Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Constance Middleton, wife of a Harley Street Surgeon, John Middleton. John is having an affair with Marie Louise, a great friend of Constance's. Constance knows of the liaison but has decided to ignore it as long as she can. The situation comes to a head, however, when Mortimer, husband of Marie Louise, bursts in, and accuses John and Marie Louise before Constance. The latter, clever lady, concocts a magnificent alibi for her husband and his mistress, and Mortimer goes away, abject, to buy his wife a string of pearls, as heart-balm for his suspicions of her. Constance then...
...accordance with this theory Constance determines to go to work, and earn enough to pay her board and lodging, and so have no obligations toward her husband. This she does, and at the end of the play she hands John a cheque for a thousand pounds, and tells him that she is going off for a six weeks' holiday with another man, who has loved her for fifteen years...
...addition to the gifts mentioned above, books have been sent by G. C. Beals '98, of Boston; F. H. Curtis '91, of Charles River; G. T. Emmei '98, of New York; S. W. Fish '08, of New York; V. M. Fry '30, of Ridgewood, N. J.; Joseph Husband '08, of New York; L. E. Kirstein '30, of Boston; Major E. H. Litchfield '99, of New York; E. P. Merritt '82, of Boston; D. W. Robinson '90, of New York; Miss K. A. Sargent, of New York; Colonel A. A. Sprague '97, of Chicago; Mrs. F. G. Thomson, of Pennsylvania...
...Shrewd director of The Green Hat, Saturday's Children, etc., etc.; husband of Katharine Cornell...
Divorced. Mrs. Marilynn Miller Pickford, 29, famed musical comedy actress, from Jack Pickford, 31, cinemactor and brother of Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks; in Versailles. She charged desertion, incompatibility. Her first husband was Actor Frank Carter who died in 1920 in an automobile accident. Said she last June: "Paris divorces are easy to get!" French legal circles were vexed, the Pickford divorce suit was deferred to October...