Word: lover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of her relations with a sinuous foreigner. Julius Beaufort, she is the center of gossip. Love again comes into her life in the person of Newland Archer, rising young politician, who is already married to her cousin. However, she scarifies herself for the sake of her lover's career and the scenes leading up to the renunciation have dramatic power that Miss Cornell utilizes to the full...
STRICTLY DISHONORABLE-funny fairy tale about a speakeasy, a Mississippi maid, a Latin lover...
...Fate of the Baron is the tale of an aristocratic gentleman whose life's errand is to become the lover of a prima donna and whose ecstacy at her final acceptance is quickly changed to gentlemanly chagrin when she leaves him after their first night. Denouement: the Baron hears that his night of love was the result of a curse, muttered by the prima donna's previous lover on his deathbed. Upon hearing this the Baron can do nothing but die of shock, which he promptly does. Author Schnitzler's characters die easily, often...
...Argyle Case" with Thomas Meighan completes the double bill. Also a sound picture and a very good one, it presents Mr. Meighan in the new role of detective, and he proves himself quite efficient in solving the famous Argyle murder, doing it in a way that will delight any lover of mystery. He is ably supported by H. B. Warner and Lila...
...Eltinge in The Crinoline Girl, with George Arliss in Disraeli (see p. 69). Meteoric was her success as Harlot Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham's Rain (1922). Although she missed but 15 performances in Rain's run of some five years, in her last play, Her Cardboard Lover, her performance became dilatory, then apperiodic, then sporadic. Failing to appear on the stage in Milwaukee and St. Louis, she was suspended for two seasons, fined two weeks' salary (some $3,600) by Actor's Equity. After the suspension she turned to cinema, appeared in Man, Woman...