Word: paola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot is equally baffling. Lucille, a woman of insufferable virtue, has disrupted the love-pre-occupied town of Aix because she won't speak to &anyone who is promiscuous or a cuckold. She refuses to speak to Armand. He realizes that his wife, Paola, is unfaithful. Paola (Cynthia Krause) thereupon drugs Lucille, and with the help of the bawd Barbette (Emily Levinc), convinces her she has been ravished by Count Marcellus (John Ross), the town Don Juan...
...married to her husband, Justice. Blanchard, she asks Marcellus to kill himself. That way, when Blanchard returns from his trip, she will be pure as before. Marcellus thinks a continued affair would be more in order, but Armand opportunely arrives to challenger him because of his former liaison with Paola Armand declares he will fight for Lucille instead. Marcellus obliges and is killed...
That doesn't help matters any, however, because Blanchard comes home a day early, and Lucille, feeling herself as yet metaphysically uncleaned, tells all. Blanchard departs in a huff. Paola and Barbette then appear and tell Lucille the truth of the matter. Blanchard comes back briefly to tell his wife to leave his house. To Armand's great consternation, Lucille doesn't fill her husband in on Paola's revelation. Paola, delighted, announces she has won the duel and has proved that life is rotten. O no, cries Lucille, and producing a phial of poison, she kills herself, to prove...
...other actors had less crucial parts, so they weren't as disappointing. I do wish Miss Krause, whose Paola was the mistress of so many scenes, had let us see some fire or some terror. The way she took command it was hardly a duel...
...seen John Ross before, well, he was the same way. He's an engaging fop, but I've seen the character too often to tell whether he was subtly corrupting, as Paola described him, or just pretentious...