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MARTHA WINSTON FANE...
Specifically, then, under Cinema, p. 45, The Painted Veil, your premises are that 1) Mrs. Fane's marriage was loveless and ignoble at the time of her arrival in Hong Kong; 2) She committed adultery; and 3) Her marriage was neither loveless nor ignoble at the conclusion of the picture. From these premises you conclude that "the picture . . . can be considered an advertisement for adultery as a matrimonial cure-all." In other words, since the marriage was happier after the adultery, it was happier because of the adultery...
...Painted Veil (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Dr. Walter Fane (Herbert Marshall) goes to the door of his wife's bedroom in Hongkong, he finds it locked. On the hall table lies a polo helmet. From these two facts he knows that his Katrin (Greta Garbo) is sinning with a cool young legation attaché (George Brent). At dinner that night, Dr. Fane presents Katrin with a choice: she will leave with him for Mei-tan-fu, where cholera is epidemic, or she will marry the attach...
...Katrin has time to think about her misdemeanors. While Dr. Fane is busy treating cholera-stricken natives, she sits at home, listening to the babble of her Chinese maid who calls her "Missy" and a cockney resident named Waddington (Forrester Harvey). By the time the doctor has relented so far as to offer to send Katrin back to Hongkong, she has decided to stay in Mei-tan-fu as a nurse. Dr. Fane is wounded in a riot and at the same time the attaché arrives in Mei-tan-fu to see how Katrin is making out. She gives...
...Fane's relations with her husband had remained as they were when she first arrived in Hongkong, hers would have been a loveless and ignoble marriage. Since it is nothing of the sort at the conclusion of The Painted Veil, the picture, despite the fact that Censor Joseph Breen gave it Certificate of Approval No. 395, can be considered an advertisement for adultery as a matrimonial cureall. In this respect it follows Somerset Maugham's shallow novel, from which it was adapted. In other respects, except that it lacks the rapid-fire beginning in which the two lovers...