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...leading lady for whom many discerning persons can rouse little enthusiasm. Perhaps it is because she so often plays in poor pictures, this one for example. It is about an English girl who for convenience married an English peer, who finally won her love, honor, obedience. Elinor Glyn is the author...
...Only Thing. When Elinor Glyn rolls up her sleeves and goes at one of those mythical kingdom stories, you can pretty well figure out what is going to happen. The hero is going to save the Princess from marrying the nasty old king. There is going to be a revolution and ultimate happiness. And so it is. Eleanor Boardman and Conrad Nagel, plus the somehow inevitable fascination of this romantic pattern, make a pretty entertaining picture...
...your Aug. 24 issue, Forbes-Robertson's autobiography, Page 14, "is a snapshot album." Miss Harrington's Glorious Apollo, " a florid woman's Byron, contrived by a rather superior Elinor Glyn," and "only a patient reader will . . . win through, to the central piece of work that recommends" Miss Wilson's The Kenworthys. No other books are reviewed...
...public soon found it out. Her name was Fraud, Charlatanism, Trickery, Guile, Deceit. She, one Alma Sioux Scarberry, employee of the New York Daily Mirror (Hearst), had been "planted" to play her role as a publicity stunt. The Daily Mirror was about to publish a serial novel by Elinor Glyn relating the adventures of the vanished British woman, Miss Levy. Hence the carefully arranged passport pictures, the initials, the English money, in the fraud's vanity-case. Hence the dastardly clever reference to Elinor Glyn. Next day the Mirror publicly gloated over the success of its mountebankery...
...Miss Scarberry will tell readers of the Mirror today what her adventures were while she emulated the role of Miss Glyn's heroine and baffled doctors, policemen, and other newspaper reporters...