Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engagement pin he has given his fiancée and running away in a stolen car. In a weak third act he returns to disprove all charges and the family revives its punch-drunk fortunes in the stockmarket. Characters: the raucous, cynical daughter (Claire Carleton), the daughter in love (Nancy Sheridan), the lazy, acquisitive son (David Morris), the shrewd, big-hearted mother incapable of discipline (Helen Lowell), the speculating uncle, the unsuccessful suitor who makes pig faces to register loutishness, the stereotyped count and the rich, disapproving aunt. Weighed down with stock characters, a stale plot and mechanical lines, Come...
...mistress, representing herself as a grief-shattered widow (Queenie Smith). Plot: she drills unremittingly into the head of every man visible that he is a big strong man, she a little weak woman. Thus she gets proposals of various kinds from a bachelor, a married man too much in love with his busy literary wife, and a theatrical producer. For two acts she fills their pipes, leans against their knees, tells them her sole object in life is to take care of a big baby who wants to be taken care of, nib- bles at food in public, wolfs...
Claire Windsor, film actress, defending a $100,000 alienation of affections suit in Hollywood, admitted she had written the following in her first love-letter to Broker Alfred C. Read Jr.: "Darling, you have been gone only three hours. It seems strange to come up to my room and not call you to let you know I am here, and in a few minutes I will be eating alone...
Meantime Midwestern was growing older and bigger; Ella, now Miss Bishop and a campus landmark, grew with it. Love came once more, in the shape of a middle-aged professor, but he had a wife. Miss Bishop's mother went crazy, rocked back & forth in her room for nine years. The professor's unwanted wife died; on his way to Miss Bishop he was killed in an accident. Miss Bishop's salary was cut; her savings went down the drain when her bank failed. But when cheering alumni gave her a testimonial dinner all Miss Bishop...
When it came to a showdown, Marda found that Mother knew best: married love was better than clandestine...