Word: fiancee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Story. At Danielstown, charming county seat near Cork, lived Sir Richard and Lady Naylor; lived also a niece, Lois, a nephew Lawrence, and many a lingering guest. At the moment it was the Montmorencys who lingered: she because of Danielstown itself-"doorways had framed a kind of expectancy of...
The Broadway Melody (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), is a tedious musical comedy embedded in a routine story like a fly in celluloid. Three theme songs, a tenor voice, tap-dancing, and a few memorable bodies, do little to justify the publicity bought for this picture before its openings everywhere, publicity of...
Philip Barry wrote Paris Bound, a light cocktail of adultery and wit; like that fine play, Holiday begins frivolously. The situation: a girl, Julia Seton, introduces to her glum father, her charming sister and her drunken brother, the clever, adventurous and successful young man whom she wishes to marry. In...
The Cyclone Lover. One is compelled to suppose that the U. S. embodiment of the ideal lover is a gawky youth, timid and smirking, fond of stupid jokes and possessed with a dreary talent for unnecessary heroics. Herein he makes his too-customary stage appearance. Tongue-tied and blushing, he...
The gauche little play needed no such apologetic introduction. In it was unfolded the story of a favorite daughter of Idaho, who, after attending an Eastern college, returned to the potato dad hills of her native state, followed by her fiance. Local entanglements of politics and domesticity prevented her immediate...