and across perfumed counterpanes. Its Hellas consists entirely of boulevards and boudoirs. Its Helen, beneath her classical robes, is a bored upper-class Parisienne whose bumbling bourgeois spouse Menelaus (well played by Ernest Truex) is sent on a trip to Naxos, returns unexpectedly to find his wife in bed with Paris, an unawakened but erotically gifted Trojan shepherd...