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...Wise Child. Many are the ways in which a girl can rid herself of a distasteful fiancé. One of the simpler and more startling expedients is to tell him that she is with child. Joyce Stanton (Mildred McCoy) makes this strategic confession to G. A. Appleby (Harlan Briggs). Of course it is untrue-she is inspired by the plight of the family's housemaid. Appleby is much older than she and, though he is the town's richest and noisiest citizen, his love-making under the trees is too unctuous for pretty, sensitive Joyce. Her falsehood also...
Anne Spencer Morrow, fiancée of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, poured tea, one afternoon last week at the U. S. Embassy in Mexico City, for Richard Barthelmess, cinemactor...
Dorothy Gish is cast in Young Love as a tempestuous and idealistic latter-day maiden striving to assure marital congeniality by pre-nuptial experiment. In the first few lines, she and her fiancé express satisfaction with last night's trial. To make it doubly sure, they exchange partners with their unconsulted host and hostess. Miss Gish completes an affair with host, but fiancé quails before hostess. Then follow two acts of confessions, recriminations, door-slammings, to end with four-way felicity the way it should be (according to the movies). Despite such items as "I love...
...universal respect for the play abroad contrasted with the reactions which it induced in Manhattan theatre-goers. Something was the matter with the performance; partly, it seemed, the acting, partly the direction. A French soldier returns home on leave; his fiancée, who has been living at his father's home, no longer loves the soldier but she conceals this fact until after she has spent the night with him. In the morning, the soldier's father berates his son for a seduction; whereat the soldier berates in his father selfish and truculent senescence which so blatantly...
Across to Singapore. Two seagoing sons of Jeremiah Shore of Paradise Cove, Mass., take a voyage to Singapore. One of them, ugly Mark (Ernest Torrence), becomes marooned with drink and Chinawomen, forgets his fiancée (Joan Crawford). The other son, handsome Joel (Ramon Novarro), is brought home in chains by the villainous members of the crew, who tell his father that he deserted Brother Mark. That is a lie. To vindicate himself, Brother Joel again sails to Singapore to fetch Brother Mark with the aid of Brother Mark's fiancée. After much skullduggery on land...