Word: ennui
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...women profits through its sound humanity. There are no artful devices to contrast the lives of the aristocratic young lady and the second maid, and no attempts to sentimentalize the gulf that lies between them. They are, patently, what they are. And in addition Mr. Upham suggests the terrible ennui that lies upon the sophisticates, reading interminably to reach life through the book, while the less fortunate serfdom is possessing it on "Thursday evenings out." I recommend this excellent bit above the others...
...seen in Manhattan as recently as 1928, at the Civic Repertory Theatre" It is now presented by the American Laboratory Theatre, small, highbrow, student-subscription organization, and serves to introduce its new directress Maria Germanova, late of the Moscow Art Theatre. Perhaps the greatest exposition of the horrors of ennui, it introduces three daughters of a deceased Russian army officer who are compelled to remain in a slumbrous provincial town when they long for the bright Moscow of their imagination. Irina slowly shrivels a's she teaches school. Olga's devoted but unprepossessing lover is killed...
...those present, the persons, staring about them with ennui or enthusiasm were the most absurd. The rabbits crawled about in wire enclosures, their noses twitching with annoyance, their legs dragging in bewildered apathy. The guinea pigs dozed or squeaked with fury. The fowl alone presented a pleasing appearance. Their bright plumes flashed and glittered; their stupid, shining eyes were red with pride or excitement as they strutted, with an excess of vigor, around their tiny hutches. The air, dark with smoke, lacking the dusty sweetness of a barnyard, was filled with the shrill, silly clamor of their voices. Roosters, supercharged...
...course, Elsie Hilary, instead of allowing all the lords and ladies to arouse her ennui or resentment, aroused in them a great liking for her. She stirred the Duke of Warrington to a feeling more ardent than approval; and since she loved the Duke, she ended the agreement with her first lord. But the Duke of Warrington had an old flame whose husband died at just this inopportune moment. Elsie Hilary therefore compelled him to go to her rival rather than come to her in dishonor. Having so neatly forced an opportunity to show how Elsie Hilary had been trapped...
...derived its name, part of its plot. Those reasons-Gershwin music. Gertrude Lawrence, Oscar Shaw-are missing in the movie. Instead there is Colleen Moore, never a great inducement for movie going, hardly more than usual in this offering, which tells of a noble English girl who, besieged by ennui and an unwanted suitor, goes down to the sea in a small ship, drifts into a storm, is rescued by rum-runners...