Word: boudoirs
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Lolling like a plush pansy on the cushioned floor of her boudoir in their suburban mansion, Mme. Clemente vents her jealousy and disapproval of Crystal's wild-honeymoons, by telling all to the newspapers. That is where the narrator comes in, as an astute young literata fresh from the wheat belt, starved for silk lingerie and articulate courtship. An editor from whose gentle, sadistic lip cigarets droop two and three at a time; a svelte social secretary from Virginia who has come through three marriages with a rope scar around her neck and a bright-haired daughter, but without rings...
Finally, in a blaze of glory, the day at court closes, and once again you are permitted to peep into a Queen's boudoir. Once again the ladies of the Court dance attendance, and while the curtain descends, Her Royal Highness slowly sinks to slumber. It's a touching scene, so leave early if you are easily moved to tears...
...miserly spindle-legged monster. Peggy Wood, a maid passing fair, plays the daughter sold to a miser. But she has her consolation-a ruddy ragged redcoat, Captain Bragdon (Gavin Gordon). Who shall cast the first stone when he, disguised as a corpse and wheeled into the boudoir by the order of the fear-stricken husband himself, comes to life and love? Certainly not hearty, round-bellied, wenching Sir Jeremy (Sydney Greenstreet) who engineered the titillating situation and kept the audience chuckling while he explained the young wife's earnest efforts, in the next room, to quicken the corpse...
Premier Poincaré, the great War President of France, one of the whitest whiskered of European statesmen, discovered last week that in the secret code of the French Foreign Office he is referred to as Barbichon (meaning, in boudoir "conversation, "The Little Bearded One" or "Little Whiskers...
...much of Dr. Collins' pungent, cutting talk is the sheer tripe of a loquacious boudoir professional? How well does this exceedingly articulate if not glib man of the big-city clinic know the average human being...