Word: flibbertigibbets
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Dona St. Columb, though of the 17th-century English noblesse, has a soul the simplest of women will understand. Love's tide has ebbed, leaving her stranded high & dry with two children and a dim flibbertigibbet of a husband (Ralph Forbes) who seems almost to encourage his wolfish crony Lord Rockingham (Basil Rathbone) to lick his chops at her. Dona is sick of London's mad social whirl, sick, sick, as she tells her husband, of "the stupid futile life we lead here." Finally, one dawn, she packs up and flounces off with her children to their country...
...this case is Stonewall Elliott (Fred MacMurray), who lost his ancestral home when the bank foreclosed and sold it to a young Manhattan sportsman, Norman Williams (Stirling Hayden). They become two corners of a four-cornered triangle. The other two are Stoney's wandering wife, a man-crazy flibbertigibbet (never seen in the flesh) who once had an affair with Norman, and Charlie Dunterry (Madeleine Carroll), a Southerner reared in the north who comes back to have a look at her family homestead...
...prosperous run. The god Broadway was beginning to give her glory in good measure. Her What Every Woman Knows was a great personal and financial success, and the next year (1927), she took a chance on a play that had the unhappiest ending imaginable-the heroine, a Southern flibbertigibbet, shoots herself in the last act. This was Coquette, which had to be interrupted while Miss Hayes bore her new husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur, their famed daughter Mary...
Christine Galvosier, 19, lives in a household which her father (toothy, droll A. E. Matthews) describes with cheerful resignation as "a railroad station, with everyone waiting for a different train.'' Her mother (Alice Brady, released into comedy after funereal Mourning becomes Electra) is a charming flibbertigibbet who seldom sees her rascally son or impatiently virginal daughter. Result: Daughter Christine is seduced, impregnated by a youthful Egyptian. Enter tragedy...
...Then occurred another upset. Miss Ryan was sorry-it was the heat or something she had eaten, no doubt-but illness forced her to default to Mrs. Mallory. Thus it came about that in the finals the brown Mrs. Mallory found herself once more opposing that poker-faced, Nordic flibbertigibbet who defeated her last year for the National title (TIME, Aug. 25)-Miss Helen Wills. She lost the first three games, all of which went to deuce, then won six in a row. Miss Wills pounded hard to the baseline, took the next two sets...