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Last July, editors were in a quandary over a book called The President's Daughter, published and issued for review by an "Elizabeth Ann Guild, Inc." of Manhattan. The author, one Nan Britton, purported to have been infatuated since girlhood with her fellow townsman, the late President Harding. He was represented as having returned her devotion after she had grown up and he had become a U. S. Senator. He was said to have placed her in Manhattan with the U. S. Steel Corp. as a secretary, through his friend, the late Elbert H. Gary. The most intimate scenes, complete...
Editors were in a quandary because, startling though it was, every page of The President's Daughter seemed to ring true. Nan Britton did not sound like an adventuress but like a smalltown girl who felt she had experienced one of the worlds great loves. Moreover, names and places, letters, photographs and episodes were in great and confident profusion through the book. The bravest, most brazen charlatan would never have dared so much...
...split occurred soon after General Chiang Kai-Shek captured Shanghai. An attempt was made to wrest power from the victorious general who evaded the move by setting up an independent regime at Nan king and denouncing the government at Hankow as bolshevist...
...audiences there are best satisfied when all of their favorites shine. And it has been several weeks since anyone except Clive himself bore any of the burden. Nan Marriot Watson has disappointed in a variety of roles. Even the ladies' delight, Allen Mowbray, has failed them, for his part in the present play is not only small but his performance is unimpressive. It might be ventured that it is a grave mishap to include the dashing Mr. Mowbray in a cast when he doesn't hold front and center. His lines will be fortunate if they receive anything like their...
...require more consistency and steadiness than subtlety. The play depends chiefly upon three characters, the three principles of the triangle. Perhaps of these, Allan Mowbray, as the Italian grape grower eager for a wife to enjoy the sunset half of his life with him, is most realistically played. But Nan Marriett Watson as Amy, who comes from Frisco to wed him, runs her gamut of emotions with accuracy and some sweetness. Richard-Whorf, as Joe, the rolling stone, has a peculiarly slow-moving part; it is rather possible that he overdoes his shiftless speech and dawdling walk. But the spectator...