Word: denouement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is particularly unfortunate, for Playwright Charles A. Kenyon makes the girl's vacillation between bawdry and respectability a very real and painful thing, and suggests that desperation might cause her to run away. Indeed, had she returned to her earlier lover, the denouement might have been more convincing than it is now, for Charles D. Brown gives him rough-cut, magnetic aspect...
Song of Love (Columbia). An exposure of the difficulties of backstage motherhood reaches its denouement when one Buddy Gibson (David Durand) surprises both the cinematic and the actual audience by singing the theme song, "Take
...push her way "to white man's country, where Talu's white blood forever calls her." The local color weighing down Frozen Justice is interesting in the ginmill. Ulric's beautiful figure and husky voice go over well, but the situations are trite and the denouement in a frozen canyon fails to be tragic because it is not inevitable. Best shot: Ulric's singing "The Right Kind...
...Fate of the Baron is the tale of an aristocratic gentleman whose life's errand is to become the lover of a prima donna and whose ecstacy at her final acceptance is quickly changed to gentlemanly chagrin when she leaves him after their first night. Denouement: the Baron hears that his night of love was the result of a curse, muttered by the prima donna's previous lover on his deathbed. Upon hearing this the Baron can do nothing but die of shock, which he promptly does. Author Schnitzler's characters die easily, often...
...experienced and beautiful woman of light fancy. Back in London she tires of her caprice, and his infatuation increases in direct ratio to her boredom until one night when he finds her with one of her other friends he goes temporarily crazy and strangles her. The irony of this denouement is softened by having the woman recover, the young lover turn back to his former fiancée and the career he had forgotten, but in spite of its compromises The Careless Age remains a better picture than most. Best shot: nerve-treatment in a hotel...