Word: lover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Must Be Love (Colleen Moore). Fernie Schmidt was born in, and for twenty years inhabited, a delicatessen store. But a job at a perfume counter was her ideal. This she gratifies, but when her ambitious lover buys the very store in which Pappa Schmidt made $80,000, as the financial basis for their future marriage, limburger suddenly takes on the fragrance of attar of roses, pickles turn to rosettes, and Fernie, delighted, helps out in the store and back of it. Hoch die Delikatessen...
...Printz is an Arrow Collar boy with an Arrow Collar boy's personality. He sings fairly-well, however, and makes an honest stab at being Kathie's equal. She, the waitress, is a cute baby-face with a pleasant voice and more acting poise than her royal lover. The master-comedian, Dewolf Hopper, gives a professional air to the show and makes even the slightest wise-crack seem funny by the aid of a contorted face and voice. The rest of the cast is enthusiastic and homely enough to make the play as wholesome and hearty as a German Christians...
...Mugette, lovely, desirable, almost white. Strangers happen by Kentuckians, staggering drunk but thirsty still for liquor and for women like their own to be their slaves. Pistol shots; and one intruder is dead, the other enamored of Mugette. A voodoo scene, and Mugette begs a charm to win her lover, follows her most savage instincts until, despairingly, she turns to God. The wrath of the devil-worshipers and then - the Quadroon Ball, graceful, gay at first, then bloody, riotous. M. Brusard and the lover from over the mountains are killed. Only Mugette is left, loverless, as completely, as inevitably alone...
Scotch Mist. Sir Patrick Hastings,* onetime (1924) Attorney General of Great Britain under the James Ramsay Macdonald ministry, writes of a captivating lady who prefers South Africa with a masterful Scotch lover to England with a member of the British Cabinet, even though the latter happens to be her lawful, wedded husband. Into this little triangle, Sir Patrick has thrown a few chips of bright dialog, but hardly enough to exalt his play above dangerous mediocrity. Rosalinde Fuller tosses about in the role of devastating Mary Denvers with a jerkiness that irritates in spite of her sincerity. Before visiting these...
...headed each entry with" a quotation therefrom. One of these quotations appears .twice, being the thought most prominent in the lady's mind: "It is motherhood, not wifehood, that matters." She was an early feminist, having determined upon motherhood and compacted "earnestly" with her lover, a Baron, who drowned returning from Paris in 1763. "Let every woman be a mistress," she wrote, and projected a book on this theme, setting forth the naturalness of parenthood, the superiority of "naturals," the state's duty and the end of bawdry through free love...