Word: ouida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vivandiere, meaning a female brandy-selling camp-follower, is a word that has fallen into disuse since Blanche Bates played the part of one in the dramatized version of Ouida's novel Under Two Flags. Author Gaye's vivandiere "was born to the sound of a salvo of guns. She was weaned at three weeks and put on the bottle. Only it wasn't milk in the bottle, it was brandy! . . . The only powder she's ever had on her hair is gunpowder. She could walk at nine months, talk at a year...
...Jackie Coogan! If he doesn't look out this little millionaire will degenerate into America's smallest ham. Those who are now guiding his destinies are already filling him up with stagy tricks, turning him into the poor little rich boy. In his latest picture, made from Ouida's classic, A Dog of Flanders, Jackie does just what you might expect a small-time vaudevillian to do under given circumstances. There are many points of wistful appeal in the tale of the little Dutch orphan, persecuted by the narrow village as a tiny vagabond, who wins...
...Significance. A picturesque, rapid narrative, superbly adapted for spectacular filming, especially as regards the Argentinian episodes, where Ibanez, with his flair for local color, is rather better than when attempting to describe high society in the Ouida vein. A well constructed novel, whose catchy title should lure a large public?not one-tenth-of-one-percent. of durability in its fabric, but very saleable goods for the Autumn trade...
DESOLATE SPLENDOR?Michael Sadleir?Putnam ($2.00). Here is all the mechanism of a mid-Victorian thriller, set forth in a suavely rococo style, at times a trifle suggestive of Bulwer-Lytton?a Ouida plot elaborated with deliberate ornateness. The wicked Earl paints his eyelids. The innocent ward of a charming ex-roué, Charles Plethern, is nearly entrapped into an infamous bargain by Plethern's monstrous mother. The last, by the way, is an admirable character?a sleek, powerful woman who collects Rops etchings and erotic playing-cards and lives in a tower shudderously spoken of as the Devil's Candle...