Word: madelon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dorothy Thompson wakes up at ten o'clock and reads furiously for two or three hours in bed. Along about noon she gets up, dresses fast, then dictates her column. She has three secretaries, named Madeleine, Madeline, and Madelon (she distinguishes them by their last names). One is always at the Herald Tribune answering mail and digging up research and one or two go to her apartment to help her while she works. Miss Thompson seldom goes to her office because the telephone never stops ringing...
Recently as rare as the redskin, the noble prostitute was once a cinema favorite. Carrie Snyder, as impersonated with enormous gusto and skill by Actress Gladys George, famed for her Broadway success in Personal Appearance, rates with the noblest of them all. If intelligence counts, Carrie is better than Madelon Claudet, who sank to scrubbing floors; she certainly deserves the nod over Madame X, who forfeited her own flesh and blood. The rating of Valiant is the Word for Carrie against other noble-prostitute pictures is equally favorable. Adapted from Barry Benefield's novel, astutely directed by Wesley Ruggles...
Coolie&151;Madelon Lulofs&151;Viking...
Reginald Heber, author of From Greenland's Icy Mountains, thought savages vile; Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought them noble. Modern anthropologists make finer distinctions, think them a little of both. Madelon Lulofs, who has seen, smelt and heard many a noble-vile Javanese, would like to side with Rousseau but her conscience will not let her. Her story of how a potentially noble savage was made into an ignoble coolie would be considered too sentimental by empire-builders, too tolerant by professional friends-of-the-oppressed. To her Javanese hero it would doubtless not be comprehensible...
...What the hell, anything she can do I can do.' " What Helen Hayes subsequently did in Hollywood won her one of the little gold statuettes which are the topnotch mark of merit of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, for her performance in The Sin of Madelon Claudet, which Husband MacArthur wrote for her cinema...