Word: loved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Generously the great Actor-Manager Sacha Guitry provided for his choosey feminine patrons two Lindberghs-Voila! Also he entitled his piece Charles Lindbergh-A Heroic Melodrama. Finally, with the cunning of a master dramatist, he supplied love interest-without offending that large section of French womanhood to whom Le Colonel is attractive chiefly as a symbol of masculine chastity...
...spite of its frail conclusion and the inevitable echoes of the shots which, fired in the play Broadway, were heard round the world, this picture begins with a good idea: two reporters go to a dance-hall hostess who has the dope about the innocent boy's love affair with a little cabaret girl (Olive Borden). What she tells one of the reporters, constitutes the plot of a well-acted, fairly exciting picture proving principally that Olive Borden is a better actress than most people have believed. Best shot: New Year's day in San Francisco...
...mistress by marrying her to Hialmar Ekdal, the son of a man whom the libertine had ruined. Gregers Werle tattles to Hialmar Ekdal, who is much too little a fool to disbelieve him. Knowing that his adolescent daughter is really the child of another man, he snubs her love for him, wherefore she kills herself...
Motives: his wife is with child by his brother; his mother has observed this. Thus-out of love or pity for the invalid-mother, brother or wife would have reason to spare the invalid the pain of disillusion. Suffice it to say here that love was the motive; and you can easily pick the murderer...
...nurse is the most important character in the play. Her idea of DUTY is a strange mixture of hate for the invalid's wife, love for the invalid, horror of sexual irregularity. Of her, the mother says: "I cannot help feeling sorry for a girl who has so much virtue and so little charm...