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That genial advocate, Alvin Mansfield Owsley, U. S. Minister to Rumania, was met at the dock in Manhattan by a delegation of cheering admen last week, put up at the Hotel Roosevelt before reporting to President Roosevelt...
...reaction will be. In the course of a prolonged honeymoon, she acquires culture, fashionable boredom, a suspicion that her husband is more stupid than she thought at first. He enjoys being sponged on by his friends, particularly approves of a languid professional punster named Harold Sigrift (Monroe Owsley). Abby badgers Roderick into going to work for his father's firm. When he retires, humiliated by his incompetence, she scandalizes his parents by leaving him and going to work herself, at her old job. Finally Roderick comes to her with a pay check he has earned. Abby decides that since...
Considerably less evanescent than the play by Samuel N. Behrman in which, performing as Sigrift, Critic Alexander Woollcott scored a sedentary success, Brief Moment emerges in the cinema as a bright investigation of small problems, slick, chipper and reasonably entertaining. Most inevitable shot: Owsley, inveterate cad of the films, sneering at Abby across his cocktail glass...
...Also out of New York harbor last week sailed Alvin Mansfield Owsley, fifth (1922-23) national commander of the American Legion, to become U. S. Minister to Rumania. With him aboard the Manhattan were his wife and three children. In Dallas where he lives, practices law and collects rugs there is a story to the effect that every time Mrs. Owsley has a baby, her wealthy father puts $100,000 or more into the Owsley family pocketbook...
Alvin Mansfield Owsley of Texas, onetime National Commander of the American Legion, to be Minister to Rumania...