Word: cad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manager, by the acrid philosophizing of a fellow trouper (Ann Andrews) and the appearance of a more appealing admirer (Phillip Reed). Although she achieves success in Manhattan, she seems perfectly willing to give up her career to marry this charmer until he is exposed as an actress-chasing cad with a concealed wife & child. When the home-town suitor reappears, Muriel Flood greets him with great enthusiasm, but by this time he has a wife of his own, too. The manager consoles her by reading a review which credits her with "the most illuminated acting since Sarah Bernhardt...
...this point one young cad dropped a, live hen from the gallery. Squawking hysterically, the bird flew around Lord Allenby's head...
...Hours by Air (Paramount). Rocketing from Newark to San Francisco in a bullet-nosed Boeing are an heiress (Joan Bennett) rushing to intercept her sister's marriage to a cad; the cad's brother (Fred Keating); a bad little boy, his water pistol and his caretaker (Zasu Pitts); the customary gangster, the sleuth trailing him; a transport pilot (Fred MacMurray) returning to duty from a canceled vacation...
Some critics left the premiere growling that Clyde (played by Alexander Kirkland) was a cad, that no matter how far back one probed to fix the blame for his fate, there was no excuse for indicting Society. Meanwhile, the theatre was resounding with jubilant whistles and applause not only from radical Group Theatre sympathizers but from many a nonpartisan theatregoer who had just been given a mighty exhibition of theatrical illusion...
...what was not. If many of his acts had been committed by anyone other than a poet, that person would long ago have found himself in the dock of the historians' Old Bailey, and the unanimous verdict of those moralists would have condemned him to everlasting infamy as a cad. Even as it is, his biography is not a pretty tale, but it has the sort of satanic interest which always clings to the "roses and raptures of vice." Of all its episodes, the one involving Jane Clairmont and Byron, with the Countess Guiceioli bobbing up and down and Allegra...