Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there was Perpetual, owned and driven by foxy Doc Parshall, the Earl Sande of the sulky circuit. Perpetual, no great shakes as a two-year-old, had won three big stake races this summer (the Matron, the National and the Historic). But Doc's colt had recently come down with a fever, was seen stepping around the track wearing a jowl strap only an hour before the Big Race...
...simulates the original novel in every detail. All the emotions and reactions of a twentieth-century working girl and her undercover affair with a famous banker are there in perfect order. So much stirring of the human soul could, however, be fit only for the sensitivities of a disappointed matron, which is the aim of everything Miss Hurst has written...
...unity of that fine old American institution, home-life in New York. From dawn till dusk this knee-pant Trojan wages attrition warfare against the temptations to which his weaker-willed parents are subjected: a sheik-like artist in the case of his portraitgenic mother, and a dove-like matron innocently laying the net for his father. Lily Cahill, la mere; Jay Fassett, le pere, Eddie Nugent, le beau de L'arte;--these and the remainder of the cast are all quite adequate. But it is Monsieur Thomas, L'enfant terrible par excellence, who provides the freshness and snap "Your...
...villainy took place in the course of seven weeks. To begin with, he was the kindly chum of Linda Dale, whose husband, a wealthy mill owner, had skipped out on her. Taking Linda to the movies, plying her with goodies, the doctor made such an impression on the young matron that she decided to get an Enoch Arden divorce. Then Husband Eric Dale popped out of nowhere, eager once more for Linda. Upset and unnerved, Linda rejected his advances, proceeded to New York to brood...
...Cronin's protagonists are standard stock, the rest of his cast is even more so. Painfully familiar are the kindly old doctor who plays solitaire, the desiccated matron in black who hatches plots, the wife of the sanatorium's chief who likes to have her virtue sullied by the hero of the piece. Reasonably well acted, Jupiter Laughs could be diagnosed as a sad case of dramatic leukemia...