Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virtuous Sin (Paramount). A strange effort toward sophistication in the manner of Sardou, The Virtuous Sin falls between burlesque and melodrama. The plot, one of the silliest of dramatic stencils, concerns a Russian lady who saves her husband from a firing squad by making herself attractive to the General who has ordered his court-martial, only to find that she has fallen in love with the General. The General, acted as well as possible by Walter Huston, is known as "Iron Face." These are the sins of The Virtuous Sin; its single virtue is that it provides the first important...
Dancing Partner. The plot of Dancing Partner is the one in which a young and disillusioned rakehell wagers that he can avail himself of the favors of an allegedly virtuous maiden, then discovers that she is impregnable and falls in love with her. Shakespeare thought it such a good idea for a play that he used it in Cymbeline. Furbished up by Producer David Belasco, the play officially inaugurated the 1930-31 season and provided one interesting innovation: a seduction scene in an airplane, high above the clouds...
...Rascal. The spectacle of Mr. William Hodge in a bedroom farce will come as a great surprise to his enthusiastic admirers. Long have they been used to seeing him in dramas which rigidly observed, if indeed they did not extol, the principles of virtuous conduct. Now he appears as a chin-whiskered but frisky California lawyer who arrives in Manhattan bent on giving his wife grounds 'for divorce (among other things, she demolished his excellent wine cellar). His method involves a hotel room and a hired trollop, with whom he retires in full view of the audience. The farcical...
...they cried, but they got no help, and with a derisive toot the locomotive began to puff and chuff. Gretchen and the other young women waved goodbye, and the richly dressed old woman sprinkled eau de cologne on her handkerchief, dabbed her forehead. At Hamburg, like the watchful and virtuous chaperone of a bevy of schoolgirls, she shepherded her 15 charges aboard the spick-and-span steamer Eubee...
...would have to lay her cards on the table before Italy, for the simple reason that the conference procedure is alphabetical and F comes before I. When his turn came, Signer Grandi, already assured of parity with France, already aware of her maximum demands, would simply repeat with a virtuous air Signor Benito Mussolini's old saying, repeated at every conference for years, "Italy stands ready to reduce to any common minimum, even the lowest" (TIME, Jan. 27). Thus the blame for maintaining heavy armaments would be shifted neatly and wholly on to France...