Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geoffrey Whitney Lewis, of Brookline...
...plot is in the same pattern as Madame X and Madelon Claudet. Prom- ising an estranged husband (Geoffrey Kerr) to support a fortuitous rumor that she is dead. Miss Chatterton disappears into the Parisian demimonde. Years later she threatens to reveal that she is still alive and resentful when he refuses to let their grown-up daughter marry. Cinemas in which the climax arrives only with the maturity of the heroine's offspring are likely to be long drawn out. This one, though Ruth Chatterton acts well and ably affects a Russian accent, seems as long as two ordinary cinemas...
...ability of either actors or author; Miss Rachel Crothers does not show her hand until the second act. There have been innumerable drunk scenes paraded before the long-suffering theatre-goer, but their authors have rarely succeeded in the measure with which Miss Crothers does in this particular bit. Geoffrey Wardwell and Jay Fassett contribute remarkable performances as their share in this scene, and the author supplied them with excellent material, studded with laugh producing lines...
Georgie's last adolescent shock was when her father died and she found among his papers contraceptive devices that were Greek to her, pornographic postcards that were not. When Geoffrey wrote her a brotherly letter of farewell Georgie's big nose got redder; she settled down hopelessly to be a village old maid...
Author Aldington has done his job up brown: by the time he gets through with his characters there is not a single one you can stomach. Georgie is pathetic but repulsive; Purfleet is a cad; Geoffrey a fool; all the rest run the gamut of knavery and oafishness. In a supererogatory epilog Aldington underlines his tale: England is on the downgrade, nothing can help her. the War killed off the best, delivered the rest into the strangling clutch of "human weeds...