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...difficulties of a rich loafer named Perry Morrison who gets drunk and runs off with his friend's fiancée, also drunk. Thereafter the hero is dogged until the final curtain by newspaper reporters, the girl's large father from the Texas badlands and alcoholic amnesia. Included in the proceedings is an inebriated Justice of the Peace (Hugh Cameron) whose lampoon of a toper is as amusing as Robert Middlemass' broad portrayal of the sturdy Western parent. At one point, when Mr. Middlemass has particularly good cause to suspect his daughter of impure conduct, he pulls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 15, 1931 | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

...bachelor whose inheritance of a fortune depends upon his marriage before a stipulated date. He is given a sleeping potion, and when he regains his senses an attempt is made to persuade him that he has espoused a local debutante. Later it develops that. while suffering from amnesia in Philadelphia, he has already taken a wife. The various states of unconsciousness and semiconsciousness experienced by the hero of the entertainment are shared, unfortunately, by his audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 31, 1930 | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...Chicopee, Mass.. H. William Lord, 56, suddenly awakened from an amnesia which had made him for four years unable to tell what was going on, found he had grown a long beard. When told about Hoover, Lindbergh, the Philadelphia "Athletics," and new size paper currency, H. William Lord expressed surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Progress | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...Matrimonial Bed. French farce is either very funny or, much oftener, practically fatal. Falling firmly into the latter class, this one deals with a wife twice married. The earlier husband, lost in amnesia, returns; remembers; stages an undressing race with his rival to see who can jump first into the ample piece of furniture cast for the title role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...erring youths and indiscriminate cinemagoers. It tells about the scion of a wealthy family who allowed himself to get into an automobile wreck with the wrong girl, thus precipitating a scandal that killed his invalid mother. Father banishes Son; grimly the gates close behind his homelife. War . . . shell shock... amnesia. The boy returns, having lost trace of his family, his past, his own name. The heroine marries him anyhow. One day he wanders into his mother's bedroom to weep on her pillow. Father sees Son; tenderly the gates open again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jun. 13, 1927 | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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