Word: fatherless
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...none too virile spouse. An unmarried sinner leaps out of a window when she learns that her seducer has been packed off by his family to South America. In contrast, the independent lady who insists on being called "Miss" has come to the ward to bear eugenic, fatherless progeny. Others are a lady murderess, a psychopath, an Italian woman, a mother of six-blessedly quiet and collected about the whole business-a malingerer who wants the relief of an abortion. The affairs of this gallery of victims to nature run into each other, bump, skip and leap across two hours...
...considered sensational for its courtroom scene. In a devious manner, with this scene as the climax, the heroine, a night-club hostess who sought reformation as a servant girl only to be betrayed by her boss's son, wins a husband for herself and gets possession of the fatherless baby by proving that she herself is the illegitimate daughter of the attorney defending the rich boy. Somehow a few moments of real dramatic power have been concocted out of this stuff and such moments are well utilized by Constance Bennett, who struggles through the rest of it as well...
...warrior father fare forth to battle, return victorious; fare forth again, return defeated; fare forth a third time to fetch Princess Guzisur, Temugin's 14-year-old affianced bride. On the journey the old man dies. The sworn marriage contract is broken, for of what use is fatherless Temugin as an ally? Ignoring the insult, an old minister of state tricks halfhearted vassal princes into allegiance to Temugin, and year after year the youth leads them into desultory warfare with faint glory and inconsiderable plunder...
Dearie (Irene Rich). The lengths to which the U. S. Mother will go in order to send a fatherless son through college are herein demonstrated by the heroine, who sacrifices herself as a night club entertainer. When the manchild, on vacation, discovers the Hot Momma's occupation, he excoriates, then shoots her-although the latter action is represented as accidental. Such violence leads to remorse and eventual reconciliation between widow and mite. The better element in the audience, however, is likely to remain rueful...
...Years ago, during the Russo-Japanese War, I had a most pleasant acquaintanceship with Baron Kentaro Kaneko, now a Marquis. I was able to be of service to him, and Mrs. MacVeagh was helpful in managing a pageant for the benefit of Japanese children made fatherless through...