Word: servant-girl
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...Edna-Ferberish servant-girl is torn between her love for her fiancé and the flattering dependence of her Jewish "family...
...however, makes herself out an unextraordinary only child. Her parents got along badly. Her father used to slam the front door so much, in fact, that her mother finally attached a harplike arrangement to it which transmuted a bang into gently dying tinkles. Things Authoress Luhan remembers : that a servant-girl first (unconsciously) aroused her sexually; that the boys & girls of her set kept notebooks, with preferred ratings of the opposite sex; that Nina Wilcox (Putnam Ogle) was her playmate, though Mrs. Ogle disapproved of her; that they used to steal number-plates from front doors; that in the summers...
...spite of everything but for the dialog-line after awkward line recited in singsong and divided from the next by little fences of silence. Twin Beds is partially redeemed by one tune, "If You Were Mine" and by a few seconds of Zasu Pitts as a half-witted servant-girl. Typical shots: a drunk caught in a revolving door; Miss Miller's stage father falling off a piano stool...
...dragged her out of that old life. Lolo's fiance appeals to her as Hans Grill ennobled. She does not believe with Hans that "no life, even the most ideal, is possible in which for some hours every day there is not a smell of potato-soup." A servant-girl's Utopia, that! Thus the love of wife and husband becomes a subtle struggle, noble v. peasant. When Hans drowns, she takes up with a dwarf of a man whose only attractions are his title, his philosophy, his offer to take her to some island made for dreaming...
...James M. Barrie's half-hour play made vocally effective by Ruth Chatterton. The Shopworn Angel: A chorus girl and a soldier, without a happy ending. The Wolf of Wall Street: Artificial but exciting melodrama of human stock and bondage. The Case of Lena-Smith: An Austrian servant-girl does not wince nor cry aloud. The Wind proves that Lillian Gish is still the best picture actress...