Word: missed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Henry Mason Day, business and jail mate of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair; and a Miss Dorothy Marie Ridenour of Washington; at Ballston...
George Lemesneger, Los Angeles winemaker and realtor, died in 1926. One of his three daughters was Sister Philomene of the Convent of the Good Shepherd in St. Louis. Released of her vows she went to California, as Miss Jeanne Lemesneger, to settle the estate (valued between $5,000,000 and $8,000,000). Last week it was learned that she had inherited some $1,500,000, that she would return to convent life...
...policy of revivifying somewhat shopworn stars by publicizing them as new discoveries has worked out well with Bebe Daniels. She may not have as good a voice as Ziegfeld's stage Rita (Ethylind Terry) but she sings well enough and gets her lines over. Best shots : Miss Daniels in her metal dress; a Mexican padrone respect fully kissing a moneyed young man be cause he takes him to be a safecracker...
Lawyer Weatherby is forlorn and frustrated until one evening when Miss Cowl strolls into his living room as Jenny Valentine, a famed actress. She immediately perceives that, despite his greying hair and prowess at the bar, he is a small boy beset by vultures. Sharing his enthusiasm for roses and stamp-collecting, she wins his confidence, lures him away to her camp in the hills, where, after a great deal of coy urgency on her part, he consents to stay...
When he returns after this idyll, his family are still so impossible that he deserts them forever for Miss Cowl. Not, however, before she has given them a rhetorical strafing which is the epitome of hokum...