Word: sapphic
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...first. As with George, deception is the key to character. Childie belies her name-she has abandoned the illegitimate child she bore at 15 and is now herself a slow 32 years old. As for Mercy, she has no character at all; her external priggishness cloaks a savage Sapphic hunger. George is promptly cast out of the triangle and crawls, wounded, to obscurity. Her new job: the voice of a puppet called Clarabelle...
...Girl with the Golden Eyes. A young French director named Jean-Gabriel Albicocco has turned Balzac's dated daydream of Sapphic sensuality into an updated, unregenerate nightmare...
...Girl with the Golden Eyes. A young French director named Jean-Gabriel Albicocco has turned Balzac's dated daydream of Sapphic sensuality into an updated, unregenerate nightmare...
Club de Femmes (Jacques Deval), made in France, is a naive, sometimes sad, sometimes merry, typically Gallic approach to a theme similar to that of Maedchen in Uniform, Eight Girls in a Boat and other film treatments of repressed girlhood. Manhattan censors promptly spotted Sapphic overtones and more frankness than young girls ought,to show, ordered several cuts. Its U. S. sponsors, Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn, gloomily anticipated even severer censorship in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas...
Censors were troubled, too, over the activities of a procuress (Junie Astor) who conducts her activities from the switchboard of the club. They finally suffered her to remain, after carefully editing the careers of the two girls she ensnares. The Sapphic inferences were noted in the character played by beauteous Else Argall, Author Deval's wife and a newcomer to cinema. Censorship deleted her best scene, which shows her successfully fighting the urge to join the girl of her desire. Considered fit for Manhattan cinemagoers was the shot in which she poisons the procuress-telephone operator. Playwright-Director Deval...