Word: bride
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...door came Miss L. S. W. Perkins, who 30 years ago was 53, when she entertained "a little bride and groom." Last week Miss Perkins was so flustered at the bridegroom's return, that her physician expressed concern lest the excitement prove too great a strain on her 83-year-old constitution. When the onetime Premier approached, however, Miss Perkins rallied, greeted him warmly, pressed a dry kiss on Ishbel's wholesome cheek. Followed luncheon, newsgatherers excluded...
Married. Cyrus Hall McCormick, 67, Chairman of the International Harvester Co., brother and brother-in-law of Harold F. McCormick and Mme. Ganna Walska; to Alice M. Hoit, of Chicago; at Dublin, N. H., in the country home of the bride's niece...
White Gold (Jetta Goudal). Old Carson (George Nichols) owns a sheep ranch, these six months blistered by a relentless sun. With his son, Alec (Kenneth Thomson), he herds his woolly treasure on scorched hills. Into their baked monotony the son brings his bride, a young dancing girl of quick spirit (Jetta Goudal). The maddening sun drives them all to exasperation, so that when a tramp herder (George Bancroft), driven by hunger for the bride, forces his way into the room Alec left in a huff, tragedy stalks along with him. The film comes as near to genuine tragedy as anything...
...Night Bride (Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford). On her wedding night, her father locked her up in the ship's stateroom with the wrong man. Since he wanted to be absolutely certain of ridding himself of his expensive daughter, he refused to unlock the door till the night had passed and the ship had sailed far into the sea. The mistake turned out to be one of those fortunate coincidences in which the ideal mating is accomplished by farce. The film is not so fortunate. Seasickness is the big laugh...
...Demi-Bride (Norma Shearer). Criquette (Norma Shearer), convent-bred maid of Paris, glimpses one Phillippe (Lew Cody), making his ardent way to another woman's heart in the park nearby. This is the man for Criquette. Though he is her stepmother's lover, though he looks upon her as a creature of the nursery, she persists in wooing him. By inveigling, him into a compromising situation, she succeeds in forcing him to marry her. As she walks down the aisle of the church, the unhappy groom notices that his bride by compulsion is quite a beauty...