Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desperadoes trying to do the old father out of his ranch. The young son comes back from the war, congressional medal and all, just in time. There is also a girl and a beautiful white horse. The latter is good enough even to make Tom Mix's Tony jealous...
Meller has been married. Gomez Carillo, her husband, was a powerful South American journalist. Jealous of her success, he had her arrested and almost succeeded in having her detained in an asylum for alleged insanity. The Pope annulled their marriage. She pronounces her name May-aire, but Manhattanites say Meller...
...first work to appear in the movies and the first major work of his unblessed by his uncanny flair for titles. It sounds just like a movie, and indeed it proves to be just that. It is about a girl (Dorothy Mackaill) who tries to make an Englishman jealous by dancing with all the gigolos in Europe. In the process she meets and quite succumbs to Conway Tearle...
...cannot but recognize much mother wit among the refuse, a native tang in the bawdy breeze. The story: the leggy daughter of a long line of muddling-through country gentlemen embraces higher education, marries an elfish gentleman of traditions and talents, sees him off to the wars, straddles those jealous nags wifehood, motherhood and career, and comes a cropper...
...whether the additional expenditure would yield results sufficient to justify itself is an open question. That a jealous Congress and equally egotistic states would care to see the powers of the present Bureau of Education greatly expanded seems unlikely...