Word: heman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Francis X. Bushman, 40, cinema heman, by Beverley Bayne, cinema actress; in Los Angeles. She charged desertion...
...seems that Rita had been rather rough in her treatment of Heman Haggerty, for whom, by the way, matters are further complicated by the presence of a wife in an insane asylum. Though he will not divorce the companion of his early struggles, nevertheless he loves Rita and has hit upon a novel way of bringing her to her knees. It turns out to be Haggerty who engineered the corner in the stock market which is threatening to ruin her father. Since Haggerty is the only one who can save the old man, Rita sends for him and informs...
...this juncture Haggerty exhibits a degree of imagination for which one would not have given him credit. Being a heman, he has a revolver on his hip. So he proposes that a shot be fired, and Rita, dreading a tragedy, will thereupon rush into the room calling out the name of the man she really loves. The shot is fired-just at the end of a chapter. Rita rushes into the room, calling Haggerty's name hysterically. Still, one cannot help but wonder what would have happened if she had yelled, instead: "Who's hurt...