Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Belle wastes ten years trying to win enough at the table to pay for her daughter's education. 1926 finds her at Monte Carlo and Lois a very entrancing young girl. "Count Feodor returns to see the daughter, a suit naturally not attractive to the mother. Luckily a young man from Grand Rapids Furniture, as he calls it, turns up to outrival the "homme du monde" and the story ends happily when Colonel Fleming, friend of the Grand Rapids youth, saves Belle from suicide and begs forgiveness for his prewar wrath...
Miss Anne Forrest, who plays Diane is as pathetic a golden haired girl who "hadn't been good" as ever walked the streets of Montmartre in an American play. For two fall acts she is tyrannized by the depraved sister, the ghastliest apparation that ever sipped absinthe for breakfast. Miss Grace Mencken, as the sister Nana, succeeded in raising the gooseflesh of horror on one member of the audience, at least, for the first time since the Phantom of the Opera was unmasked. As Chico, a handsome, Apache-like figure, turned atheist after burning candles and praying without avail...
...star plays a worthy young man who becomes a pirate to avenge his father, murdered by other pirates. Vanquishing the leader of the wicked crew, he assumes command and takes the next prize singlehanded. Thereon he finds a lovely girl (Billie Dove). Subsequently he humanizes the pirates...
...vagrant show troupe. There he finds his daughter, born 20 years before from a mother native of the village. The play then argues whether she shall stay among the whiskered rurals or set out on lifelong wanderings among the theatres. She does the latter. Ruth Nugent is this girl, pleasantly enough...
...operating table lay a little girl. One leg was shorter than the other. One hip was dislocated, had been so from her birth. The doctor was going to help her. He was going to make her like other little girls, whose rompings she had so envied. So she looked up at her benefactor, hopefully, trustfully...