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Emma (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This story, of an aging servant who marries her employer, is more lachrymose than the others in which Marie Dressier has played since her rediscovery two years ago. A chronicle of defeated loyalty, it might have been done with less sentimental relish for the misfortunes of the principal character, but it is still an interesting, sometimes powerful picture which deserves the monetary rewards which it will doubtless achieve. Miss Dressler's troubles start when she marries the inventor whose children she has helped to rear. They resent the marriage; when the inventor dies, leaving...
...accept the findings of "no bill." Sternly he admonished his jurors: "I present to you a question of anarchy in this community. Are you willing to take the responsibility for that situation? . . . We are embarking upon a very necessary tour of duty. It is one I do not relish any more than you do." So saying, he sent them home to think the matter over...
...ostrich reaches his prime in three years. During his period of immaturity he is delicate, must be kept out of the rain. The mature bird likes alfalfa, builds large nests. Every nine months its feathers are clipped, a process which the tame bird learns to relish. Wing feathers from a male are ivory-white, known as Whites, or spotted, known as Byocks; the drabbish wing feathers from his mate are known as Feminas and Greys. Tail feathers are Boos. A prime bird will yield about 20 oz. of feathers at each clipping. When not being clipped...
...doing so they make considerable asses of themselves in the eyes of their old friends, although a representative Boston audience looks on with good-natured indulgence. Of course, the third act reveals that the news of the legacy was false, and the inflated pair eat humble pie with obvious relish. There was also a colored maid whose paraphernalia consisted of a grotesque walk, and an inadvertent un-negroid voice. This young lady was a friend of the advertisers in the programme...
...women practiced in London last week the curtsies they proposed to make this week to King George and Queen Mary. Along with the other 19, Mrs. Charles Gates Dawes, wife of the Ambassador, would present in an atmosphere breathless with awe her own Virginia. Meanwhile Their Majesties savored with relish an emotion no less potent than...