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...overlong tale of a canny matriarch has palled. Mme Leroy-Gomez (Helen Haye) raises her two elegant sons to prey on women, undergoes many a humorous travail keeping their shoulders to the wheel. One, married to a rich Argentine, almost loses his wife because of an infatuation for a penniless Slav. The other, orchidaceous young Derek Williams (Journey's End) finally agrees to wed a lusty, rich young U. S. divorcee, with the private reservation that he will leave her after three years, use his savings to marry a modiste...
...preacher. As her fame spread, her ambition grew. Then she fell in love, married a good workman, but kept on preaching. When her husband was killed in an accident, she even preached at the funeral. Susan and her religion both came a cropper when she met young Clarabut, a penniless wastrel who admired her but would not take her Message seriously. Clarabut got in Susan's blood. She dropped everything for him, went to live with him in London. Their marriage was passionate, bitter, quarrelsome, brief. When Susan finally left him she had no money and nowhere...
...Author was shell-shocked in the War, in which he served as an infantry officer, British Expeditionary Force. He was a poet before that. Married in 1913 to "H.D." (Hilda Doolittle), U. S. born imagist poet, he no longer lives with her. Demobilization found him penniless, jobless, touchy. A reviewing job on the London Times Literary Supplement was soon too much for his nerves; translation has given him his bread & butter. An Englishman born & bred. Aldington has left what he thinks is a sinking ship, lives in the south of France. Other books: War & Love, Images of Desire, Death...
Died. Alice Mary Robertson, 77, second woman to serve in Congress (1921-23); of cancer; penniless, in Muskogee, Okla. A pronounced anti-suffragist, she refused a woman secretary while holding office, said it was "a man's job." During her campaign she made no speeches, announced the following platform: "First, I am a Christian; second, I am an American, and third, I am a Republican and a standpatter...
...protect him adequately in the city, the King moved with his entourage to Fontainebleau, 15 mi. distance, took quarters in the Hotel Savoy. Soon the $20,000 which he had brought with him was nearly exhausted by loans to his companions who, in their haste, had fled Spain penniless. Straightway he began to negotiate loans upon a personal credit estimated...