Word: marda
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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This sentiment seldom cloys because Ernest Truex gives the most serious, tender performance of his career and Marda Vanne as the wife never forgets restraint. Certain episodes exhibit flagrancies of aste. But when the daughter (Maisie Darrel) confesses her troubles to a stalwart boy who wants her love (Robert Douglas), the scene trembles with tragedy and gallantry. And a parody of court procedure is introduced which provides peerless comic relief...
...Montmorencys who lingered: she because of Danielstown itself-"doorways had framed a kind of expectancy of her; some trees in the distance, the stairs, a part of the garden, seemed always to have been lying secretly at the back of her mind"-and he because of Marda Norton. Marda was leaving next day, to visit her fiance in Kent. Meanwhile she walked with Montmorency- and Lois-along the river toward a deserted mill...
...Marda wanted to explore-and incidentally to escape Montmorency; she and Lois ventured into the gloom, relishing a fear that was "a kind of deliciousness." A crop of nettles, a dead cow, and by the stairs a prostrate lump that was a man. Sleepily he stirred, instinctively levelled his pistol at them; accidentally it went off, nipped Marda in the hand. The girls explained they were merely out for a walk; the man snarled it was time they gave up walking-for he was a Black-&-Tan, exhausted from days of guerrilla warfare, and they were the Irish aristocracy that...