Word: harridans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deserted beach, hoards his little store of paint and canvas, worries more about his money running out than he does about his painting. As Lindsay admirers could have guessed, the beach soon fills up with odd characters: a runaway bank clerk who sponges off Mudgett; a gin-drinking old harridan who spies on him; a tawny-haired, brown-legged girl named Cora, the old lady's granddaughter, who poses for Mudgett and inspires him to the best work he has done. Before long, peace-loving Mudgett is involved in as many complications as a Prime Minister, with...
...play brings a successful young actress (Gloria Dickson) under the vampirish influence of a fading harridan of the theatre (Josephine Victor). How the aging harpy enslaves the girl, breaks up her engagement, holds her captive even after death, is the rest of the sad story. Redhaired, ingratiating Theodore Newton (Dead End), appeared as the luckless suitor, tries in vain to better matters with dignified restraint. Gloria Dickson, the Pocatello, Idaho girl who stepped from the Federal Theatre into Hollywood fame (They Won't Forget), endowed the young actress with dazzling blondness and a fresh, strong prairie accent...
...Aegisthus as her lover, is quick with his child. Clytemnestra hacks Agamemnon to death in his bath; Electra recovers his body from a dunghill and buries it. In the last act Orestes returns from exile to slake Electra's brooding hatred by killing his mother, a pasty-faced harridan with a red wig over her grey hair. When the play ends the Furies are already making Orestes swish his sword at phantoms...
Slaughter of an old harridan, with half a dozen heirs as suspects, recounted by a specialist who prefers straightforward, foolproof solution to thrilling situations, novel characterization...
...alley off Times Square, hawked apples & oranges & gum. There Sportswriter Damon Runyon passed her many a day and on one of them he had an idea. The idea became a story, Apple Annie. The story became a moving picture, Lady For A Day, a film of a bottle-loving harridan who played for 24 hours the part of a Park Avenue dowager (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933). Before the cinema opened last autumn, Apple Annie inspired a second idea, this time in the minds of Columbia Pictures' pressagents. They would make Apple Annie herself a lady...