Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woman of Euripides Holst...
...entire population seemed to be in the narrow streets either promenading, nursing their babies or washing clothes. I went up to the first old man I saw whose nose seemed sufficiently Grecian and tried to say a few words, but with no success. Then I approached a woman drawing water from the well, but here intuition must have given different information from what I asked for, because she called what I think was her husband, and not even my American pasport seemed to quiet his fury...
...good program, for it is not, but as a case example in the progress of American movie subject matter. Along with a rather mediocre comedy, "We're On the Jury" (Victor Moore and Belen Broderick) and a first-rate "March of Time", there is "John Meado's Woman", with Edward Arnold and Francis Larrimore. It is this picture which is the case...
...scenes of drama, some (in this case good) comedy, and so on, to the final reconciliation. Francis Larrimore would be given her chance to show herself in her debut, and all would be quite regular, and very, very plain. As a matter of fact, "John Meade's Woman" does end with the necessary reconciliation, but not before many quite irregular things have happened...
...tentative, confused and utterly inconclusive; the producers merely give you the works, and let it go at that. There are some good shots, some good speeches, some feeling of social movement, but on the whole, the reflection is blurred. This, however, is not the point; "John Meade's Woman" is not a good picture in itself, but it does show the beginning of an awareness for a new type of material, and as such it is an omen...