Word: cuckolding
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...stumbling block is The Guardsman's plot: the predicament of an actor who, to satisfy his wife's yearning for amorous adventure and to satisfy himself that she is faithful to him, dresses up in the uniform of a guardsman and tries, hoping he will fail, to cuckold himself. The demands of this ticklish situation (used by M.G.M. with minor changes) are simply beyond the histrionic capacities of the picture's two principals: wholesome, husky Risöe (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, young (28) Metropolitan Opera demidiva, and dimpled, impassive Nelson Eddy, 40, who looks like...
Cried Margarita: "You are his donna, and I am his donna; your husband is a cuckold, and mine is another. ... If he prefers what is mine to what is yours, is it my fault...
...mannerisms are perfectly suited to the part of Mrs. Pinchwife. Best laugh in the show is the situation, often drawn for The New Yorker by Peter Arno, of a duped husband coming upon his wife in another's arms. In this case old Sir Jasper Fidget is the cuckold and his remark, greeted with wild laughter from the audience, is a mild "how now?" Born in Wollaston, Mass., now a widow of 40, professionally eccentric Ruth Gordon (Serena Blandish, Saturday's Children, Three-Cornered Moon, They Shall Not Die, Ethan Frame) is said to like gefullte fish, poppyseed...
...welfare worker decided that Mrs. Erne Crawford was fit to mother the baby boy whom she first swore a brindle dog dropped at her Louisiana cabin door, then admitted she had borne guiltily back of her woodshed (TIME, Nov. 23). Louis Crawford, her pious, abstinent, pale-eyed cuckold, after a good tussle with the Holy Spirit, last week pulled in his horns, took Effie and their two young sons across Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans' Charity Hospital to claim the babe...
...comedy called The Magnificent Cuckold, Meierhold's radical method gets full play. The stage is completely bare except for some intricate scaffolding and necessary lighting effects. The actors all wear denim overalls. "The plot," says Observer Houghton. "is the old triangle situation, a man. his wife and her lover, given by Meierhold what they call in Russia social meaning.' This is apparently accomplished by the introduction of acrobatics . . . and all for a purpose. I can suggest this purpose by describing the entrance of the lover. . . . Meierhold places the lady at the foot of a tin slide, the lover...