Word: errant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grenfell has been called "the Knight Errant of the North" and two generations of U. S. school and college men, among whom he visits often to enlist funds and volunteers, have marveled at his adventures with ship and dog-sledge...
...classic situation of rural melodrama is the moment at which the eloping or otherwise errant heroine is asked to produce her "marriage lines." Lack of such is considered circumstantial evidence of the most damning sort...
...FIELD OF MUSTARD-A. E. Coppard-Knopf ($2.50). Short-Storyteller Coppard, nut-brown pantheist, transcribes life in hedgerow England with a simplicity that seems accurate and genuine. His overtones are of something dark, gentle, gypsyesque. Some themes: an errant stag and a hearty poacher; lusty village women, lying in a mustard field after fagot-gathering, wish that love could return; the noblesse oblige of a lonely schoolmaster and a proud lady; two aging, air-plant spinsters and how one of them nearly took root in village soil...
...Tell the Wife (Irene Rich, Huntley Gordon). The idea of a wife giving her errant husband tit for tat by holding hands with an old friend of the family, is simply immortal. The "variation" here introduced is to have another old friend of the family perform two marriage ceremonies which only he and the audience know are faked. Then comes the excruciating suspense while pajamas are unpacked and coverlets turned down. Whoso remembers a strip called The Marriage Circle has known this picture in a previous and superior incarnation. When U. S. counter-jumpers try to be Europeans, not even...
...infinitely more competent hands," a boarding school. Love had slipped away years before. Playwright Maugham presents what, a decade or two ago, would have been termed a "problem play," done with a modish superciliousness. He offers two reasons for a woman's being faithful to an errant spouse: her debt for board and lodging; her naturally monogamous nature as contrasted with the more catholic affections of the male. In the play the first cause for fidelity is blotted out by Constance's solvent enterprise in the interior decorating business. As for the second, it is simply an argument...