Word: denouement
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...suavity of the tone with which it is uttered and the unfailing gaiety that gives it point. Director Marshall Neilan does a good job transposing stage values to the screen. Actress Claire plays with a deftness perfected during the weeks when she was doing The Awful Truth on Broadway. Denouement: the husband learns the awful truth of the intrigue of which he has suspected his wife, and which, of course, was not an intrigue at all. Best shot: showing the use that can be made of a pass...
Gambling is a production in his best Broadway manner, possessed of a sharp, exciting first act, a specious but persuasive denouement and a cast that includes also Mary Phillips as Mazie...
...clear case. However, by calmly assuming the guilt, Guy was able, on a technicality, to go free. Afterward Dr. Priestley, discovering how the murder really happened, forebore to reveal his knowledge to the State. The story differs from others of its ilk in that, in the usual denouement of ''bringing the criminal to justice," justice here involves neither police-courts nor retribution. Murder at Bratton Grange is sent out by the Detective Story Club...
...trial denouement the little boy accused of murdering his bad stepmother is cleared by a device proving that she was killed by her lover. Typical shot: Mickey McBan, baby soprano, singing "My Daddy's the Best Daddy...
...stars are nearly all on hand just now. Lenore Ulric brings her blandishments to Belasco's "Mima", fairly swarming with devils and nightly shaking the stage when its steel hell collapses in the denouement. There is Katharine Cornell in a poor dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel, "The Age of Innocence", the star at her finest and given brilliant support in a stuffy play by Arnold Korff. Alice Brady graces with effective acting the rather trivial play based on the old badger game, "A Most Immoral Lady...