Word: susane
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...color and perfume of flowers was real again-Maine's goldenrod, Wisconsin's black-eyed Susan, New Mexico's Indian paintbrush. Suddenly there was nothing outlandish in the thud of a punted football, the rhythm of a dance band, the bright expensive look of department-store windows, and the solid, unshattered buildings. Across the land last week it was hot, and once more the U.S. people could listen with contentment to that most peaceful of all evening music-the tinkling of the lawn sprinklers, turning drowsily in the darkness...
...wide mouth, an upturned nose and large, haunting eyes - a goblin face. Her sister Lavinia was a village spinster, in her later years became cross, sharp-tongued, quarrelsome and grasping, with long black hair, broken, irregular teeth (mostly false) and dirty hands and fingernails. Their brother Austin married Susan, their school girl friend, a tavernkeeper's daughter. Susan soon became involved in a lifelong feud with sister-in-law Lavinia...
...Affairs of Susan (Paramount) is Joan Fontaine's first fling at comic prettiness and vivacity in modern dress. Though it seems much longer, it lasts only an hour and 50 minutes...
...story: Walter Abel, a little bewildered by his fiancee Susan, assembles her former husband (George Brent) and a couple of other major influences on her career (Don de Fore and Dennis O'Keefe), in order to learn what is in store for him. In three long flashbacks they volubly oblige him, detailing her progress from innocent New England country girl to actress to burlesqued bluestocking to her present daftly sophisticated self...
...everything decency will permit, from pants to armor. Men who wander in by mistake may stay to enjoy the scenery (Miss Fontaine), but they are likely to feel that Paramount has been a trifle overgenerous with everything except what it takes to make an entertaining movie. The Affairs of Susan is one for the women...