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...greatly amused at Hester May Root's twoddle anent John Coolidge in TIME, April...
...Bound. Nance O'Neil was last week seen sobbing her way through gloomy Fog-Bound, a piece of Long Island coast drama by Hugh Stange. The plot is: 1) Hester tells mother that she wants to marry Lem Ross instead of Capt. Ezra Tuttle because she loves Lem but not Ezra. Mother faints. 2) Hester marries Ezra. He is cruel. 3) Eighteen years later Lem returns, wants Hester to run away and live in sin. She refuses on account of daughter born between scenes. Lugubrious Fog-Bound is lightened by Miss O'Neil's portrayal of Hester...
...HESTER MARY ROOT...
What is lacking in episode is made up in anecdote: Grandfather McGehee's second wedding, to which the bride never came for a reason which he long disdained to reveal; Cousins Hester and Micajah McGehee, who stuck a pin in their candle to show whose turn it was to talk; the first Communion of Uncle George's black man, Solomon, who reported that the parson had given him the cup with the words: "Pass de goblet an' say, 'Brethren, jink...
...Scarlet Letter (Lillian Gish). This latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release preserves in spirit, mood, sequence, the true proportions of Hawthorne's novel. Praise for a picture can mount no higher. Hester Prynne and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale break the seventh commandment. The heavy rod of seventeenth century New England righteousness falls upon them both -upon Hester socially, upon Dimmesdale spiritually. In spite of numerous opportunities for sentimental errata, the film records truly, as the novelist saw, the inevitably tragic and ennobling consequences of their suffering. One might wish that the bravery and sacrifice of the Puritan community had been represented...