Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which by no means had one servant. Others dug up the fact that there were less than 2,000,000 cooks and servants listed by the 1930 census. The Associated Press quoted Mrs. Wilbur Fribley of Chicago, president of the Housewives League of America: "Does the woman active in business or social service as a lawyer, doctor or artist, who employs a housekeeper, necessarily belong in the leisure class? Men who take that attitude (and most men do) date themselves as thinking of modern housekeeping in terms of the hoopskirt age. That's what Mr. Morgan is doing...
...Lady Consents" is a very weepy movie. The director had only one idea, and if your throat catches, you grasp that idea perfectly. The picture tells the story of "a modern woman who had the courage to send her husband into the arms of another woman to prove to him that it is she whom he loves." As always happens to lovers so fortunate as to be screen heroes and heroines, she gets him back in the end. But the heaviest spots are tastefully peppered with some really brilliant dialogue...
...Harding is not nearly so heroic as usually. Perhaps there is too much martyrdom in her characterization of Mrs. Talbot. But it is difficult to be ungenerously harsh on a really good, tear-jerking performance. Margaret Lindsay does so well as a cold, hard, feeling less woman that we are inclined to forgive her unfelicitous roles of the past. Thus "The Lady Consents" is an admirably cast melodrama of matrimony which you mustn't miss...
Patricia Ellis, for example, is not a wholly unattractive young woman. Her coiffure has been strangely mutilated, but her charms are not completely stifled thereby. If one's mood is unusually bland, he might possibly be amused by the antics of Frank McHugh. And the dance accompanying 'Collegiana," the main song, is weirder than truckin' and divertingly original. But the plot, adapted from a story by George Ade, is weaker than most in which Miss Ellis has appeared, and nobody in the show, least of all Miss Ellis, knows the rudiments of acting. Our parting advice is not to worry...
...other picture scarcely improves matters. It is called "My Marriage," and it deals with a proud society dame's being humbled by an innocent young lady and her chivalrous admirer. The last words before the final embrace are "Don't let an old woman's pride and stupidity keep you apart." They also struck us as the last straw