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...wife has brought him a lovely old house and a good farm. Charlie does his duty by all of them but occasionally he will break out. When his wife is in the hospital he seduces a willing mountain girl, who afterwards dies. He takes his innocent nephew to a brothel. But when he rapes Virginia, 37-year-old spinster friend of his wife's, Charlie goes too far. Virginia has him arrested. At his trial Charlie breaks out on the witness stand, tells too much of the truth. He is sent to the penitentiary for a long term...
...rusty, mildewed guillotine certified to have cut off more than 1,000 aristocratic heads during the French Revolution. After brisk bidding it was knocked down for 30,000 francs ($1,980) to a buyer who refused to give his name. Reporters thought they recognized the owner of a brothel which boasts that its "torture room" is the most authentically equipped in Paris...
Another thing, the state of Mississippi has always been traditionally a dry state, but when the whiskey trust of America, decided to convert the U. S. into a vast barroom, and brothel to drag down the masses to a state of degeneracy, the wets of Mississippi, conceived and tried to pass the most eniquitous piece of whiskey legislation ever offered as an insult to the intelligence of a moral and spiritual-minded people...
...decided it was just the thing for his 20th Century wine. Thus. Ulysses became Bloom, the wanderer in search of home, wife and son. Penelope was his wife Molly, Telemachus, Stephen. Other obvious parallels: Hades, the graveyard; the Cave of Aeolus, the newspaper office; the Isle of Circe, the brothel. A less obvious parallel: the passage between Scylla and Charybdis, Bloom's walk through the National Library while Stephen and some literary men are discussing Aristotelianism (the rock of Dogma), Platonism (the whirlpool of Mysticism). Ulysses' slaying of Penelope's suitors has its counterpart in Bloom...
...that historic clue, the scene of Mahogany Hall might be any one of a dozen U. S. cities. The play is a moony obeisance to that fount of so much good & bad dramatic material, the brothel. Across its one majestic set parade half a dozen wenches, chipper lads and befuddled dignitaries in dinner jackets, a grafting commissioner, sinister "backers." a youth in love with an inmate, a twittering astrologist. a blundering social worker, a moody "Professor" (Eduardo Ciannelli), a baleful headmistress (Olga Baclanova ) who keeps everything under control until she falls in love with the Professor. It takes almost...