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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1941
Page
11
Rebecca Klang portrays maids as sturdy self reliant professionals and moral guardians of the home. Lucy, a plump early forties cleaner, embodies an individual who enters homes with a key and earns pay by the hour while others depend on her care and discretion.
Lucy, a fifteen year veteran of housework, watches Miss Carton, a solitary office woman in her thirties, drift through shifting beauty obsessions and fragile romance as Lucy's gaze into Miss Carton's dressing table and ashtrays maps a life of unmet youth and hidden longing.
Lucy cleans flats of unattached women and reflects on Miss Carton and Miss Quently. She waters Miss Carton’s flowers, realizing life can surprise from despair. The story portrays hope found in small acts amid loneliness and judgment.
After almost four decades in New York City’s Bronx Zoo, Alice an Indian elephant aged 44 is failing health and near death. Her stormy career included escapes painting with green pigment stealing bread and a failed trick with keeper Dick Richards whose 1911 memory stunt she could not recall now.
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