Word: heiresses
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...James players, courageously risking the inevitable comparisons with the original cast, make much of Vincent Lawrence's diverting comedy. The lines are just as funny as they were two months ago the situation just as amusing. Ann Gordon the young heiress with her varying moods and varying suitors playing at love and driving her lovers from ecstasy to despair to anger to anger and back again a dozen times is played by Miss Ann Mason. Miss Mason is not Lynn Fontaine, to be sure, and our praise of her might be much higher if the memory of her predecessor were...
...feat for its kind of journal, a feat that almost challenged William Randolph Hearst to equal it. Doubtless, the News chuckled. But last week the Hearst press began to laugh last and best. It began to publish serially: "HOW I WOOED AND WON THE $40,000,000 ROGERS HEIRESS" By Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten...
...little of it. "The mysterious Colonel Elston," as he is generally termed, because little is known of him. went to Russia in the 17th Century and gained the friendship and confidence of Peter the Great. Later General Felix Nicholaievitch Elston great-grandson of Colonel Elston, married the heiress of the last Count of Sumarokov and received permission from Tsar Nicholas I (1825-1855) to use the name of Sumarokov-Elston. It was their son who married Princess Yusupov, the sole heiress of the fabulously rich and eccentric Prince Nicholas Yusupov (grandfather...
...actors; it must be admitted that after the atmosphere is charged it would be hard to spoil the effect. All one has to do is to be frightened at the right places. Nevertheless, Miriam Doyle is pleasing as the courageous and attractive young heiress; and Walter Regan, who has a fairly difficult part as the wavering, somewhat ridiculous schoolboy lover of Miss West, and the official humorist, is one of the outstanding players. As Cousin Sue, who feels "in duty bound" to tell everything she knows in a rather disagreeable fashion, Florence Huntington is so convincing that one hesitates...
...this land with the fullest powers. His Excellency, the Chief Commander of the Italian Navy and Army, already has notified you of the object of this peaceful occupation. The customary routine of public and private life here will continue to proceed peacefully under the aegis of Italy, direct heiress of the great Latin civilizations, with only such limitations as may hereafter be imposed by circumstances. I have the utmost confidence that his order will be wisely observed by all, thus avoiding the necessity of using force...