Word: samaritanism
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...Samaritan. In White Plains, N.Y., James Sinkler, driving down a main street, spotted a friend being questioned by police, protested "Let him go-I'll pay his fine," could not produce his driver's license, spent the night in jail while his friend went free...
...horrors of a Penny-dreadful--fog, train whistles, echoing voices, mist shrouded waters--and it all seems too heavy for the stories to bear. The worst sufferer is a drab little fable with the moral the Beauty Lies in the Heart. With the aid of a spectral Samaritan, Dorothy Fields proves the point by shedding the bags under her eyes when she learns the meaning of love. Duvivier makes the whole thing pretty intense, with the actors expressing utter banalities with deadly seriousness. When the embittered hero, for example, declares: "I wanted to be President!" he sounds as determined...
...Good Samaritan. In Lorain, Ohio, a housewife lost $135 cash and a $15 gas bill on her way to the Ohio Fuel Gas Co., went home to get some more money, was told by a gas company clerk that someone had just come in and paid her bill but had said nothing about the other...
...Hunziker's "Water and Light" window, the ship at center right holds "a nameless group of suffering people who hope to travel upriver to well-being." Along the winding course ahead are a doctor and patient, a family bathing, nurses drying a sheet before a fire, a good Samaritan carrying a patient across a bridge, and a shepherd with his flock. At the source of the stream a couple roams blissfully in the paradise they have found at journey's end. In its quiet mixture of suffering, hope and joy, the window is altogether appropriate to the hospital...
Miss Davis' real life husband, Gary Merrill, is better cast as a good samaritan who fumbles around with several lives. But these lives are only a series of soap operas which the producers string together with a very frail thread...