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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...
...never allowed journalism to run away with his sense of true criticism, based upon his academic training. Perhaps he can be rated as our only academic journalist. His admirations are sometimes odd considering his background. He has praised Sherwood Anderson and found reason to admire Black Oxen...
...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...
Gertrude Atherton, novelist: " My book, Black Oxen, which revolves about the metamorphosis of an elderly woman into a frisky flapper through a rejuvenating glandular operation, was removed from the shelves of public libraries in Rochester, N. Y., by Mayor Van Zandt, at the request of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The reason given was: ' Unfit for the minds of young people...
Scientists say the new stimulant has the advantage, over alcohol and alkaloids, of being a natural factor in bodily processes. It is non-intoxicating and non-habit-forming. Since the War " it has been given to miners, laborers (up to a quarter ounce per day), horses, oxen with good effect...