Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What do we think of England?" she said in answer to a correspondent's question. "What would any country think of another which held it in subjugation? It is vain to expect justice from a race so blind and drunk with the arrogance of power,* the bitter prejudice of race and creed and color, drunk moreover with abysmal ignorance...
...excess brings misery. The heroine (Dorothy Jordan) is the daughter of a charming but besotted Southern gentleman (Lewis Stone). His suicide and the inherited alcoholism of her brother are enough to make her drink shy. She has an even better reason. In Manhattan, where she finds her brother drunk in a hotel, she meets a youth (Robert Young), whose father, like her own, is inebriate. Because of Prohibition, the father (Walter Huston) drinks raw alcohol in large quantities. It drives him so wild that he beats his wife to death. Dorothy Jordan and Robert Young are drawn together by their...
When, at 16, she becomes pregnant, she steals 100 francs from the local post office and runs away to Bordeaux. There she miscarries the child, takes to prostitution as a starving bird takes to a cage. The captain of a tramp steamer gets her drunk, whisks her off with him to Venezuela. There he drops her; there, bit by bit, she begins to collect money to get back to her adored France...
...wish that Miss Romany and Mr. Strudurick, as Amelia, and Wrigley, had more veuve. They both needed something, one cocktail apiece, perhaps. Mr. Cothem, however, as the inebriated Smythe, and he remains drunk throughout the play, was an endless source of humor. Amy Loomis, as Elizabeth Tweedle, his co-merrymaker, adds the crown of light amusement. Her sister, serene and reticent, played by Miss Ray; the pompous lawyer, George Appleway, played by Mr. Bowker; the ultra-coldness of Miss. Pointeyter, as the retainer; and the perfect butler, Mr. Lucas, are able and amusing types of the sophisticated Victorianism which forms...
...good photography, competent acting, have not resuscitated this frail, old plot. The dowager mother (Pauline Frederick), psychopath! cally jealous of her son's affections, willfully twists Daisy's innocent relationship with the family black sheep (John Litel) into a scandal. One night Daisy, lonely and desperate, gets drunk and inadvertently runs away with Litel. Though she immediately returns, the mother triumphantly drives her from the house, her husband believes her guilty. Later when Daisy comes surreptitiously to abduct her child, matters are set aright...