Word: wenching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saint Wench (by John Colton; Helen Menken, producer). Playwright John Colton is the man who wrote The Shanghai Gesture, co-dramatized a William Somerset Maugham story into Rain. Helen Menken of the thin face and beech-leaf hair accomplished emotional successes in Seventh Heaven, The Infinite Shoeblack, The Captive. It is to be recorded with reluctance that Mr. Colton's Saint Wench, acted in and managed by Miss Menken, is an unconscionable bore, a pitiably uninspired piece of stagecraft...
Scene is the blasted heath of Phillpotts' beloved Dartmoor. Lady Macbeth is Avis Ullathorne, a strapping country wench with a shrewd mind, nerves of steel. Macbeth is Peter Bryden, a fine upstanding man to look at but with a fatal flaw in him called conscience. Duncan is his older brother, owner of North Wood Farm and affianced to Avis. When Scotland Yard's Detective Midwinter arrives on the scene the murder has been done, the corpse hidden, all clues covered. Midwinter rightly suspects Peter and Avis but can find no evidence. Instead he sets traps. Burly Peter might...
...story rambles about in the noisy manner of such carnival anecdotes. The spieler blackmails a producer (Frank Morgan), puts a lion in the cooch dancer's hotel room. Ballyhooed into being a musical comedy star, she goes back to cooch dancing when the spieler publicizes another carnival wench in connection with a nudist colony. Possibly because preview audiences were so enthusiastic about The Half Naked Truth, RKO last fortnight ceased bickering with Cinemactor Tracy about his salary, which was withheld when he frequently failed to appear on the set. Terms of the agreement: $1,750, half of the salary...
...some time later, where the girl turns out to be the daughter of Lord Cairnsmuir and the man no mere mariner but the owner of a yacht. Not realizing these facts, the be castled father (acted by Clive) goes forward with plans to find in the town a suitable wench to act as co-respondent in the promised divorce suit. From this last bit of embarrassment is derived the principle humor of the play, with its culminating bedroom scene...
...audience to hear the first metaphor. The poet was not so prosaic as to say, "like a blushing rose." He stated out and out that a rose entered his room. Somehow that has more meaning for the imagination than to say that a girl, a lady, a woman, a wench, a female, entered his room; and it is that sense of revelation, of outer nonsense and inner significance, that gives more power to the metaphor and likewise to any painting by Max Ernest or Salvador Dali...