Word: lysistrata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, the temper increased. Communist Deputy Fausto Gullo, a peevish pout on his face, charged his enemies with the old tactics of Lysistrata.* Cried he: "These last elections have been shameful. The government used unthinkable methods to win its majority. Do you want an example? Priests openly counseled wives to go on a 'bedroom strike' if the Communists won the elections...
...John Archer) of a Senator who is apoplectically opposed to votes for women marries a beautiful and unbudgeable suffragette (Joan Tetzel). The suffragette, finding all the men in her new family just as unbudging, makes converts, and then confederates, of the womenfolk. The wives, remembering Aristophanes' bawdy Lysistrata, stage a sex strike and bolt their doors. The husbands, remembering San Francisco's bordello-lined Barbary Coast, toss off some drinks and bolt the house. After an act of shenanigans, the two parties trade concessions...
...were given the choice between the gas chamber and continuing to live indefinitely in this insect-ridden place, eating two bowls of soup a day and not even having plumbing, I would choose the gas chamber." Like a Teutonic Lysistrata, she offered a general recipe for ending war: "Women should inform the men that if war comes they will refuse to conceive any more children...
...funny scenes. Best is one in which Tone prepares to retire to bed with a girl who he thinks is his wife, but actually is only a friend. Evidently she is not a very good friend, and the resulting argument sounds like a carelessly glossed-over version of the "Lysistrata." Of course things turn out all right, but not before we have seen all the right of this movie genre, including a car chase and a wedding at which Tone shows up in pajamas, and escorted by a Bellevue guard...
...years has seen one or two changes in stage method and technique, and only a very brisk and inventive production-such as Broadway got 16 years ago with Miriam Hopkins, Ernest Truex and Sydney Greenstreet in the cast-can make Lysistrata's joke funny enough for a whole evening. Last week's all-Negro production never even got off to a promising start...