Word: lovelorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department. This seventh volume of "The Pepys Ballads" concludes Professor Rollins's reprints from the Pepys Collection, although it will presently be followed by an eighth, containing Indexes to the whole work. Some of these ballads are of a strictly historical nature; numerous others deal with the troubles of lovelorn maidens; various have to do with deeds of passion and violence, expiated on the gallows; and many more report strange and wonderful news. So miscellaneous, indeed, are the themes in this volume, that in many ways it is the most interesting and valuable of the seven. The London Times comments...
Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer), newspaper adviser to lovelorn gum-chewers . . . Litt.D...
Virtuous Husbands (Universal). "Remember that your wife is a shrinking violet," wrote Pansy Pomeroy, conductor of a colyum of advice to the lovelorn, in one of the countless letters of guidance which she left her son, Elliott Nugent. So in a hotel in Niagara Falls, while his wife is waiting for him in bed, Nugent sleeps on a sofa in the parlor. This honeymoon scene was the one which the audience, like the bride, had been looking forward to, but it is staged so much in the spirit of good clean Will-Haysian fun that it loses even the little...
...Taylor shelved it for Peter Ibbetson the evening he met Constance Collier at a party given by Katherine Cornell. In his libretto he followed the structure of the Peter Ibbetson which Miss Collier adapted in 1917 as a play for herself and the Barrymore Brothers. The story which every lovelorn schoolgirl knows...
That the late, woman-worshiped Cinemactor Valentino may have died at just the right time?before talking & singing pictures came in?for his memory to remain inviolate in countless lovelorn breasts, was indicated last week when Wanamaker's department store in Manhattan made this unexpected announcement...