Word: brenda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cast of characters Alice Fordyce Alixe Walker Tom Hamilton James Vincent Lucy Duane Frances Allen Sillerton Jackson Ian Wolfe Jessie Lefferts Brenda Dahlen Mrs. Henry Van Der Luyden Isabel Irving Mrs. Manson Mingott Katherine Stewart Mr. Henry Van Den Luyden Frank Andrews Julius Beaufort Arnold Korff May Van Den Luyden Susan Blake Newland Archer John Marston Countess Olenska Katharine Cornell The Duke of St. Austrey Robert Hobbs Anastasia Giannina Gatti Stephen Letterblair Albert Tavernier Carlos Saramonte Edouard La Roche Jean Pierre Villon Newland Archer, Jr. Henry Richards...
...into intervention, thus establish law, order, prosperity for his Spread Eagle oil fields. By financing a professional revolutionary, Henderson buys a political crisis. But to make the U. S. public see red, something more personal than oil is needed. Luck has it that Henderson's daughter, Lois (Brenda Bond) introduces to her potent father one Charles Parkman, boy in search of a job, also son of a onetime president of the U. S. Casually remarks cryptic-tongued Joe Cobb (Osgood Perkins), "brains" of the Martin Henderson office: "If they ever shot President Parkman's son, it wouldn't take long...
...Brenda had told him at once about kissing Mattocks, in the drive by moonlight. It had given him a twinge but he had understood. Mattocks was a scrawny painter, his fingers jaundiced with cigarettes, his character by egoistic indulgence. Brenda, the sensitive, the humanitarian, had seen he had genius and got one of her "moments". The kiss was to exalt him above drugs and drink to set him to work. It was in no way a betrayal of her husband and children...
They had Mattocks down from town again at once. Tristram's reason: to rebuke village prurience. Brenda's reason: Mattocks still needed her. Result: Mattocks improved and the prurience intensified. He began a canvas of great promise and a village gossip sent Wing an anonymous note, worded in newspaper clippings, that mentioned "adultery", "abominable lover", "disgusting wickedness". Mattocks finished his canvas?Brenda translated into landscape, unquestionably a masterpiece; and village roughs smashed it, flinging him into a creek as revenge for a fictitious attempt upon a girl...
...Brenda was going to have another child. She could no longer bolster Mattocks with her spiritual strength. He must shift for himself. He did: shifted to town, curled up in despair and died. Brenda and her husband go out of the story drawn closer than ever through having had to examine their philosophies?Tristram's easy-going "all's-well-with-the-world," Brenda's aloof "live-and-let-live". In village and vicarage, where intolerant stupidity sprouts as prickly and impenetrable as a monkey-puzzle (cactus) tree, the blow-flies scavenge as of yore...