Word: faithlessness
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...which the cinema customarily treats the classics, is a pictorially beautiful adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's famed novel. It shows Marlene Dietrich, sinning as usual, but not without good reason. She is Lily Czepanek, a Berlin model who suffers successively from associations with a drunken, tyrannical aunt, a faithless lover, a brutish husband and a riding master...
TIME errs, and TIME-believer Flushing's Morris Myers, M.D. errs (TIME, Nov. 21) if believing: "In the picture Faithless that 'she has become a prostitute to get money for the doctor.' " The writer, screenplaywright of Faithless, and his late great & good friend, Producer Paul Bern, made sure of factual deference to known and admitted medical ethics, caused the discussed situation to hinge on only the Bankhead-spoken lines, "The doctor didn't say where I was to get the money for these things?"-a definite implication of satisfactory medical attention-and the Bankhead return with...
...Faithless (MGM). Having tried four times without much success to find a satisfactory vehicle for Tallulah Bankhead, whose eyelids have been compared to the fat stomachs of sunburned babies,* Paramount decided to lend her to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and see what happened. Faithless will probably leave Miss Bankhead about where she was before. She has a more full-bodied role than in Thunder Below, Tarnished Lady, My Sin and The Devil and The Deep, and a better leading man (Robert Montgomery). Otherwise, the picture is in the Bankhead tradition, a solemn sexual mumbo-mumbo of wealth impoverished and beauty...
...Faithless McAdoo? Justus Wardell, Mr. McAdoo's most serious primary opponent, is a San Francisco business man who worked hard and well for the Brown Derby in 1928 but switched to his old friend Governor Roosevelt this year. Candidate Wardell, a wringing Wet, promises to offer a Repeal resolution immediately on reaching the Senate. Last week at a Wardell campaign luncheon in San Francisco, a speaker loudly accused Mr. McAdoo of "faithlessness to his party," adding: "He didn't support the nominee in 1928 and he ran away to Europe in 1924. He did nothing to stop the campaign...
...What a splendid thing," he exulted, "that it has passed from the uncertain and faithless hand of Baldwin to the statesmanlike grasp of [Canadian Premier] Bennett...