Word: jilt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belle France of little Francisco Franco received a set-back last week. The French-British courtship had been planned along these lines: the Loyalists were to be persuaded to quit, the Rebel Generalissimo was to be recognized and then, it was hoped, he could be persuaded to jilt Germany and Italy, who had helped him so well to win his war. But, to the democracies' chagrin, the Generalissimo suddenly got the sulks...
...Jilt After Jilt...
...civilization is on the make, and the Trojans, whose civilization is (in the best sense) finished. She makes her mouth piece-heroine a character unmentioned by Homer-Cressida, daughter of the Trojan's Chief Priest of Apollo, ill-famed in literature (by Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare) as a heartless jilt. Chosen as a central character because her "legendary real" identity offers the widest freedom for creating a sensitive female observer, Laura Riding's Cressida is not jilt but "almost in her time what woman may be in ours.'' This Cressida does not leave her Trojan lover Troilus...
That part of John Meade's Woman which is geared to these phenomena is an effectively written, well-photographed slice of U. S. industrial history. Less effective is the overlong recital of the process by which John Meade comes to jilt his society sweetheart (Gail Patrick) by marriage with the humblest woman he can find (Francine Larrimore). At times patently uneasy with the camera's quiet tempo, Miss Larrimore on the whole does well in her first screening, especially when she gets a chance to turn on high-tension dramatics. Her best scene: telling John Meade...
...medal, ornamented by the likeness of a stage lady of a different type. Joyce Heath (Bette Davis) is a minor-league Duse whose talents are impaired by a fondness for drink, lechery and offstage exhibitionism. She drives her husband to despair, causes a young architect (Franchot Tone) to jilt his fiancee (Margaret Lindsay), and wrecks his high-priced roadster on a tree. This produces a concussion and remorse, in which Joyce Heath abandons her bad ways...