Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other laughing matters: THE BABY CYCLONE; PARIS BOUND; THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY; THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND...
...Third Act. Sam's mother, after the wedding, tells her that congenital insanity in the Evans family forbids her having babies. Already pregnant, loving her coming child and her husband through him, Nina is nearly destroyed. She consents to an abortion...
...Fourth Act. Husband Sam, ignorant of the family taint or Nina's operation, haunted with the fear that he is sterile, is losing his grip on life...
...Queen's Husband. As diarist of an unidentified king, discovered last week acting oddly upon the stage of a Manhattan theatre, Robert Emmet Sherwood develops ramifications. He sets up a satire on royalty, gilds it with hot romance and stripes the second act with melodrama. One hears an undertone of Bolshevism and unmistakable echoes of the derision that dogged Queen Marie across our country. Mr. Sherwood dares destroy any trace of consistency by marrying off his Princess to her plumber's son at the end with as glossy a happy ending as ever was pasted on the movies which...
...airplane for Africa and another woman. On the way, his plane fell and squashed him to death. This left Denise de Lambesc, netted in a foreign tradition, to fashion a slow existence for herself, for her two sons. Faced with the choice of a new husband, she at last declines the proposals of her husband's stepbrother although these are reinforced by the per- suasions of his family. Instead she marries her U. S. lawyer, Bryce Sutherland (clubs: Racquet and Tennis), because he is a bigger and better man. Author Graham writes polite romance in mannered English and affected French...