Word: harlotization
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...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...
...town. Editor James Gordon Bennett himself covered the story for his New York Herald. Author Komroff, changing the names of his protagonists to Oliver Benson and Jane Holden, follows closely the history of the case, but takes it further, deeper than Editor Bennett did. Jane, like many a storybook harlot, was pathological only in having a heart of gold. She gave Benson her true love. For a while he liked it. Unfortunately he was a black-hearted villain, with ambitions toward a respectable marriage. Since Jane threatened to be an embarrassing liability he decided to liquidate her. Benson was quickly...
...bobbing through the realistic din. Not less topical than Ulysses, Alexander platz is more sordid, more sentimental. Herr Doblin's Dublin is Berlin: his hero one Franz Biberkopf, denizen of the city's lesser deeps. Just released from Tegel Prison after serving four years for killing his harlot-mistress, Biberkopf in tends to go straight, shake off the crooked company he kept before. He sells news papers, manages respectability for a while. Then he runs into his evil genius, one Reinhold, a strange, unhappy criminal type, who sips lemonade but gulps women. A month with one is always...