Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Gilbert has been connected with the theatre all his life. With his mother, an actress, he grew up in road-shows, later filled inkwells for a San Francisco rubber company, played in stock and finally in a picture, The Snob. Mary Pickford gave him his first big part (Heart of the Hills). In 1918 he married a girl who put on an act in his base-camp; later they were divorced. He married Leatrice Joy in 1921; they were divorced. He has a 92-ft. schooner called The Temptress, drives a Packard, plays tennis fairly well, golf badly...
...disciple of passe Freud) he had no Mexican mistress, shrank from raucous army companions, refused to attend a second bullfight. Considerable drunkenness was overlooked in those days, but Grant's must have been more than considerable, for he drank himself out of the army, thereby blundering upon the road to fame. If he had stayed in the army, which he detested and disapproved but hadn't the initiative to quit, he would have had a conventional small command in the Civil War. As it happened, he was drifting from farmer pillar to salesclerk post, miserably deficient in supporting...
Married. Edna Best, 28, English actress, and Herbert Marshall, 38, English actor, co-stars of Frederick Lonsdale's The High Road, current Broadway comedy; in Jersey City...
Brattle Street is busy today, and the elms that covered what was once the road to the west bordered by country houses now wave over whirring traffic. The house at the head of Longfellow Park peeps from behind its screen of shrubbery as it did seventy years ago, and those who pass the Craigie House turn and look, or do not turn and pass, knowing vaguely that a poet once lived there...
...then known at Lechmere's Point and crossing on the narrow causeway over what was then the wide tidal estuary of Miller's river made their way to Union Square, Somerville, whence they proceeded by what is now Beacon Street, Somerville, reached Massachusetts Avenue or Menotomy Road, by Beech Street proceeded to Arlington Centre then known as the Village of Menotomy. The return of the British was over the same route. The troops which were able to cross Charles River at the foot of what is now Boylston Street owing to the negligence of the patriots, who failed to destroy...