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...title down in large letters and ponder over it, you will probably ferret out the significance. It is a story of an English bachelor with a past. The past is about to become all there is of his bachelorhood. He is marrying a U. S. heiress on the morrow. Only he does not know she is an heiress and she does not know he is an earl. Neither does she know about a married woman in London and the daughter of the local innkeeper. Both these importunate females arrive on the scene in time to break the engagement late...
...crisp but unfound, came home from medical study to take care of his father. He thought he discovered his grip in Dorinda. For her, his charm, and love itself, were life's incredible increment. Wilting suddenly before old circumstances, Jason let himself be married to Geneva Ellwood, empty heiress. Out of this irresolution came, for Geneva, insanity and suicide; for him, drink, failure, consumption. Dorinda was first stunned by the blow, then slowly forged hard. She wandered in New York, fell (arbitrarily) into good hands, was disembarrassed of her child, went back to Pedlar's Mill with...
...MYSTERY OE THE SINGING WALLS? William Averill Stowell?Ap pleton ($2.00). A young engineer comes down from Alaska to marry an heiress. In Manhattan, going to me her guardian, the source of her wealth the engineer encounters him drugged and near death in his automobile before his house. Detectives are called. In their presence and that of his family the guardian, about to revive, is shot dead. No one sees the murderer. The search amid exciting intrigue continues all night in a house guarded by a cordon of detectives. Towards morning the murderer is discovered and the book ends...
...Romance. Constance Talmadge does not perform very often. It is just and eminently fitting that when she does she selects a good sustaining menu of amusement. Such a menu is the present film. It is all light food, thin and made for laughter. Arriving in England is an American heiress to $10,000,000. Starving in England at the same time is Lord Menford. To frighten off the wolf, Lord Menford sells to this heiress his estate, "catches a bun" the next night and is delivered to his ancient gates. Thereupon they are marooned together for two nights...
...opinion: SALLIE'S NEWSPAPER-Edwin Herbert Lewis-Hyman McGee ($2.00)- "I'd love to see everybody's name in the paper every day. . . . Suppose the telephone directory had a real news item after each name? Wouldn't that make a pretty good newspaper?" So Sallie, heiress, of a town near Chicago, directed a young, sensitive man to build the ideal newspaper. Love and Melodrama interferred. Eventually the young man went to the hospital and Sallie to Europe, but only after they had performed some experiments in journalistic honesty which deserve to become classic...