Word: spinsterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principal character is a Miss Shoe, a birdlike spinster with insatiable appetite for gossip and detective work. For this part Jean Cadell, who played it first in London, was imported. She gave a fluttery, decisive and yet half frightened impersonation, which promptly included itself in the half dozen examples of the season's finest acting. Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne, as the fugitive couple, assisted with their usual eventful excellence...
Instead of a boarding house the author has selected a summer-resort hotel as the background of his philosophy. Again he features a nosey, flighty spinster. This one is particularly interested in males, especially males in whom other females are interested. Opposed to her in the play's development is a sensible artists' model, possessing a maximum of feminine charm and amiability. This part is most agreeably played by Joan Maclean...
...play in which David Belasco presented Frances Starr was the basis for this film play. The interest is shifted to focus on the leading man capably played by Richard Barthlemess. He is a member of the U. S. Navy who makes the acquaintance, one day on leave, of a spinster seamstress. She falls in love with him. He promises to come back to her and eventually does. The U. S. Navy in person assisted in the filming of many scenes. "Cripes" and "spigotty" are givtn as U. S. sailor talk. The net entertainment profit is very...
...selfish reaction to this jog. Thunderheads follow clouds, each basker lying to himself about his selfish reaction. A storm bursts, with rumblings of anger, shaft of malice, gales of recrimination, deluges of tears. The sun reappears when, for a motive of her own, a delicious minor character-the spinster sister of the durable male friend -shoehorns some one else into the host's desirable London position. As basking is resumed, it is observed that "every quarrel, however trivial, contains all the quarrels that are older than the hills...
...spite of the well-intentioned efforts of the New York Times, however, one suspects that militant feminists will not rush to demand the degree of Spinster of arts. The Bachelor label is of approved standing, and conveys definite significance. Without it, how could women ever be sure that they had been really educated? Even with this label, some of them must have their doubts...