Word: doves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sensation Seekers (Billie Dove). This plot is from Ernest Pascal's Egypt. Billie Dove as Egypt Hagen, society type girl, smokes, drinks and goes bad with six times the diligence of any possible society girl, determined to go to hell just as fast as she can get there. Reverend Norman Lodge (Raymond Bloomer) sidetracks her into his parish house. Preacher Lodge is convincing and that is all which can be said for the picture...
...Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove...
...Haiti of the Colombian line neared St. Thomas harbor in the Virgin Islands, a dove, flying aimlessly far from land, alit on the deck. Wireless Operator William D. Collins occupied his idle hours cooing, chirruping, making enticing gestures with his fingers. The dove's hunger overcame its distrust when the man offered crumbs in his palm. The man, thinking the small creature loved him, felt benevolent, like...
When Sheik, the Haiti's white tomcat, saw the dove, it made him feel like a tomcat. He was not hungry, but only the tip of his tail was moving when he flattened himself for a precisely accurate spring. Knocking the feathers out of his whiskers, glancing around, he lifted the warm kill in his mouth. Its pretty head dragged stupidly as he picked his way to a cubby hole and hid it. Sheik licked a paw neat, stretched himself, stalked...
...Affair of the Follies (Billie Dove). The heroine, a beautous chorus girl, is subjected to the usual rigors of the chase-the stock broker (Lewis Stone), the poor but honest hero (Lloyd Hughes). She gives up her $150-a-week job to try living on the hero's $60, thereby makes the plutocrat dangerous, her husband mad. It ends according to the Will Hays standard, with wealth and happiness for the virtuous. The cast is engaging in spite of the scenario...