Word: clare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfaithful to him and who finds solace in the love of a girl who has been planted in his house by a gang of crooks, is as complicated as it sounds, yet never quite silly and never vulgar. A drama of manner is intended. The dialog, written by Clare Kummer, is civilized. The settings are beautiful; the cast, bought from the legitimate theatre and including Marguerite Churchill and Kenneth MacKenna, takes pains with its material. The result is tedious because the medium is still too crude for the effect attempted. You sorely miss the old-fashioned bathos of those pictures...
...daughter was born to a man who later became Governor of Rome. At 16 she was described as "a beautiful young girl, high spirited, with the daring recklessness of a lad." She was called the Countess Annette Bentivoglio. At 26 she put away the world, entered the Poor Clare Convent in San Lorenzo. Thereafter she was known as "Mother Mary Magdalene." In time she journeyed to the U. S., founded a convent in Omaha, and one in Evansville...
...Legit." As to the legitimate stage, Mr. Fox has undoubtedly corralled a large number of its outstanding luminaries, including Actors Will Rogers, George Jessel, Clark and McCullough, Helen Chandler, and Authors Zoe Akins, Gilbert Emery, Cyril Hume, Owen Davis, George Middleton, Clare Kummer and many another. Prospective Fox talking features include Earl Derr Diggers' Behind That Curtain, Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's The Cock-Eyed World, Jerome K. Jerome's The Passing of the Third Floor Back, and the first of an annual revue series called Fox Movietone Follies...
Divorced. Clare Briggs of Manhattan, newspaper cartoonist (The Days o/ Real Sport, When a Feller Needs a Friend); by Mrs. Ruth Owen Briggs of New Rochelle, N.Y., on testimony that Cartoonist Briggs had been in residence with a pseudo Mrs. Briggs. The Briggses were married in 1900, have three children...
...Clare Leighton's own engravings have won flattering acceptance in Europe. They have been bought for the two national English collections, those of the British and South Kensington Museums, and also for the Swedish National Collection. In the United States her engravings have been purchased, among others, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Museum, and the New York Public Library. Miss Leighton has also contributed engravings to several magazines, and is now illustrating Thomas Hardy's "The Return of the Native...