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SOONER OR LATER - Elinor Glyn - Macaulay...
...Victorian Age was a great believer in literary volcanoes. It preferred them extinct, but from the semi-active ones it got delightful tremors. To Victorians, Elinor Glyn might have seemed a volcano in full blast, but plain readers today will find it hard to believe that she was ever in a state of eruption. Famed as the popularizer of "It," she still enjoys a smoky reputation which is mostly smokescreen. Many a nonreader who smacks over the supposed lubricities of Three Weeks would find it tame and harmless stuff. Elinor Glyn was a scandalous sensation to 1907, but 1934 will...
...Miss Elinor Edson, as the prototype of Everyman's wife, gives an intelligent an extraordinary sensitive performance. She might also be termed beautiful...
Player Margaret LeeDoris Murial WilliamsPhilly Clara ButlerDora Elinor EdsonElderly Relative Mrs. William ArnoldSwell John CormwellLeonard Arthur SzathmaryPercy Robert McKeeLewis James W. TowerBernard Richard SullivanEgbert Paul KilliamAlbert Milton ByerHarold Whitney M. CookJohn Normand LloydDraper Thomas G. Ratcliff
...Elinor Norton is a poor little rich girl of the pre-War period. Her mother's plans for her do not include marriage to Carroll, summer neighbor who tells the story. Carroll is always in love with Elinor, but she is too much under her mother's thumb to feel affection for anybody. When her mother arranges a match with Socialite Lloyd Norton, it goes through as planned. Elinor and Carroll, moving in different social worlds, drift apart. After the War he meets her again, sees that her marriage is a failure. Lloyd has become an impotent neurotic...