Word: lorinda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broadcasting news of Corpo atrocities from Canada. In the novel, Doremus Jessup was a tough-fibred fighter for the Liberal cause. In the play, he is a pitiable dodderer who fails to realize what is happening until his son-in-law is murdered. It is his spinster friend, Lorinda Pike, who spots the Corpo invasion from afar. Jessup's love affair with her is played down to the point where it might pass as platonic. Much more faithful to the original are the characters of Effingham Swan, hairy-handed but carefully-manicured Corpo commander who says, "Just take...
...almost entirely responsible for surmounting the obvious obstacles and weaknesses of the play. This reviewer confidently expected a sorry play acted by a cast of second-rate stock-company players, but he was pleasantly surprised. The parts of the small-town liberal editor, Doremus Jessup, of sharp-tongued Lorinda Pike, uncouth, imbecilic Shad LeDue, capitalistic Francis Tasbough, suave, silken Commandant Swan and sanctimonious Parson Prang are filled competently, even played momentarily with flashes of insight. It is no fault of theirs that the audience occasionally laughs in the wrong places; rather it is the fault of the medium...
...King's dialog is bookish, lifeless, unconvincing. But he has a knack of conveying a sense of horror ; in one Invitation to a Murder scene a rich and powerful California lady lies in a deathlike trance, shrouded, while the grisly organ music of her funeral fills her mansion. Lorinda Channing (Gale Sondergaard) feigns death with the aid of a struggling physician (Walter Abel) to trap a relative who has been trying to poison her. Returning from the tomb, she personally executes her would-be assassin, neatly shifts the blame to another. Between waves of goose-pimples, audiences have spells...