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...Peiping bland Japanese Charge d'Affaires S. Nakayama was asked flatly why Japan seized Shanhaikwan. "This deplorable frontier clash," said he in English, "arose from the long-pent desire of our Japanese frontier garrison to see active service and to 'spank,' if I may so express myself, the Chinese troops whom they had monotonously faced for 16 months...
...York's Polo Grounds one night last week, Aida the slave girl stood near the home plate, sang of her love and terror, was at last pent up to die with her soldier lover. There were no animals at all, the supers were ludicrously spindly-shanked and awkward, the scenery an arrangement of posts and draperies which seemed often to confuse the performers. Nonetheless many a Manhattanite had journeyed tediously to 155th Street to see the second U. S. operatic performance of lissome, dark Helen Gahagan, Belasco actress (Tonight or Never) turned singer. New Jersey-born, Brooklyn-raised, Actress...
Ownership in Hollywood confines itself to either a pent house or a woman and in "Possessed," now at Loew's State, there is only the more obvious alternative. It is the tale of a full blown tiger lily who leaves the rather shut eye environment of her plowed fields to seek more stately mansions in New York. But she differs from the other members of her calling in that she is quite frank about her purpose. When first she meets her eventual benefactor she asks him, "Are you rich?" to which he replies "Is that all you want, my money...
...merely because the company had about five thousand feet of film to use up before declaring bankruptcy. It is all about a good girl who works in a company and who, despite the warnings of her friends, goes to visit her employer, on business of course, in his pent house. It is not a usual pent house at all, for it opens out on an African Zoo which the employer explains away by his passion for the Orient, an explanation which did not allay the suspicion that the set was a jungle scene that was shipped by mistake...
...jernt" named Loveland. At Loveland she meets a rich, self-contained young man who has come to see to what uses his property is being put. He takes her home, slips a $1,000 bill in her stocking, and soon after they have an "apperntment" at his pent house. Soon after, too, they have a baby, and the rich young man gallantly insists on marriage. Then the baby dies, removing the complication which brought about the union, and Miss McGonegal gallantly insists on divorce. After that the couple get back on the old basis...