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...after waiting two years for Clem Spender, her true love, to return to her, Delia Lowell marries one of the wealthy merchant Ralstons. Six years later her cousin Charlotte comes to her asking for help. Charlotte is about to marry the other Ralston, but on the verge of the wedding learns that her finance will force her to give up the day nursery which she has been running as a pretext to allow her to care for Tina, the child which she has secretly borne to Clem Spender. Delia helps her by offering to suport her and the child...
Charlotte (Helen Menken) and Delia Lovell (Judith Anderson) are cousins whose bodices and bustles are right out of Godey's Lady's Book. But beneath their modish taffetas each is dressed in an emotional hair shirt. Both Helen Menken, whose make-up has become more & more white and tragic since her girlish theatrical holiday in Seventh Heaven 13 years ago, and Judith Anderson, a sultry lady with an odd smirk at the corners of her mouth, are past mistresses at handling a heavily dramatic situation. They are both quite at home in The Old Maid, for that opus...
Director Guthrie McClintic deserves high praise for the splendid culminating scene between the cousins. The daughter, who believes her mother is merely an old maiden cousin and whose real attachment is to Delia, is about to marry. For the first time in the long jealous warfare between them. Delia relents, makes the daughter promise to save her last farewell kiss, before she goes on her honeymoon, for Charlotte...
Disgusted with London, even amid its present brilliant boom, were two U. S. showgirls who returned from swank Dorchester House last week on the French liner Lafayette. "You fall over dukes and princes at Dorchester House," admitted Blonde Bonnie Clare. "The real trouble is," explained Brunette Delia Carroll, "that the ones who are in earnest have no money at all and the rich ones are triflers. A really fine man asked me to wait while he went out to India for three years...
Married, Stephen Henry Horgan, 80, inventor of the halftone process of reproducing photographs; and Miss Delia Van Houten, 74; in Nyack, N. Y. Mr. Horgan made his first newspaper halftone, a picture of Manhattan, for the defunct Daily Graphic in 1880. In 1924 he was the first man to telegraph a color photograph, a three-color portrait of Rudolph Valentino...