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...Star for a Night" is an inconsequential bit about exaggerated filial devotion. Claire Trevor and Evelyn Venable, both rather neutral young women, pretend to be riding high so that their mother back in Austria will accept money to be spent to her blind eyes. When mamma comes to America the deception is a little harder, and then when she regains her sight there is the utmost consternation as to how to pull the wool over the freshly-cured-eyes. It's pretty sugary up to this point, but when Mother Jane Darwell discovers the fraud, things get stickier than ever...
Vexed at such snubs, Mr. & Mrs. Wright Sr. vowed that their son should remain married. Daughter Mary Belle, called in the Press "The Do-As-You-Please Bride," described her marriage as "simply scrumptious." "I don't care if Mamma is a darn good lawyer," declared Mary Belle, "Edward and I will hire a lawyer...
...Windsor Great Park last week. As a special treat, she was allowed to have breakfast downstairs with her father & mother, the Duke and Duchess of York, and her grandmother, Queen Mary. Birthday presents from family & friends were hidden in closets and behind chairs. A large electric automobile from Mamma and Papa and a bicycle from Grandmamma were hard to conceal, but it took 20 minutes of scrabbling to uncover a gold-headed riding crop from His Majesty, "Uncle David." Later, Princess Elizabeth used the crop to thump the fat sides of her favorite white pony, Peggy. In the afternoon there...
...internal evidence indicates that Eldest Abbe Patience did most. She starts the story from the very beginning, with the births of herself and her brothers. "But Papa had a good time before Johnny was born because he discovered how to stop all the traffic in Paris. He would take Mamma out in our Citroen and yell to the agents de police, 'femme enceinte,' which means, 'woman with child,' and the agent de police would stop all the trolley-cars and autos until Papa got by." This system broke down, however, the night the Abbes motored...
...Once Mamma and I, Patience, went on the little schooner over the channel to Le Havre. All the French were very seasick, but there was one man who was English and he sat himself down and put a robe over him, placed a vomiting pan under his chin and then began to read his paper. He wasn't a bit excited, but the French were groaning and saying 'Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu!' and they were all green. Mamma and I stayed well." In Moscow the children went sightseeing. "We went in to see Lenin. He was dead...