Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Famed & fashionable in Franklin County, N. Y. was the old Ampersand Hotel, built in 1888, razed by fire in 1907. Today on Lower Saranac Lake stands a new Hotel Ampersand. The name is taken from an Ampersand Mountain, an Ampersand Lake, an Ampersand Brook, probably a corruption of "amber sand" on the lake shore rather than a learned comparison between the brook's crookedness...
Husband's Holiday (Paramount) is a solemn little problem play on marital infidelity, a subject which usually in the cinema is material for fun. The three persons chiefly involved?husband (Clive Brook), wife (Vivienne Osborne) and mistress (Juliette Compton)?regard their situation as a predicament. They make honest and generally sensible efforts to extricate themselves. The wife is eventually generous enough to give the husband a divorce. He, still troubled by a case of indecision, wanders about in the snow at night, making up his mind which way to go. The mistress, who is not a designing wench...
...level of "Mr. Dooley" (Finley Peter Dunne) with his Fables in Slang which H. S. Stone & Co. printed, Clyde J. Newman illustrated. No longer most up-to-date of U. S. slangsters, but wealthy, still unmarried, Author Ade winters in Florida, lives as a gentleman farmer in Brook, Ind. Golfing enthusiast, football fan, he is known as Purdue's patron saint...
...outline of the story is garish. It begins when a glum socialite (Clive Brook), consoling himself with liquor for his wife's infidelities, conceives an alliance with a cabaret singer (Miriam Hopkins). The cabaret singer has bad associations. When she sings the blues, she means them. Her husband is a thief. One night the socialite goes home to her apartment. While he is resting in a stupor on her couch her husband creeps into the other room of the apartment and kills her. The socialite is temporarily held for the murder. A fingerprint on a whiskey bottle exonerates...
Marion Gering's direction moves the story along fast without hurrying it, borrows the advantages of a close temporal unity without making it seem tricky by overemphasis. Clive Brook, Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins give well-toned performances. Miriam Hopkins has two torch or porch songs, sings them with the right professional air. Good shot: Clive Brook, preoccupied by his troubles, saying good night to a saloon proprietor. Bad shot: Kay Francis deciding to take what she calls "the thoroughbred...