Word: harlotization
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...girls are added to the plot. The first, a harlot who rejected Hassan, came to him with power and fled when he fell, is an easy part that almost any pretty actress could portray. Accordingly the producers gave it to their most expensive player, Mary Nash. She did what she could with it. The other girl, for whom the King of the Beggars wove his plot, was entrusted wisely to Violet Kemble Cooper, who made it easily the most important role of the play. Randal Ayrton, from London, played Hassan, conventionally, correctly, completely missing the weakness, the beauty, the humanity...
...came through martyrdom and exile to this peace--St. Thomas, Pietro della Vigna, Giordano Bruno. Pietro, Chancellor, of the Emperor Frederick II., and like him a poet, delivered his master's character to the university. Blinded by the Emperor, who trusted to forged letters, the work of onvy, "the harlot, who ne'er turned her gloating eyes from Caesar's household," he dashed, his head against a wall, according to his legend. Dante finds him in the Harpy-haunted Wood of suicides and lets him defend his honor and good faith...
...little of the power of "Good Friday," it can in all probability be due only to the stronger appeal which that story makes to the Christian emotions. For the account he gives us is convincing; for the moment we forget that her name has come to be synonymous with "harlot," and feel for Jezebel somewhat the same tender sympathy that we give to Marie Antoinette...
RAIN-The tale of a California harlot marooned in a dripping South Sea wilderness inhabited by U. S. marines and missionaries. In plainest English...
RAIN-Jeanne Eagels in her fifth century of performances as a 20th Century harlot in the South Seas...