The maid lit the pipe, and Margaret drew once, twice, and waved the girl away.
She never again appeared in a movie as big as "Imitation of Life," or had a role as big as that of Annie Johnson, a black maid whose light-skinned daughter abandons her and renounces her black roots.
The former dancer earned a supporting actor nomination for Douglas Sirk's lush 1959 melodrama "Imitation of Life," based on Fannie Hurst's novel, as a maid whose light-skinned daughter rejects her and her black roots: "If, by accident, we should ever pass on the street, please don't recognize me".
This can be a big regime shift, especially for students coming from economically advantaged backgrounds where the Indian lifestyle with a chauffeur, cook and maids is light-years away from dorm-room reality.
Maids usually wear very light eye makeup if any.
The maid to the left faces the light, her brightly lit profile and sleeve creating a diagonal.
It was the maid, whose eyes, catching the light with pinpoint reflections, somehow become the painting's center.
Traditional maid's rooms get no light, said Iva Spitzer, an executive vice president the Corcoran Group, who has helped convert many prewar buildings and is helping to sell 845 West End.
This has not been a good month for men or women: The head of the International Monetary Fund stands accused of sexually assaulting a maid, which has brought to light other similar allegations against him.
If anyone ever did a sense of injustice better than Kevin Pietersen we would probably have to go back to the Maid of Orleans when they lit the flame or Anne Boleyn just before the blade came down.
