Word: laura
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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POMEROY'S PAST?Laura Hope Crews and Ernest Truex in an agreeable Clare Kummer comedy...
...worthy young women marry the bachelors in the end and the twins are disposed of to their Irish father in Denver. There bustles through the entertainment a fussy and magnificently maidenly sister of one of the bachelors, to whose share falls much of the comedy. This part, played by Laura Hope Crews, was easily the most eventful. Ernest Truex did pretty well as the more cowardly of the adoptive bachelors...
...came about in the natural course of events that he was elected to Congress, and served unostentatiously for nearly 20 years. For 20 years he lived mostly in Washington, with his wife (a Scotswoman**) and Laura, his daughter. In recent years Laura has been his secretary. She is known as a very clever woman...
Minnesota happens to have a law, not very often used, that if one candidate abuses his rival and lies about him to the electorate, he can be denied his nomination even if successful in the primaries. Volstead went to court. At the trial Laura testified that her father was "a good Christian man, a good father." The court disqualified Kvale. The local Republican Committee then renominated Volstead and he was reelected...
...house in 82d Street" really existed, I found no difficulty in picturing to myself Mother Regan "to whom no one ever spoke"; Father "his head hung out in front like a lantern"; Frank Stella, and even Dudley. These people do exist. They are not, however, every day characters. Even Laura seems to have a human passion or desire, and one wonders how Dudley, a perfectly ordinary chap, with natural impulses and emotions, ever came to fall so deeply in love with this unresponsive angel. This I consider one of the fundamental weaknesses of Appassionata:" it is not logical...