Word: incognito
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...Legion which subsequently sends him to Culver in memory of his father. To Tom's friend Slim Summerville presently comes Tom's long-lost father (H. B. Warner). Shellshocked, he had deserted after exchanging identification tags with an arm he found on the battlefield. Slim brings father & son together, incognito. The father is about to kill himself, after seeing Tom at Culver. Tom saves him, learns who he is. Tom plans to leave Culver next year to stand by his disgraced father, when the Legion obtains for the latter an honorable discharge...
...Cracksman Jimmy Valentine in the small town. Alison Skipworth is the grizzled old grifter with formidable dimples. She is the long-forgotten wife of a provincial hotelkeeper (Richard Bennett) and the mother of his two daughters. A rolling stone, she comes back to the starting line for moss, incognito except to her husband. But for $20 she swindled out of the warden as she was leaving her latest penitentiary she is penniless, but she caracoles into town as the Countess of Auburn. She finds one daughter's marriage being blocked by the town banker. She asks him to draw...
Reserved for Ladies (Paramount British) is a witty statement of the social status of a prince of London headwaiters (Leslie Howard) who falls in love incognito with a South African heiress (Elizabeth Allan). He follows her from shop to shop, picking up things she drops; to her hotel (whose dining-room autocrat he is); to the Austrian Tyrol. He is making progress against her sniggers when an incognito King (George Grossmith) comes to the inn, is ah'd and curtseyed at, recognizes Headwaiter Howard as an old friend. Howard explains his own incognito which the King respects, inviting...
Secretary of State Stimson, modest as a jack of diamonds traveling incognito, insisted that in clasping Sir Eric Drummond's hand he did not do it as Secretary of State. He had not even come to Geneva as Chief of the U. S. Delegation to the Disarmament Conference, he said, but as a simple U. S. delegate...
Neither tried nor sentenced to Death was John Wilkes Booth. After killing President Abraham Lincoln he escaped to Virginia, was tracked down and shot in a barn which his pursuers had ignited-though some say he escaped entirely, roamed the land for years incognito...