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...play relates the difficulties of a rich loafer named Perry Morrison who gets drunk and runs off with his friend's fiancée, also drunk. Thereafter the hero is dogged until the final curtain by newspaper reporters, the girl's large father from the Texas badlands and alcoholic amnesia. Included in the proceedings is an inebriated Justice of the Peace (Hugh Cameron) whose lampoon of a toper is as amusing as Robert Middlemass' broad portrayal of the sturdy Western parent. At one point, when Mr. Middlemass has particularly good cause to suspect his daughter of impure...
...brassiere). Too free play has been given to the famed Swansonian mannerisms, goo goo eyeing and curling her upper lip to show off her teeth. Best shot: the fadeout, with Miss Swanson dreaming blissfully in the arms of a ship's officer whom she has mistaken for her fianc...
...late Missionary Robert Semple; and William Bradley Smyth, 23, purser of the S. S. President Wilson; in Singapore. Purser Smyth met Evangelist McPherson and her daughter at the beginning of their world tour (Jan. 20), was instructed to give them "special attention." He became Miss Semple's fiancé in Shanghai (Feb. 16). "It is a pure love match," said Evangelist McPherson, "I give it my blessing." Said Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, grandmother of the bride: "I got married when I was 15. Sister [Mrs. McPherson] went to the altar when she was 17, so Roberta, being 19, waited much...
Although she has a fiancé at home, Kit develops and exhibits the same we-only-live-once attitude toward morality that was brought forth in War Birds, subsequently in many a cinema. On a short leave she meets Captain Hilder (Warren Williams), who, like "Uncle" in Journey's End, has spent a quiet holiday in building a rock garden at his country home. Seemingly out of a sense of duty, Kit spends the night with him. After her friend is killed, Kit leaves the ambulances, returns home where she runs into Captain Hilder again, falls in love with...
...infatuation increases in direct ratio to her boredom until one night when he finds her with one of her other friends he goes temporarily crazy and strangles her. The irony of this denouement is softened by having the woman recover, the young lover turn back to his former fiancée and the career he had forgotten, but in spite of its compromises The Careless Age remains a better picture than most. Best shot: nerve-treatment in a hotel...