Word: temptresses
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Last week Salome was revived at the Met, with buxom Australian-born Marjorie Lawrence in the role of Strauss's necrophilic heroine. Soprano Lawrence, who had been coached by Japanese Dancer Nimura, peeled herself like a true Judean temptress, ended unabashed in nothing much but a black net. Solemn music critics agreed that Lawrence was both vocally and visually one of the most lavishly endowed of all Salomes...
...shanghaied in Edinburgh, kicked and cuffed as a cabin boy back and forth across the Atlantic. He survived, studied navigation, became a mate and did a little kicking and cuffing on his own, got mixed up with rebels in Genoa and, under the spell of a revolutionary temptress, ran arms for Naples until he learned that his captain had also been swayed by the same charmer and in the same fashion as himself. A captain at 21, he drove his Silver Racer on record runs to China, married a lovely, shrewd little French-Canadian girl, was not unfaithful...
...everything, but it's hard to got along without. His take is simple and though unevenly paced it has its moments. A quiet, solid little tourists home is thrown into an uproar of delicious confusion when the unexpected guest sweeps in the alluring form of Carole Arden, the luscious temptress of the silver screen. Miss Arden seems to be on a tour of personal appearances which has been interrupted by the breakdown of her ivory Issota...
...women make the home, and therefore women are the thing. It has many nice women in it the grandmother is gruff and self-centered but an fond she is really nice. The middle aged mothers are not pretty women nor clever but they are really nice women. The jaded temptress is flighty, miserably unsuccessful in her constant attempts to be amusing, gives the appearance of having dressed by standing under a tree which shed upon her various garments including the saddest sort of red wig but an fond she is really quite nice. To finish the summation, the youth...
...another, how he is made great against his own best efforts, and how, the truth at last being brought home to him, he returns to the woman he has left. Brian Aherne is fine throughout; Helen Hayes, tenderly sincere as the home body; Madge Evans adequate as the gilded temptress; the support excellent...