Word: lover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poems. Narratives inform the body of Robinson Jeffers' verse. Tamar, of which the above are the opening lines, unrolls a tragedy of incest, Hebraic in origin (II Samuel xiii), Greek in treatment. Tamar Cauldwell, slender virgin in a rotting house, makes her brother her lover, takes another lover to shade the fruit of her sin. The ghost of old Caukler's incestuous sister?returning through the trances of a fat psychic aunt, Stella, and the gibbering of an idiot aunt, "poor Jinny" ?torments Tamar, tells her a curse is in her blood, inescapable, unclean. Tamar, fearless and fire-souled...
...perhaps a head of the same quality, marries an elfin, wistful sprite of a wife a few minutes before charging off to war. On his return, he is deaf from the conflict, enabling his wife to carry on her languishing conversations with her ad interim lover...
...show put upon the stage, the strings are made too evident by the dramatist. Effects of huge shadows and splashes of vivid color sometimes divert attention from the fact that the characters themselves are pulled about in jerks. Miriam Hopkins, erstwhile of musical comedy, and Fredric March as the lover have several plangent scenes together, and C. Henry Gordon pitches about energetically as the husband. But the trail of the sawdust is over the play...
...Conference. He could make speeches, say what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, but that was all. With all his might he counselled France to extend her northeast frontier to the historic and natural boundary of the Rhine; but the anti-Catholic Clemenceau, no lover of Catholic Foch, would not listen. Indeed, Clemenceau would not listen to much more that the Marshal said...
WHAT PRICE GLORY?-Continues to be the successful portrayal of the mud and swear words and sincerity which were life on the Western Front. THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED -A picture of California with some of the sunshine omitted. The old man, the young wife, the inevitable lover. DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS-Eugene O'Neill's treatment of the same old man, young wife and lover situation. More deeply tragic, more directly frank. WHITE CARGO - The horror of the white for the brown melts away under the lonely suns of Africa. SILENCE-The good old crook-and-virtue...