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...Mulford live at Beaumont, Tex. Did Mr. love Mrs.? For years Mr. has been saying "yes." For years, Mrs. has continued to ask. On her birthdays she expected an answer, question or no question. Last July, on the anniversary of her nativity, Mr. was on the road. At Waxahatchie, Tex., he sent Mrs. a telegram stating he loved her, only her. Returning home he found her "cool, dejected, thoughtful and brooding, contrary to her usual sunny, cheerful, friendly and affectionate nature and disposition." One day he discovered that the Waxahatchie telegram had never been delivered. Blissfully reconciled...
RUNAWAY?Floyd Dell?Doran ($2). Michael Shenstone had a quarrel with respectability, and when for 13 years it had seared his wanderlustful soul, he bolted, leaving wife and child to Beaumont's communal pity. Seventeen years he spent raping the beautiful heads of Chinese idols and vagabonding in the Orient. At last he returned with a gay malacca stick, a piquant cloak and no repentance in his heart, only a desire to have a look at his daughter. In the end respectability made him hers through the romance of father love, and the accident of discovering a defaulter, which...
Engaged. Harry C. ("Bud") Fisher, famed comic artist of Mutt and Jeff; to La Comtesse Aedita de Beaumont, "winner of a Paris beauty contest...
Babbitt. The great American legion that calls George Follansbee Babbitt friend will hardly recognize his familiar figure as a skeleton, stripped of most of the flesh and blood wherewith Sinclair Lewis endowed him, strung about with a few chunks of cinematic laughter-bait, dangled rakishly by Director Beaumont inside the standard triangle frame. Corporeal flesh the producers could and did obtain, in the not unconvincing shape of fat Willard Louis, hitherto unknown. But of spiritual tegument the scenario had none. For obvious reasons, Tanis Judique, middle aged and harmless in the novel, was sent to the boudoir and brought...
British Action. At a Cabinet meeting in London, it was decided to cancel the Mission of Sir Thomas Beaumont Hohler, to hand over British interests to the care of the U. S., to recall Mr. Cummins. Following these acts, Premier MacDonald made a detailed statement on the situation in the House of Commons. Said...