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A Modern Virgin relates the story of a spoiled, candy-eating, dirty-book-reading girl of 16 whose fiance is in "the prime of life," that is to say, too old for her. As only he can, Playwright Elmer Blaney Harris (Young Sinners), who sets great store by his heroine...
Gytha Stourton, great-granddaughter of the 19th Baron Stourton and cousin of former British Ambassador Esme William Howard, First Baron Howard of Penrith, sailed to rejoin her fiance, Signer Fiorbanti del Agnese, onetime butler at the British Embassy in Washington. Last summer her father sternly and conclusively told London reporters...
The Prince's dogs outdo the Grand Duke's in the hunt. Enraged, that fine gentleman flicks an eye from one of his hounds with his whip and gets toweringly drunk after dinner. It is unpleasant to think of him as commander of all Russia's cavalry...
Joseph Striker and Minor Watson as two of the suitors give creditable performances, while Harlan Briggs as the rejected fiance, a local banker, is genuinely comic. Mildred McCoy as the prospective mother just fails to produce a characterization; but is at least that far ahead of the rest of the...
So desperate is the War Ministry that parents, wives, sweethearts of likely young men are being conducted on special tours through barracks. To these ladies "the advantages of a soldier's life" are explained. They are told that son, husband or fiance will have an equal vote with the...