Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Husband's Holiday" is a re-simmering of the free-soul theme in a middle-class milieu. Living in sin has seldom been more pedestrian. Miss Vivienne Osborne permits her husband, Mr. Clive Brook, to conduct his extra-martial affair with Miss Juliette Compton, knowing that he'll come home just as surely as Little Bo-Peep. There is little for the erring husband to choose between the two women, and Mr, Brook takes no great pleasure in either. Neither does the Playgoer. Best scene: Mr. Brook playing with the children's toy tracks...
Voters will be told that he is the very soul of courage and honesty?and that he cowers before the Tammany tiger. His friends will extol him as one of the most competent and successful administrators New York has ever had?and his critics will insist he has been only a poor imitation of Al Smith, the loose ends of whose vast
...Free Soul...
...plumbing fixtures of the middle ages. The radio and the movie have finished the levelling process of democracy. The human sea of derbied heads stretches out far into the middle west with no crown or crested helm to arrest the eye. Can all romance have gone forever? In his soul the Vagabond can not believe this. Somewhere under a $19.50, double-breasted, peaked-lapelled coat he knows that there beats a heart-of-gold ripe for adventure...
...moment and he will pardon them. If they seek not pardon it matters little, he will go on writing whether or no. He will continue to get times wrong, to get places mixed, to misspell the names of professors. Technicalities are not for the majestic corridors of his soul. Harvard was made for the Vagabond to do as he liked with, not the Vagabond for Harvard. If you gentlemen do not tread lightly likely as not he will pack up, and blaze a trail across the mountains to Beloit...