Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...COBRA-A play exposing in vivid spurts the chills and fever of sex life...
...Cobra. One of those plays in which sex is held up to reproach. It is a natural, unfaltering study of sex as a cobra?a snake which fascinates and then devours the great white bull, in this case a strapping athlete. All the energy which he develops swinging an oar as a champion Yale rower seems to turn to passion at the swing of a skirt. A woman's eye can wilt him more easily than a burning...
...whose stagnant purity is the one false note in the play?everyone else is as humanly frank as the law will allow. Louis Calhern gives a redoubtable performance as the Yale oarsman, achieving the feat of looking like a 'reluctant caveman. Judith Anderson is exceptionally facile as the insidious cobra. Ralph Morgan as the betrayed husband and Clara Moores as the insistently good sweetheart add to the absorbtion of a drama that leaves one flushed...