Word: denouement
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Voyaging again to New Haven, scene of its 4 to 1 victory over Yale, the University hockey team concludes its season tonight with a game in whose denouement the Great God Jinx may play a master hand. A Crimson triumph would mean the first humbling of the Big Blue since 1928, a tie leaves Harvard still with the edge, defeat spells another stalemate similar to that...
...manages to think up a fairly entertaining story to go with them. This time it is about a scapegrace adventurer (Robert Montgomery) and the admiral's daughter (Madge Evans), whom he marries after meeting her in the store where he is a tobacco salesman. To arrange a felicitous denouement, Lonsdale has his hero write a play which, if it is anything like Lovers Courageous, is skilful, insignificant, likeable. Good shot: Montgomery and Evans eating their dinner-a steak, which Montgomery particularly enjoys because he thinks he has successfully concealed the fact that it was stolen...
...pick. In rapid succession came two other killings, several murderous attempts. By the time you have struggled after Inspector Andrews through tortuous experiments to his triumphant conclusion you will have snapped at so many red herrings by the way that you will welcome the not altogether probable denouement...
...move to a magnificent home in Manhattan. The tycoon's wife allows herself to be cajoled by a mustachioed gigolo. The son of the family becomes a whiskey-sot. The daughter, painfully snubbed by socialites, falls in love with one who does not snub her (Leslie Howard). A denouement of sorts arrives when the son, overcome by alcoholic despair, commits suicide in an airplane. The tycoon then begins to look after his wife. The daughter, it seems, will get the man she wants although by this time he has married another girl...
Recaptured Love (Warner). Dedicated to the proposition that there is no fool like an old fool, this shows how a clever wife handles an aging husband's infatuation with a younger woman. No new twist is given the theatrical stencil except the inept title which, proclaiming the denouement, effectively checkmates suspense. On the stage it was Misdeal, a play by Basil Woon. Belle Bennett and John Halliday are in it. Best sequence: Miss Bennett teasing the husband who wants to come home...