Word: nouement
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...ingeniously handled. Ruth Chatterton and Basil Rathbone act it as well as you can conceive of its being acted. But somehow its balance and unity have been altered. Faithful to its original, The Lady of Scandal is fair entertainment, but it never becomes a moving picture. Dénouement-Miss Chatterton, forced to live on trial for six months in the house of her prospective in-laws, falling in love with her fiance's cousin...
...occasional bits in quite the Stevensonian vein. Naturally it is the very modern heroine who undoes the doctor by giving herself to him when he had expected to seduce her formally. She, so to speak, ravishes from him the long nurtured orchid of his wickedness. The grim dénouement, though revealed at the inception of the plot, is so skillfully contrived as to come off amid real suspense. Altogether a fine technical performance by an author who pretends only to melodrama but achieves something more...
...trick. Collegiate fops who declared that there have been no witty women since the 18th Century were laughed to scorn. The Lampoon was worsted. For a day jubilation pranced in the Crimson editorial rooms-and then, on a plain typewritten sheet, came the cruel, the incredible dénouement...