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Word: mistressful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four leading characters are K. A. Perry '28, playing the part of Jim Morgan, elderly cattleman and father of the hero, Hank Morgan, who is portrayed by Charles Leatherbee '29. Jessica Hill, Radcliffe '30, fills the other juvenile lead, and plays the part of a young school mistress who is wooed by Hank. The part of Sabina Barker, a shrewd and clever woman of the old West is taken by Frances Small, Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. D. C. WILL RAISE CURTAIN ON FALL PRODUCT TONIGHT | 12/6/1927 | See Source »

General Alexandru Averescu, onetime (1920-22; 1926-27) Prime Minister, who helped to defend M. Manoilescue, testified that the late King Ferdinand saw Prince Carol in Paris last year and attempted to persuade him to abandon Magda Lupescu, his red-haired mistress, and conduct himself as the court wished. The Prince seemed willing, but made conditions. Whereupon the King angrily cried: "It is not for you to make conditions "but for me, the King, to do so!" Embittered at his son's attitude, the ailing Monarch returned to Bucharest. Soon afterwards, however, he admitted to General Averescu that Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Manoilescu Acquitted | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...liaison but has decided to ignore it as long as she can. The situation comes to a head, however, when Mortimer, husband of Marie Louise, bursts in, and accuses John and Marie Louise before Constance. The latter, clever lady, concocts a magnificent alibi for her husband and his mistress, and Mortimer goes away, abject, to buy his wife a string of pearls, as heart-balm for his suspicions of her. Constance then advises Marie Louise and Mortimer to go away for a year, which they do. It then appears that Constance was no more annoyed than she was, because...

Author: By P. H. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/16/1927 | See Source »

...this week K A Perry '28 is playing the part of Jim Morran, elderly cattleman, the father of the hero Hank who in portrayed by Charles Leatherbee '29. Jessic Hill, Radcliffe '30, in the other juvenile lead. In the character of Jessic Thayer, a young school mistress, she is woed by Hank Morgan. Francis Small, Radcliffe '28, takes the part of Sabina Barker, a shrewd and clever woman of the West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB PICKS LEADS FOR FALL PLAY | 11/16/1927 | See Source »

...Frances Starr and Reginald Mason. There is a joke about the Nights of Columbus. The Mulberry Bush. Dramatist Edward Knoblock discusses divorce with some sagacity, some wit, and rare indelicacy. Gathered into one rowdy evening are a mutually cheerful man and the wife from whom he plans severance, his mistress and his fiancee. The quadrangle is finally solved in the wife's bedroom with plans for the divorce melting in the pink mists of rediscovery. Claudette Colbert, adding to her role such an atmosphere of skillful sex appeal that she seems almost miscast as a lady, acts the wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 7, 1927 | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

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