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...whole world, practically, seems to be giving cocktail parties. . . . Mrs. Henry Field had on a fantastic and most becoming hat ... like a parasol with a gardenia under the brim. . . . Mother (Mrs. A. H. Granger) is sailing the end of May to spend the summer in and around Vienna. . . . I've been a little tired this week and the person who is to blame is Miss Margalo Gilmore, owing to the fact that she has so many friends here. We played the piano and sang and in no time it was much too late. . . . Like all my parties, everyone just...
Dean Academy; Sutliff, g.; Sansouci r.f.b.; Jones, l.f.b.; Lewis, r.h.b.; Randy, c.h.b.; Willoughby, l.h.b.; Rachdates, o.r.; Granger, i.r.; McKenna, c.f.; Serri, i.l.; James...
...Breadwinner relates the story of two English families, next door neighbors: the Battles and the Grangers. The two wives have nothing to worry their silly heads about. The four children talk a good deal about how "shy-making" are their parents' stodginess and lack of imagination. Charles Battle (A. E. Matthews) is a stockbroker in The City. Alfred Granger, a barrister, is a hearty, roast-beef-of-Old-England sort of fellow...
...discovers the young Battles and Grangers lamenting their families' dullness, proposing that people over 40 be painlessly put to death as useless and incompetent. A little later Father Granger arrives with the news that Father Battle has been victimized by a friend, is about to be "hammered" (lose his membership in the Exchange), has not been at his office all day. In the midst of the consternation which this arouses, Father Battle smilingly appears...
...Breadwinner is fairly civilized drawing room farce. But from this point on it develops third-act trouble. Father Battle's wife pleads with him. Mrs. Granger pretends she is in love with him, begs him to stay. Little Diana Granger wants to go away with him and be his mistress. At the final curtain, Father Battle just picks up his hat and walks off, as promised some 45 min. previously...