Word: cad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Mr. Rupert Hughes would say, as he did in his introduction to "Babbitt," that the author has so portrayed his subject that the reader says: "There, but for the grace of God, go I." Of course this is utterly wrong, for no reader identifies himself with the hero-cad to that degree, nor is the hero, who is as mentally inert as either of these, ever mirrored from life; vile cads and pure heroes do not occur full-blown in life. The characterization strikes one as incomplete and unreal for that very reason. Since the hero, Theodore Bulpington, occupies...
Monroe Owsley, who has been a cinema cad so often that his last name sounds like a pun, tries hard to be an oily villain but his part, like everything else in the story, is cheaply invented and implausible. The only redeeming feature of Call Her Savage is Miss Bow's performance. Looking slightly more blowzy than she did in the days when she played flapper parts in silent cinema, she shows with enthusiastic violence and a flat, tough Brooklyn accent what such flappers can turn out to be when they grow up. Typical shot: Nasa (Clara Bow), insulted...
...show base motives on the part of the lover (Monroe Owsley), persimmon-mouthed Helen Twelvetrees is made (unlike Rose Allen) a three-million-dollar heiress. Cad Owsley's villainy is further pointed by his having changed his name. The girl's father (Robert Warwick) and brother (Robert Young) see through his disingenuousness. Helen does not. To force a marriage, Owsley takes her to a hotel overnight, confronts the father next morning. Wild-eyed from an all-night search, the brother is knocked down by the suitor, gets a gun and shoots...
Author Aldington has done his job up brown: by the time he gets through with his characters there is not a single one you can stomach. Georgie is pathetic but repulsive; Purfleet is a cad; Geoffrey a fool; all the rest run the gamut of knavery and oafishness. In a supererogatory epilog Aldington underlines his tale: England is on the downgrade, nothing can help her. the War killed off the best, delivered the rest into the strangling clutch of "human weeds...
...firm of De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, and containing one song that ought to be a hit, this picture is not, except for moments when Gloria Swanson sings, a musicomedy, but a legitimate drawing room piece with a bright idea. Miss Swanson's indiscretion-a love-affair with that cad, Monroe Owsley-gives her trouble later when she is in love with the worthy Ben Lyon and finds her young sister in Owsley's toils. There are bad stretches of development: the meeting between Lyon and Swanson, a giggling scene with Swanson and Barbara Kent that is supposed...