Word: oxen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Black Oxen...
...alleged phenomenon of rejuvenation of women is associating itself in the popular mind with Black Oxen which was the title given to her recent novel by Mrs. Gertrude Atherton. In it she tells of Countess Zattiany who, at 57, recovers the power to live the life of youth...
...thoroughly American and determined in her admiration of things Nordic. A great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, she is not far from the stream of American literary tradition. Her sense of plot is extraordinary. This journalistic ability is especially evident in Black Oxen, although I'm not sure that I consider that indubitably readable book exactly in Ben Franklin's line...
Married. Corinne Griffith, cinema heroine (Black Oxen, Six Days), to Walter Morosco, son of Oliver Morocsco, theatrical producer; at Tia Juana, Mexico. He is her sixth...
...Black Oxen. The wave of comment blown up by Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's novel washed it immediately into the movies. To play it, Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle were summoned. They managed to do some rather effective acting in a moderately uninteresting play. The plot, of course, discusses the rejuvenation of Mme. Zattiany and her absorbing effect on Lee Clavering, newspaper columnist...