Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...payment at this time of $3,880 "back pay" by a group of alumni satisfies the sense of duty of the contributors, who consider the whole affair a "blot on Harvard." It will doubtless also be welcome to the former employees...
Vinegar Tree. Laura Merrick (Mary Boland) had had an affair with some sort of artist in her youth, was titillated when, years later, she was to entertain in her home the one she believed to have been her lover for an afternoon-Max Lawrence (Warren William). Vinegar Tree then proceeds to unfold some uncommonly good comedy for three acts, during which the artist finds himself entangled by Miss Boland and her younger sister and her virginal daughter. After the younger sister and the artist have gone into the garden together in Act III and the daughter is safely...
...Affair of State. It seems that the Archduke and Archduchess had been unhappily married for ten years without issue. So the populace demanded an heir and the wily Prime Minister persuaded both rulers that he would provide the means, a captain who had three children. But the Archduchess falls in love with a lieutenant (the captain's three children had been got by the Archduke anyhow), so in the end everybody is made happy: the people, the Prime Minister, the Archduchess & lieutenant, the Archduke & captain's wife, the dowager duchess. The latter's part is played...
Morocco (Paramount). This is the most brilliantly acted and directed picture released since Pathe's Holiday. The story is nothing much?the French Foreign Legion as the background for the love affair of a private soldier and a vaudeville star who has seen better days?yet its often mechanical sequences are brought to life by Director Josef von Sternberg. Always aware that a moving picture ought to move, von Sternberg tells the story rapidly and often silently, so that Morocco has the effect of being a silent picture into which dialog has been woven, not the "incidental dialog...
...sets her cap at him, will not be happy till she gets him. In Paris she finally lands him, makes herself his mistress for two tempestuous days. Meanwhile Tycoon Savott has arranged a gigantic international hotel merger, wants Imperial Palace as its keystone, Evelyn as manager of the whole affair. Evelyn is tempted, finally succumbs, will be world's No. 1 hotel man. News of temperamental Grade's marriage to somebody else upsets him, but only temporarily : she would have been no wife but a career. Luckily he falls in love with his head housekeeper; she will do him proud...