Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sinners In Heaven. The capacity of the population for absorbing desert island stories is truly tremendous. There are probably a dozen a year; and each one set on the same founda tion. It is always a question whether or not the girl and the man should live together on the island. Sometimes they wait till they get home again. This time they did not. Back in England, the villagers were not so nice about it when the girl returned. Therefore, in the interests of general contentment, back came the hero, too, and married her. Those chiefly concerned are Bebe Daniels...
...sell them to the American public, however, remains to be seen. For this reason the terms of the loan are awaited with great interest. An attractive offering is generally anticipated. It is sometimes said of J. P. Morgan & Co., that if it should underwrite bonds in the Sahara Desert, investors would buy them. On the other hand, the house of Morgan gained the confidence of the investing public only by giving it sound and attractive offerings...
...Pan?The U. S. had come to believe this fantasy of J. M. Barrie the exclusive privilege of Maude Adams. Some months ago, Charles B. Dillingham went to London with the photographs of 20 actresses. Examining them all carefully, Mr. Barrie selected Marilynn Miller, musical comedy star. She will desert the musical stage to pick up the torch abandoned by Miss Adams...
...Primo's amnesty, asserted that. Primo needed amnesty, not he. "I cannot accept .the Spanish amnesty," he said, "but I can accept French hospitality. My banishment consisted of 'being thrown onto the island of Fuerteventura, which nature dropped into the ocean like a slice of the Sahara Desert. I lived for months on this arid island, many times suffering from thirst. I cannot return to Spain and retain my dignity...
...PARAMOR - Louis Joseph Vance- Dutton ($2.00). Turning his back on desert islands and the criminal underworld, Mr. Vance ventures into the more polite, if less exciting, realm of Society. The new atmosphere makes Mr. Vance a bit giddy. He teeters on his mental tiptoes, nervously juggling bright phrases, while he tells the simple tale of Nelly Wayne and her rather stupid husband, Pendleton. Nelly is a member of the "irritable race" -a writer. When Jill Wetherell, aging nymph, snares Pendleton in one of his "misunderstood" moments, Nelly vengefully becomes Mrs. Paramor. Ultimately, both Nelly and Pendleton revert to type...