Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chow to Boston between a U. S. and a British ship to win the tea trade. A British lass, the fiancee of a dastardly lord, falls in love with a U. S. tar. Picturesque costumes, plenty of spray and salty subtitles such as "Better luff your needle to port," and "Set the weather stun sails" set the atmospherics flying...
...Deck was extracted from an old Belasco play entitled Shore Leave, the plot of which charts the adventures of the hostess (Louise Groody) of a sailors' inn, who follows in the wake of Sailor Bilge Smith (Charles King), finally towing him away from all those sweethearts in every port to her own suddenly acquired opulence. In addition to merry tunes, jolly chorus, salty high-spirits, the show has the rarest quality of the season-humor. The Thief. In her fourth attempt of the year, talented Alice Brady has hit upon a revival. Henri Bernstein's play was written...
Married. Robert Keith, actor, author of The Tightwad (TIME, April 25); to Peg Entwistle, ingenue actress; at Port Chester, N. Y., after a four-day courtship...
Died. Mrs. Evalyn Smith Nesbitt Tome France, first woman president of a national bank* wife of onetime (1917-23) Senator from Maryland Dr. Joseph Irwin France; widow of Jacob Tome, and co-founder with him of the Jacob Tome Institute (Port Deposit, Md. -commonly called Tome School); in Baltimore, Md.; following an operation...
...played lor seven seasons on the Princeton football team, there being in his day (1884-90) no rule barring freshmen and divinity students. *She was president of the Cecil National Bank, Port Deposit, Md. (1898-1905) and of the National Bank of Elton...