Word: mcavoy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. May McAvoy, spinster...
Caught in the Fog (talkie) is an uneasy and mildly sarcastic attempt to parody Crook Cinema which, in various disguises, has constituted nearly half of the recent output of Hollywood. Lots of crooks, including May McAvoy, a lady crook, sometimes dumb, sometimes stabbing into speech, come through Florida fog to a deserted houseboat on which the mother of a millionaire's son has left a pearl necklace worth $200,000 in cinema money. Boob detectives supply most of the comedy and Conrad Nagel's voice the best vocal sequences of a gentle melodrama which is parody only...
...ears of the audience at the Vitaphone's latest offering. They were uttered boldly and flatly by a weak-chinned young cinemactor named William Collier Jr. He played the son of Wall Street's rich and cruel lion (Lionel Barrymore). The girl he loved (May McAvoy) was the daughter of an innocent judge that the lion had ruined financially. The throbbing drama, an old one, was arranged so that the end was happy. It was an unfortunate vehicle for the Vitaphone; the lines were terrible, making the audience laugh in tense moments. The girl had a throaty voice...
...been doing well in practice the past week, and David Guarnaccia '28 to throw the javelin, and Pratt and Guarnaccia to heave the shot and discus. To stack up with these men the Hanoverians will place Phillips and Lyle in the hammer. Harden in the javelin, and McAvoy and Lyle in the shot and discus. The javelin, shot and discus may prove to be the most closely contested events of the meet, with the University holding a slight edge...
...Were Single. A sportive and decorative quartet of players make gay this comedy of a gentleman who picks yellow buttercups outside the marital fence. Ted (Conrad Nagel) and May (May McAvoy) were married only a year when a brunette (Myrna Loy) crinkled her eyes at him, and he temporarily forgot all vows. The brunette borrowed his cigaret lighter, a present from his wife, and May discovers all. Alarmed, she telephones a mauve musician (Andre Beranger) and the two slip under the lap robes of the car in which the philandering pair are taking a speedy moonlight, midnight drive...