Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year and M. de Paris was never raised. Recently Mme. de Paris, desperate and confident in the potency of a woman's nagging, approached the Minister of Justice, spoke volubly anent the high cost of Life, the low wage of Death. Last week, her confidence was vindicated. Her husband's salary was raised to a still paltry...
Kenneth MacKenna is a young husband, out to make good in the financial world. To him and to Peggy Wood, his ambitious wife, an appointment to the German office of his firm symbolizes success second only to an appointment to the Shanghai branch. On the day before the appointment is to be announced he resigns his position, feeling that he is not to get the coveted appointment. Next day he tells his wife, is still explaining away when in bursts an old flame. At this point Playwright Strong trephines the husband's skull, lays open the human brain. Centers...
...brain scene ends and the play continues conventionally up to the inevitable amorous scene between the husband and his old flame. Once again there is a flashback to the cerebral. With no subtlety at all the action of the brain during a complete seduction is described...
Remorsefully the unfaithful husband returns to his wife and upon learning that his firm has rewarded the ambition which she stirred, he penitently confesses and is given absolution...
Peggy Wood (whose fame so transcends that of her own husband, John VanAlstyn Weaver, that he has been facetiously called Mister Peggy Wood) makes a good wife; Katherine Wilson is real as the seductress who "makes" a good husband; Playwright Strong has made a good play...