Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sophie Treadwell. who last season contributed Machinal to Broadway's annals of despair, returns this year with a glancing comedy of love in the psychoanalysis belt. A Viennese practitioner of that science prescribes adultery for the wife of a boorish editor. His nostrum proves rather unpalatable, for the lover she chooses is too torrid for a woman acclimated to a temperate zone. Then too, her husband is rather unpleasant about the liaison, so she finally dashes off to Austria with the doctor. Walter Connolly is excellent as the smug, foolish husband, but Henry Hull's persistently fortissimo rendition...
...Foolish Lover--Handel...
Alexander Pushkin once wrote a story which concerned an old countess and her granddaughter, three cards and the young girl's lover. The old countess was called Pique-Dame (Queen of Spades) because years before as Belle of St. Petersburg she had attended masquerades in such a costume and because-this was only whispered about the court-she knew three cards by which a gambler could infallibly make his fortune. The soldier, Heran, loved Lisa, the granddaughter, but he had no money. The countess's secret preyed upon him and he hid himself one night in her room...
...never-never land of Zilania is the scene for Sweethearts; a disguised princess (Gladys Baxter), the heroine given the Sweetheart waltz to sing; an heir presumptive (Charles Massinger), the hero ("Every Lover must Meet His Fate"). Both careful performers, they did well with tunes that are still fresh and crinkling...
...mother the girl inherited delusions of grandeur and, possibly, a syphilitic infirmity. Until the age of nine she fibbed regularly, stole money, perfumes and laces from relatives. Then "consumption of the bowels" drove her to bed, where she began memorizing the Scriptures. Recovering, she became no sinful "great lover" despite the boastful penitence which she later expressed. When young Doctor-Boarder Gloyd kissed Carry, 19, in a dark hallway, she twice shouted: "I am ruined!" She married this man. She blamed the failure of the union, and her husband's death, not on her own connubial shortcomings...