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...Kate Nesbitt, like a hard wall beneath gracious ivies, considers her best-loved daughter as good as dead. Sister Mabel's agate eyes gleam with righteousness and curiosity. Sister Janet is a golden haired prig, until love storms her own maiden ramparts...
WILLIAM-E. H. Young-Harcourt, Brace ($2). When crises arise, strange discrepancies of outlook are often uncovered among intimates. So finds William Nesbitt when his daughter Lydia frankly exchanges a lawfully wed Oliver for a Henry. Of all the family, only William himself and plump, generous Dora fully sympathize...
...William B. Nesbitt, who was placed in charge of the transaction under the terms of the will, estimated that the total estate was worth between two and three million dollars. One million dollars is deducted by Mr. Ward to be put in trust for his son, Artemas Ward '99, and with the exception of several minor bequests the residue is given to Harvard to establish the General Artemas Ward memorial...
...seems to range in age from eight to eighteen, according to the impulse of the moment. By turn she is petulant, frowsy, winning, pusillanimous, firm. But she fuses this all together with her indomitable histrionic spirit, and saves the part from being a teapot tempest of tears. Tom Nesbitt and Wallace Ford provide good shadows for the background, but the aunts are mere stalking horses...
...Bill of Divorcement, has a new melodrama on American boards. A very dreadful affair culminating in a slap. Katherine Cornell plays the heroine under the Jane Austen name of Shirley Pride. But Shirley is not at all a Jane Austen character. Her manly foster brother, played by Tom Nesbitt, has played fast and loose with some one else's bonds for the sake of a little spitfire wench. Shirley, in love with foster brother, purchases the evidence of his guilt from a salacious clerk at the price of her precious jewel of virtue...