Word: harlot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life of an aging harlot is not likely to be much like a faun's afternoon. In A Day Off the blowzy heroine, just ditched by her last furtive provincial protector, blows in all her remaining shillings on a junket to Richmond Park, to have a nap on the grass. In the ladies' room she has luck enough to steal a purse, and when she gets home she finds a farewell present from George under her door. But she knows the jig is almost up. Authoress Jameson puts her to bed, watches her doze off. "The pulse...
...aesped into the headlines again. In a speech defending Prohibition (O quam to memorem virgo) she urged that every woman in the United States should go into morning when the eighteenth amendment is repealed. In no other way can the nation's relapse into the arms of the Harlot of Rum be fittingly symbolized...
...Dust (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a rowdy exposition of bed manners on a rubber plantation back of Saigon, French Indo-China. In the persons of Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, impersonating a harlot and a lusty planter, two predatory carnivores are brought together, happily rend each other...
...Harlot Harlow is associated with Gable's drunken overseer, Donald Crips, when she spies Gable who has already spied Mary Astor. the ultra-refined wife of his new engineer. Gene Raymond. While Miss Astor snubs the coarse Harlow, Gable doctors Raymond through an attack of tropical fever, leers Astorwards, lays his plans. Upon Raymond's recovery he sends him off to set up a construction camp sufficiently far away from the plantation to make commuting impossible. His leers mount in ferocity and effectiveness and Mary Astor succumbs, loses her self respect, gets sloppy. Harlot Harlow discovering that...
...food does not spoil. Green mold does not sprout on everything. The heat is not heat at all. Faces are unsweated. Appetites are healthv. The weather does not. as in the play, exhaust the characters of energy, ravel out their nerves. Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford) is no longer a harlot. She is a dull girl with an unfortunate past. Joan Crawford works hard but looks too wholesome and collegiate to suit the part. The basic trouble really is that Rain is presented as a classic, not as the 10-20-30 melodrama of popping sex and fanaticism that Maugham wrote...