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Married. Ellis Williams, 72, boyhood chum of onetime British Premier David Lloyd George; to Mrs. Martha Smith, 79, sister of Mr. Williams' third wife; in Denver. Born in Wales, Mr. Williams loudly boasts that as a youth he once defeated Mr. Lloyd George at marbles...
...great steelmaker and foreign trader, could scarcely be spared from his duties. Mr. Morrow, lawyer and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., is more available. Everyone knows that U. S. Steel continues to be an Morgan industry. Mr. Morrow is the astute friend of presidents (he is almost the chum of President Coolidge, was his classmate at Amherst; also President Wilson trusted him). Mr. Miller, the onetime Governor of New York, might also slip into the Judge's place, indeed more conveniently than Mr. Morrow. He, since last October, has been the concern's general counsel, a director...
...support: at least seven times in the first act he is told that, you know, he is exactly like an oyster, and he speculates in an ingenious diversion of ways as to what happens to the oyster when it leaves its bed. He gets mixed up in his chum's love affairs, attempts suicide because he has been called a traitor and traitors should be shot, and variously displays the pellucid simplicity of his nature, like the dear old boy he is. Norman Fanchild plays the Oyster; and he does things to an impossible role. The comedy of the piece...
...watered it sufficiently to make it even thinner. It is an attempt to bring whimsy into the moving pictures. And Barrie alone can do that. Robert Cain, who acts the part of half villain, half friend of the family, or to be exact the hero's "battle field chum", does so with no apparent knowledge of the histrionic art. Frances Grant, the Mammy who tours around with Miss Mackaill as Miss Mackaill seeks her revenge, is a bit stifling after the first broad grin. The patrons of the Metropolitan might however disagree-at least they did one night this week...
...Unknown Chum...