Word: procuresses
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Collette Marchand, as a warped bawd from the slums, is Lautree's first love. She plays the temperamental procuress with gratifying relish. Wonderfully French, Zsa Zsa Gabor sings and twitters her way through the role of Jane Avril, the toast of the Moulin Rouge. And Suzanne Flon, the woman who loves embittered Lautrec too late, is sadly appealing as one of the few unkept women in Paris...
Michael's end was sudden. He drifted away from Frossia, landed in a house of prostitution. When the police raided it soon after, Michael saw the procuress watching him steadily, "her heavily lidded eyes strangely noncommittal. It was early in the morning. She stood there in a light shawl and her dressing gown. . . ." She said, "Listen, there is very little food. . . . little room also. So many houses have been burnt down. There is little room for reptiles. The Zoological Gardens were closed down a long time...
Best (censored) shot: One of the girls limed by the procuress trying frantically to wash the stain out of her soul in the shower bath...
Censors were troubled, too, over the activities of a procuress (Junie Astor) who conducts her activities from the switchboard of the club. They finally suffered her to remain, after carefully editing the careers of the two girls she ensnares. The Sapphic inferences were noted in the character played by beauteous Else Argall, Author Deval's wife and a newcomer to cinema. Censorship deleted her best scene, which shows her successfully fighting the urge to join the girl of her desire. Considered fit for Manhattan cinemagoers was the shot in which she poisons the procuress-telephone operator. Playwright-Director Deval...
...from which Mrs. Thomas purports to have obtained cultural research. Thus, beginning at the extreme left in ancient Egypt, Queen Nefertiti (adapted from a bust in Berlin's Staatliche Museum) is to be seen putting on lipstick while her subjects do calisthenics. In ancient China, a 4th Century procuress braids a student courtesan's hair. Ladies of antique Greece are taking a shower bath while below them a pair of frizzled jades gossip in ancient Minoan. Next in this progress of lady Narcissists is Greece's Helen of Troy sizzling her hair on a curling stick...