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...department, Ted Dane suffers mightily as the hopelessly inadequate Christian. That a honey like Roxanne could ever fall for Dane's sniveling wimp of a Gascon seems harder to believe than that Cyrano could ever see beyond that nose of his. Of the supporting cast, Donal Logue as the rightous Captain Le Bret is appropriately stiff-backed, and nuns Jane Avrich and Chalon Emmons scamper and giggle most agreeably during the last scene...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Nose Has It | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

...story of Lilly Penny--LilyBecker Penny--brought up in the close moral confines imposed by a rightous mother who believed in telling her daughter nothing about anything except the virtues of a "settled married life". So Lilly marries, but after three weeks of marriage, she revolts to flee to New York, where she tries to be herself; whe obtains a heraing for her voice from the great Auchinloss, but it is not a great voice. Who knows but that sufficient freedom given her in her earlier year might not have allowed it to develop? At any rate, Lilly decides that...

Author: By A. D. W. jr., | Title: FANNIE HURST SUCCEEDS IN FIRST NOVEL | 5/6/1921 | See Source »

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