Word: murderesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Miss Chatterton has the role of the murderess and Adolph Menjou plays opposite her as her husband playwright whose philanderings with the beautiful and popular star of his revue, leads to the tragedy...
Doctor Monica (adapted by Laura Walker from the Polish of Marja M. Szczepkowska; Robert Martin, producer). The oval, heavy-eyed face of Alia Nazimova is now lined and pouched with old hysterias. Her mouth pulls naturally down at the corners. Her pictures make her look either like the bedraggled murderess at the scene of the crime or like Mary, Queen of Scots. Yet the baroque stumblings, wrist-wavings, jaw-droppings, head-wagglings with which Miss Nazimova documents Doctor Monica seriously involved Manhattan audiences in a play that should have been a dull and outdated feminist tract...
...South Sea island and a character named Ton-deleyo raised merry Ned among the resident white men with her "mammy-pala-ver." Mr. Gordon's present drama takes place for the most part in the frozen North, but there is still plenty of "mammy-palaver." It concerns a murderess who flees with her elderly and devoted lawyer to the north woods when conviction seems certain. The old man goes snow blind. A strapping woodsman entertains the girl and the whole thing ends in death & destruction. The girl is Nancy Carroll, round-faced, red-headed little film actress. Miss Carroll...
...extent-what Gertrude Stein is. but it will leave pedestrian readers still puzzling their heads over why this obviously shrewd and salty old lady, whose sentences may seem rather primer-like but are just as lucid as a primer's, should have gathered such a lurid reputation as murderess of the King's English. Such readers should remember that in Alice B. Toklas Authoress Stein is on her best behavior. If they are sufficiently curious to look up some of her wilder work, this is the kind of thing they may find...
...midst of a number of characters and characterizations which are about as lifelike as Victorian porcelain under glass, hitherto frail Miss Gish stands out full-blooded and alive. Gone is her pastel shy- ness, gone are her girlish gasps as she takes the part of the murderess who gave up a pallid suitor to stalk Electra-like after her vicious father and his paramour through the gloom of their New England parlor, killing one with a walking stick, another with a flat iron. Actress Gish still has a strong hold on her part in the otherwise flabby final scene when...