Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time together without telling their respective husband and wife anything about it. Mr. Loftus, finding two homes more expensive than one, steals his wife's jewelry to pay the bills. Mrs. Loftus calls in a detective to find the jewelry and he goes right on to find the secret love nest. One rather suspects he knew about it even before the play started, because he's the kind of detective that does known everything and, besides, he is acted by the author himself. He persuades the cuckolded pair to "play it my way" and succeeds in getting the goods...
...defending Austrians learn of the Italian strategy but dare not relinquish their position. They listen to the sound of the drilling beneath them, not knowing when they will be blown to bits. Florian (Luis Trenker) is an Austrian soldier, a native of the village below, and deeply in love with the wife from whose arms war has torn...
...picture its value is the way in which the strewn foreground of streets and people becomes a constant, potent presence in the life of the doctor's family. Tempo suffers when the actors in the story pause to explain themselves; but their emotions, chiefly the emotion of deep family love, are honestly and brilliantly presented. Ricardo Cortez, hired for his part when he explained that he was no Spaniard but a Jew, gives a sensitive and humble portrayal. Max Steiner's musical score is particularly interesting when it blends with and loses itself in the murmuring of the streets. Symphony...
...combination of hangovers, sensational denouements and bleached blondes who arrive late for the dog biscuit hour. William Haines, a continuity writer of radio hogwash, has a private office, a secretary, an insufficient salary and a venomous wife who nags him whenever he comes home, which is seldom. For love he has turned to an artist in the studio (Madge Evans), but is unable to marry her because his wife refuses to divorce him until he can earn enough to ''give her a decent alimony." He is fired for losing his sense of humor, moves to a cheap hotel, accidentally kills...
Things do not go well with Cricket and Blue. Three months after the wedding she miscarries the rich stranger's child. Blue hides her shame, but Cricket is sick of the settlement, its people and its life. Even her love for Blue cannot hold her; she runs off to New York, joins Man Jay in Harlem. When, later, they return to persuade Blue to give her a divorce, Blue cannot understand what it is all about. After a fight in which Cricket defends Blue against Man Jay, Blue lets his love go. He will see her again, no more...