Word: dudgeons
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...much against the wishes of Mrs. Holmes is established in the family. The son of the house Alf, deserting his former unprepossessing sweetheart, falls in love with Violet, and his marriage is supported by his father, the idealist. Mrs. Holmes, however walks out of the house in high dudgeon...
What redeeming features there are in the play appear in the really excellent work of Mrs. Ellspeth Dudgeon as the caustic, hard-headed, soft-hearted Mrs. Holmes, and the superb characterization of Violet Hunt by Miss Elsie Wagstaff, whose walk, voice, and manner give the very, spirit of the oldest profession. A word should also be said for Miss Doris Glaenzer, who was very entertaining as Alf's flat-footed first love. Mr. Clive, usually at home in any role, was not always quite convincing as a brother to all the world
Bernarr Macfadden publishes in his tabloid newspaper, the New York pornoGraphic, full, front page pictures of Rudolph Valentino's "ghost" in pajamas. He publishes composite faked pictures of old lechers, young miscegenators, alleged murderers, undressed girls. But Publisher Macfadden rises in dudgeon when similar liberties are taken with his own, more robust physique...
...renger who resigned last week as French Ambassador to the U. S. M. Bérenger whose "businesslike" personality impressed Secretary Mellon most favorably and went a long way toward making possible the Fran-co-U. S. debt agreement which they mutually negotiated (TIME, May 10) was in high dudgeon on the occasion of his resignation last week because Premier Poincaré appears to have abandoned all immediate intention of trying to get the Mellon-Bérenger agreement ratified by France...
...Standing is blessed with the role of a vivacious young thing who plays around the stage with all kinds of nods, becks, and wreathed smiles; and when Miss Standing is called upon to frolic, her admirers must either stay away or keep looking steadfastly elsewhere. Mr. Mowbray and Miss Dudgeon and Miss Ediss also ran: the sogginess of the track was too much for everybody...