Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eugenie Leontovich in the part of a pseudo-Baroness is both vivacious and amusing. Moreover, when her real identity as a maid is discovered, she enters into the spirit of the rather vulgar domestic with equal zest. Reginald Owen as an authentic prince is thoroughly royal in the decadent sense of the word. He has his amours, his noblesse oblige, and a sense of humor that fits very well with the American conception of prince-lings on continuous leave. Alan Mowbray as Josef, the valet, is a thoroughly snobbish servant of the more malignant variety. The burden of the comedy...
...Satan in the Suburbs" by Mr. Donaldson just misses the trick. With a novel situation, that of a chance meeting of a student and the Devil in a suburban trolley, the author wanders off in a pother of pseudo-Socratic dialectic, savoring of Shaw's "Man and Superman", and getting nowhere at all. And the fatal mark of the amateur is too often evident--that of needless circumlocution...
...clumsy, ignorant, independent; he did not get along well. If he had not discovered an aptitude for boxing, he would probably have had a worse time. Graves has some harsh things to say about the English public schools. "For every one born homosexual there are at least ten permanent pseudo-homosexuals made by the public school system...