Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture is nicely constructed and told with some good shots of a Hollywood studio?the only ones that have come along for quite a while. When the actor is found dead on Stage Ten you stay to find out who killed him? his wife, his director, the nightwatchman's daughter, or her brother, or the nightwatchman, or the fellow who is in love with her. You guess all the time that the director did it, so you are disappointed to find in the end that you were right. The comedy supplied by Neil Hamilton is supposed to open windows...
William A. Grew is the playwright who prepared this gallimaufry of old notions. The ancient, familiar ingredients are many in number, confused in arrangement. The Girard family wants to marry Daughter Geraldine to her diamond-studded admirer, Mark Chandler. He happens to be the boss of both Father Girard and of William Wells, a callow underling whom Daughter Geraldine really loves. If Daughter Geraldine marries the importunate Chandler, it will mean limousines and regal delicacies for all. But if she marries the struggling Wells, according to her ambitious mother and young sister, the frustrate Chandler will immediately oust his successful...
Married. Charles Jacob Young, son of Owen D. Young, chairman of the late successful Reparations Conference in Paris (see p. 14); and Esther Marie Christensen, Cleveland Junior Leaguer, daughter of Niels Anthon Christensen, Danish vice-consul and airbrake inventor; in Cleveland...
Sued for Divorce. D'Orsay Palmer, 24, grandson of the late Potter Palmer, Chicago hotelman (Palmer House); by Eleanor Goldsmith Palmer, daughter of a Sarasota, Fla.. truck driver, whom he married in Florida last year; in Paris. At the time of the wedding, 67 telegrams to county judges failed to halt the ceremony...
...Sardis, Miss., in 1921, 500 men and women collected a mass of leaves. To a log in the middle, they fastened Henry Lowry. When his feet began to roast they brought his wife and small daughter to see how Lowry strained to swallow hot ashes...