Word: denouements
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...Amour." Mary Haines, hoping until the last that her husband will call her back, succeeds in sending home the youngest of the Women (Adrienne Marsden) without a divorce. Mary herself is doomed to two bitter years as a divorcee before her chance comes in a laudably natural denouement to turn the tables on the second Mrs. Haines and get back her man, this time for keeps...
Black Limelight spins along smoothly enough for two acts, bogs down at the denouement, is saved on total rating by the abilities of George Curzon (lately the Parnell of Parnell), Winifred Lenihan and Alexander Kirkland...
...giant loudspeakers. He then proceeded to read several letters written by far-sighted alumni in 1836 to be read at the 1936 Tercentenary. President Quincy, it turned out, had neglected to seal them up before 1843. An unnamed Philadelphia graduate had been willing to wait a century for the denouement of a crabbed jest when he wrote: ''I owe nothing to the president, professors and tutors of Harvard College in office from 1810 to 1814." Of larger interest was a note from Samuel Atkins Eliot, later Harvard's treasurer, apologizing for delay in some Bicentenary task because...
Seen But Not Heard (by Marie Baumer & Martin Berkeley; D. A. Doran. producer) is one of those semi-serious melodramas in which the actions of the characters are motivated entirely by necessities of plot. Its principal actors are three juveniles. That circumstance permits the authors to finesse one natural denouement after another by having the old folks squelch the children every time they are in a position to reveal important evidence as to who killed Aunt Helen and Uncle John...
...like an open-&-shut case against Sir Gregory and his pals, especially when he pleaded guilty to the charge of drug-smuggling. At the crucial moment, however, he showed that he was not a professor for nothing. Sensation in court; defendants dismissed with thanks. Oppenheimers will chuckle at this denouement ; non-Oppenheimers may slam the book shut, muttering that The Magnificent Hoax is well and truly named...