Word: cad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon men move into Gina's life. The first is a cad; worse, so far as mother is concerned, he is a chauffeur. When Gina learns that he will not marry her because he is already married, what is there for her to do? She is disillusioned, bursting with "physical exuberance," and full of motherly advice that she has a body to sell. She sells it. Comes the dawn, and Gina wants to die. Instead, she keeps going-from one man to another. The principal ones (the time is the mid-'30s) are a fascist police official...
...sallow face of the barrister (Michael Rennie) who helps Leslie beat the rap. With pace and polish, Wyler distilled all the steamy Maugham atmosphere and dry rot of colonial life, brought believability to some papier-mache archetypes. Oldtime Cinemactress Anna May Wong, as the blackmailing mistress of the murdered cad, peered with good effect through the inevitable beaded curtains...
...from London, where it has been a hit for over a year. In a succession of glossy costume changes, it tells of a determined society matron's efforts to find a gilt-edged husband for her uncooperative debutante daughter, while the girl herself falls in love with a cad. In one of those splendid reversals of the seeming truth, the shakoed young palace guardsman whom Mother favors proves morally unworthy of such exalted employment, while the handsome cad emerges not only a verray parfit gentil knight but, at the last moment, a duke as well...
...church tower. What this trite tale of love and death is intended to light up hardly matters. But women may wonder what Novelist Bates means by letting the men off so easily: Melford ends up with a comfortable widower's life, Frankie comes back to town to cad about with not one, but several, fluttery innocents. It's a man's world...
...possessions, stealing a car, selling off furniture from an apartment lent him by a friend. As the book's narrator blurts, straight off: "What I want is some understanding of why it all happened-why an otherwise honorable man should suddenly act like a criminal and a cad." In a booklong flashback British Novelist Nigel (Mine Own Executioner) Balchin attempts just that, providing a prime example of that literary love child of Freud, the "why-he-dunnit...