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...touring car, containing W. L. Shaney, his wife Esther, and fouryear old daughter Alleen, running eastward along Memorial Drive, at 1.15 o'clock yesterday afternoon, suddenly, with no apparent cause, plunged into eight feet of water in the Charles River just west of Anderson Bridge. Only the top of the car was left in sight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOONDAY RESCUE SAVES THREE TRAPPED IN CAR | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

Love and Learn. Chilling, blonde, Esther Ralston maintains her clotheshorse position in the records of Paramount in this odd little piece wherein her efforts are aimed at the prevention of a parental separation. By plunging, in her straight eight, through the front of the police station, the young lady manages to get to jail, there overhears the details of a conspiracy to drag the young and charming judge who sentenced her into a badger-game.* She goes to his room, prevents compromise, reveals the plot, wins love. A divorce is prevented, her adventures having kept father and mother together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...treat in store which even the propinquity of a dreaded examination cannot, mitigate. Besides the great patriotic strain which runs throughout the plot, the vivid historical background, the nautical realism, there are five individual dramatic performances which transcend almost any recent histrionic portrayals of the cinema. Charles Farrell and Esther Ralston perform beautifully together; Wallace Beery and George Bancroft make the screen's best comic pair; and Johnny Walker as Decatur is a gallant and heroic figure. Of course, the "Constitution" has the lead and holds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. Miss Mary Belin du Pont, until a fortnight ago student nurse in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; daughter of Lammot du Pont, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; to Dr. James Morrison Faulkner, of Boston. The engagement of her sister, Miss Esther Driver du Pont, to Campbell Weir, of Wilmington, was recently announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 16, 1928 | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. Miss Esther Driver du Pont, daughter of Lammot du Pont, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (explosives, industrial chemicals, motors) of Wilmington; to one Campbell Weir of Wilmington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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