Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy had set out to whitewash the Shenandoah accident. The day after Captain Foley's visit he had sent her a paper containing a suggested statement for her to make to the court. This "twisted the facts," she said; she took exception to one part which said: "My husband regarded the Shenandoah as a manofwar. He was ready at all times to take the ship out for military maneuvers, but was opposed to using her for nonmilitary duty." She especially objected to the statement that "he was ready at all times to take the ship out for military maneuvers...
Miss Taylor's latest production is a daring and penetrating effort by Philip J.Q. Barry, whose You and I was a Harvard Prize Play and a Manhattan success. He has undertaken to reveal the workings of a woman's heart; the heart of a wife whose playwright husband has made her a puppet in his mental workship. There is of course another man. Among these three a shadowy, elemental and amazingly penetrating triangle develops...
Francis Wilson is above all admirable. As the lovable but provocative Rip, he plays the part of an indolent husband to perfection. Long passages of monologue are the brightest and apparently the most simple occurrences to him. His charm is positively effervescent and his restraint of gesture is an art which his supporting cast can not study too intently. Gretchen, the desperate wife who is driven to shrewishness, is played with a wealth of interpretative understanding by Emma Dunn, while George Riddell in the role of the rich grasping merchant of Falling Waters, too phlegmatic in the first act, rises...
Rose of the World. This somewhat far flung title is tacked to an ordinary movie story of a couple of unhappy marriages. One of the wives and one of the husbands were in love but were impeded, chiefly through their own stupidity, from getting married. Therefore reels of unhappiness until the other wife rode a spritely horse and the other husband fell off a cliff...
THREE FARMS-Cynthia Stockley-Putnam's ($1.50). Farming in Rhodesia-an English master ruling in solitude over a horde of native "boys" with others of his kind living some miles away for his only neighbors. To such a farm-master, who is her husband, comes an Englishwoman to find that he no longer cares much for her. Slowly the tentacles of intrigue wind about them and their neighbors. She wins back her husband's love, only to learn that one of her neighbors with a sensual wife has been made a cuckold, and that her husband...