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...Vagabond can not frown upon this, but he can not wholly and openly condone it. The receptions are always bad. Everyone tells lies about the groom and trys furtively to take two pieces of wedding cake. And if one begins to kiss the bridesmaids, along about the third one he runs into an absolute dud whose smile would make a horse shy. This dud accounts for the endless conversations that one sees going on. The poor fool is trying to decide just what to do. And if one doesn't kiss the bridesmaids...
...very young and very rich characters do not suffer the stage's three-walled circumscription. Meighan does no sinning. He is an Adirondack guide entrusted with the job of making a man out of Hardie Albright and keeping him off liquor long enough to be a respectable groom for Dorothy Jordan. She is the poetic, crinoline type of heroine whom no one can associate with sinful doings. Meighan is all right in his role, though too often his lines are sappy. Most tiresome shot: Albright registering the fascination he finds in a Bourbon bottle...
...nuptials came not only Their Britannic Majesties, but also King Albert and Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians, she arriving by air from Brussels. Just four years after the smartest bride & groom in England left the altar of the Chapel Royal, he entered the House of Commons as a Laborite (i. e., a Socialist). Five years later she did the same (TIME...
...suit: An action brought by newlyweds who charged their broker (female) with "blackmail" because she tried to collect from the groom's parents her 211 mark...
...Grandmother!" they whooped and rushed into her arms. Thus did the President's grandchildren -Herbert III, 4; Peggy Anne, 5; Joan, 6 months - come to the White House for a long stay. A four-room nursery suite was ready for them on the top floor. ¶ A bride & groom were entertained at White House luncheon - Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays and the onetime Mrs. Jessie Herron Stutesman. ¶ Mrs. Henry Drought asked President Hoover to attend the sooth anniversary celebration of the construction of the Spanish Governor's Palace at San Antonio, Tex. next March. Another Texas caller...