Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Bancroft and Miss Evelyn Brent will probably go down through the ages as the players who made "Underworld," one of the tastiest cinematic hors d'oeuvres of all time. Meanwhile, however, they are devoting their efforts to making other and, it must be admitted with a wistful sigh, worse pictures. But since the decline from "Underworld" is of considerable extent their products...
...come off: it is an entertaining film and in places a very good film, but it suffers by comparison. Bancroft looks extremely roguish and in spite of the fact that he is cast as a Diamond in the Rough he manages to leave the impression of good clean villainy. Miss Brent, playing a girl reeking with refinement for the first part of the picture, redeems herself by going slightly but uncontrollably native in the latter half. Which brings us to a point we have been trying to reach for some time--to wit: the locale is the indefinite tropics...
...Died. Miss Annie H. Martin, 71, onetime editor of the Carson City News, superintendent of the U. S. mint of Carson City, Nev.; in Carson City...
...Married. Miss Rosemary Ames, daughter of Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames (Booth Fisheries, American Steel Foundries, Chicago Journal of Commerce, etc., etc.), of Chicago; to Ogden Ketting, subaltern of Public Utility Magnate Samuel Insull, in Chicago. Samuel Insull Jr. functioned as best...
...fountain in Piccadilly Circus, still the lions and Nelson, still the fireplace sanctum under the stairs in St. James's Club, still Big Ben and Curzon Street, still the higgledy piggledy of Shepherds Market. There was still Mrs. Beddoes, charwoman these many years to that kind Miss Janet and her beautiful sister Miss Rosalind, poor and snobbish. And today, being the wedding, was a holiday, for Mrs. Beddoes was going inside, inside St. Margaret's, and not to watch as usual from outside the railings. No, "The Duke and Duchess of Romney request the pleasure of the company...