Word: courtesan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monte Carlo as a game of chance. The speculative plunger is a penniless law clerk from Hungary who comes with his little hoard for a fling; his prize is the official sweetheart of a wealthy Duke. The starveling dreamer dares to aspire to her love, and the great courtesan yields to him. She hopes to spite the Duke, who has ordered her to Paris to avoid a marital collision with his wife. Love awakens in her frostily brilliant eyes at the youth's touch, but she realizes her arms will be a millstone around his neck...
...seems to be smitten with awe at moving among elegant folks in grand surroundings. With a first act that sparkles and others that go diminuendo, Miss Zoë Akins remains the broad-jumping playwright. She leaps off with a great rush, then loses momentum. Elsie Ferguson recovers in the courtesan role the warm, stirring undercurrent of her earlier acting. Throwing off the cataleptic spell of the cinema, she no longer seems to be waiting for a closeup. Except for a farewell scene, Sidney Blackmer has the cold, damp passion of a clay statue. He seems hardly to have the resolution...
RAIN-People are now beginning to boast about the number of times they have seen the courtesan destroy the charletan...
RAIN?People are now beginning to boast about the number of times they have seen the courtesan destroy the charletan...
RAIN?Searching study of the clash of God and a courtesan in a forgotten corner of the South Seas...