Word: simonetta
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Lionel Barrymore portrays the clown who could stir the stream of life with rippling laughter for everyone except himself. Mr. Barrymore's recently acquired wife, Irene Fenwick, is Simonetta, the divinity whose love for someone else prompts him to end his life with the greatest gesture of grotesquery?suicide. Ian Keith plays the "someone else" and does it with a fine fervor and distinction...
...Simonetta is the specific for them both. In the second act she succumbs to Luigi's importunities. The third discloses Tito surrounding himself with mirrors, defying the clown to make the clown laugh. As he pricks his heart a group of children passing the window interpret the action as comic pantomime and stand, laughing, at the window while the curtain falls...
...moment of the play?by Maurice Hewlett's Quatrocentisteria, out of a legend of Botticelli?is when the beautiful Simonetta, offering to pose for the painter, comes to his studio, clad only in a cloak. Flinging the cloak from her she reveals herself to him, clothed only in a high-backed chair. Forgetting his love for her in his artistic enthusiasm for her beauty, Botticelli leaps to the canvas and starts violently sketching. It appears, however, that as a matter of fact Simonetta is not concerned so much with passing her beauty on to posterity. Her wants are far more...