Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change besides the title which the producers have made in Sir James Barrie's The Old Lady Shows Her Medals is the suggestion that the gaunt soldier whom a scrubwoman pretends is her son and takes pride in as a hero, was really an unpatriotic realist who planned to desert his regiment as soon as he got to London on leave. It is just enough of a change to key the story up to cinema requirements without destroying any of its tenderness. Because she felt embarrassed when other scrub- women boasted of their fighting sons, old Mrs. Dowey (Beryl Mercer...
...about this point you begin to feel sure that Myra will desert her lover rather than pollute him, that he will ultimately learn the truth and ignore it, that she will then promise to be a good girl until he returns from the wars with a marriage license. The playwright who has done nothing to disturb these expectations is Robert Emmet Sherwood, usually devoted not to emotional ferments but to the risabilities (The Road to Rome, The Queen's Husband). The very modest measure of success that he achieves with this sentimentally serious play is largely due to June...