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...Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. to be Chairman of the Executive Committee of Southern Pacific. Railroader Holden has won bright fame as chief lieutenant of astute Arthur Curtiss James, railroad capitalist and yachtsman. In the shift of Southern Pacific executives, railroaders guessed that Mr. James was weaving an "integration" (merger is forbidden by law) of western roads with a mileage of 38,500. He owns vast amounts of stock in Great Northern; Northern Pacific; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Southern Pacific, Denver & Salt Lake; Western Pacific; Denver & Rio Grande Western. But first step in the "integration" must be consolidation of his Great Northern...
...Forbidden Hours. In a land somewhere in the Balkans perhaps, King Michael IV (Ramon Novarro) loves a prime minister's niece (Renee Adoree). He is such a good king and his love is so sincere that the people accept the girl as their queen. It might make a willy-nilly musical comedy...
Naomi and Joe are forbidden to "keep company," but they meet by the starbright brook, and plan to marry when the hay is in. Not till weeks after Joe has been killed horribly in an accident, does Naomi realize to her joy that he lives on in the child she bears. But her joyless parents, stiff-necked with the sour self-righteous Protestantism of the '80s, snatch up the offer of "noble" Caleb to take Naomi and give her bastard a name. Naomi suffers untold husbandly violations from Caleb, but comforts herself that some day she will tell Brook...
...does so at an inopportune moment. Brook has been forbidden by Caleb to dance and love Tony, foreigner, Catholic. But Naomi, frantic lest Brook miss the great love she herself had known so fleetingly, tells Brook why she need not obey her "father." In a frenzy of dutiful adolescent loyalty to this man who had treated her as his own, Brook escaped from Tony to Constantinople with a missionary friend of Caleb, and not till years later did she realize what her mother had wished for her. For luckily an English husband rescued her from the missionaries, and later...
...forbidden to enter the temple in decollete, sleeveless or transparent gowns...