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Nancy Hoyt, sister of Poetess Elinor Wylie, devotee of the Great God Mencken, is a worldly wise young lady adept at cynical, momentary elegance of thought and phrase. Her previous novel, Roundabout, was not "popular...
Alicia Patterson, 20-year-old daughter of Publisher-Editor Joseph Medill Patterson of the loud Chicago Tribune, louder New York Daily News and vulgar Liberty (weekly)*, is thought to favor her father. Her older sister, Elinor, took to the high art of drama when Producer Morris Gest found that she was ideal for the nun in his U. S. Miracle (TIME, Feb. 15, 1925). But journalism is good enough for Alicia Patterson. Some three months ago she undertook to gather pearls for the Daily News to cast before its million-odd readers...
Ritzy (Betty Bronson). Elinor Glyn, with whom the public mind associates The Philosophy of Love and the theory of IT,† here takes hold of an unusually refreshing bit of froth, only to flatten it with her usual pomposity. The heroine, a little Miss Main Street, is infatuated with the-idea of marrying a duke. Only after she has been taught the error of her snobbish ways and given an opportunity to register truly philosophic passion under half-closed eyelids, does she discover that her fiancé, Mr. Smith, is in reality the Duke of Westborough. Thereupon, morality...
...Tender Hour (Ben Lyon, Billie Dove). Those who have never seen Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks, or read Beverly of Graustark, or thrilled to The Rover Boys, or breathed the fragrance of a 5-&-10c perfume counter, may get a composite impression of all by contemplating this creation about a U. S. hero who fights off the Grand Duke Sergeivitch and all his villainous fellows in order that the creamy, soft heroine may snuggle under his bold wing...
...Corliss, Chairman, Miss Winifred Wrenn; T. F. Martin, Miss Elinor Roger; George Bennett, Miss Frances Kelly; Melvin Gerofski, Miss Dorothy Perry...