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...alumni at Wisconsin, she took the hard way to learn to face the footlights. Her teaching days and M.A. didn't help when she was batted about in Pacific Coast stock. Star in Pirandello and Shaw plays at Wisconsin, Kathleen toured the U. S. as the heroine in The Drunkard, playing in hotels as well as theaters. She trimmed her figure for pictures, only to get a "bit" no one noticed. She had the lead in Three Men on a Horse when the leading lady was on vacation. After that period of glory, she went on tour with Boy Meets...
Comedy of a different sort is supplied by John Barrymore, who walks off with acting honors in a fine portrayal of a half-witted drunkard who forgets his sorrows by drinking and gloating over the misfortunes of others. Mr. Barrymore brings to the part, which has little to do with the plot, a pathos reminiscent of Chaplin. Fred MacMurray plays a minor part as Miss Lombard's too-honest husband. Instead of acting together as in the past, Mr. MacMurray is subordinated to the heroine's personality, but the result is far from disastrous...
...chose over Herndon's materials as he saw fit; the publishers revised the manuscript, and 70-year-old Herndon got only $300 for his share of the work and for his collection of Lincoln documents that afterwards sold for more than $300,000. Slandered as an atheist, a drunkard, a scandalmonger, a drug addict, Herndon died in 1891, his great monument to his hero disfigured, unpopular, neglected to this...
...McGillicuddy, of Brighton, said by Yard police to be an habitual drunkard, was arrested late yesterday afternoon in Little Hall...
...reformation by walking out on her their wedding night. His idea is to show his new strength of character by purposely disillusioning the romantically inclined Miss De Havilland. In the course of the proceedings, Mr. Howard successively insults her family, makes biting remarks about her moles, acts as a drunkard, but all to no avail. Miss De Havilland is exceedingly difficult to disillusion...