Word: ralstons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When only smoking embers remained on the hillsides 130 homes were destroyed, more than million-dollar damage was done. The dwellings of wealthy Ralston White, Lucian Marsh, Charles Coles, Mrs. Mary Webber Fisk, German Consul Kurt Zeigler, had been devoured. And as fire in a forest will sometimes lay bare a landmark half-forgotten, one ash-heap in Mill Valley stood out in despatches with historical significance. It was the home of Col. Andrew Summers Rowan, U. S. A. retired, onetime world hero, the man who "carried the message to Garcia...
...Colonel so elderly and so gallant that when faced with the temptation of cuckolding him, an officer who comes from the right school will ask for a transfer. A playwright who comes from the right school will then get the woman into danger. In the besieged Buddhist monastery Esther Ralston and Dix kiss while tribesmen's 'bullets spatter around them. At intervals they speak with as much conviction as they can bombastic lines shopworn 'by ten years of theatrical use. Miss Ralston is beautiful and a good actress. Dix is handsome but doesn...
...other hand he ran politics. He managed the campaign of Alton Brooks Parker for President in 1904. In 1912 he started the swing to Wilson in the Baltimore convention and got Indiana's Thomas R. Marshall named for Vice President. In 1916 a governor whom he elected, Samuel Ralston, appointed him to the Senate. He was, however, defeated for election by James E. Watson (see page 11). Nonetheless he later elected Ralston to the Senate and in 1924 he was on the point of naming Ralston for the Presidency -after the McAdoo-Smith fight-when Ralston refused...
...Strange Case of Lena Smith. A series of patient, beautifully photographed and slightly academic incidents record the suffering which life lays bit by bit upon Esther Ralston, a Viennese servant-girl. It isn't always clear why she should bear so much-the loss of her child, the concealment of her marriage, the insults of the Chief of the Bureau of Morals, in whose kitchen she works, but she is a meek one-until the last, that is. Although he has told his story too carefully, perhaps, and dedicated it too consciously to the majesty of suffering, Josef...
...Sawdust Paradise. Than Esther Ralston few are more lovely, than Hobart Bosworth few more noble. Somehow La Ralston failed to be convincing as the circus Hallie whom an evangelist (Bosworth) denounced because she ran a shell game. She was arrested, paroled in the evangelist's care. She gets religion, almost loses her boy friend (Reed Howes), but inevitably wins him over to the cause of righteousness...