Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speakeasy. The frantic urge to tell of horrors in drink dens of Manhattan has infected no less a dramatist than Edward Knoblock. Mr. Knoblock has to his credit such dramas as Milestones, with Arnold Bennett as coauthor, Kismet, Marie-Odile. Not so decidedly to his credit is this new play...
Creoles is a well-dressed romance of New Orleans in 1850. There is a convent maid who tries to seduce a handsome pirate. By this stratagem she plans to evade a villianous, worm-eaten roue who, in the manner of those times, is on the point of buying her outright...
And what type of man would most attract such a young woman (remember, she is earnest, honest)? Well, how about a mature, reticent, adventure-scarred world traveler. He should be enormously courageous, enormously patriotic; should have passed through incredible (almost) adventures and come out enormously modest?and of course unmarried...
An unseen multitude surrounds Dr. Barclay approaching Point Sur?his disciples; minds at any distance aware of his power. The women at Point Sur,?even Maruca, the squat half-breed whom he uses as deliverance from a 15-year chastity?vaguely understand his announcements: "God thinks through action .... Nothing...
Alias the Deacon (Jean Hersholt). As in the play of the same name, the hero's occupation is fleecing the wicked rich to invest the righteous poor. An angel-faced cardsharp, he blandly deals his opponents four nines, a flush, a straight, a full house, only to stagger the...