Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Runaway. A young woman named Clara Bow has been heavily involved in a dreary southern mountain story with the usual wholesome, fulsome finish. She starts out as a painted lady of Broadway and ends in the uplands of Kentucky happily ginghamed...
AFTER NOON?Susan Ertz?Appleton ($2). A burnt husband shuns the altar. Charles Lester, left with vivid twin daughters by a flighty runaway wife, guards his British independence, his tolerance and intelligence from further exposure. But an American widow's frank piquancy is too much for him. He marries her, and when she really learns that clinging-vine love is not for folk walking erect in the afternoon of life, they enter upon a happy ever-after. It is a cool, delightful study in mature emotions from the poised pen of the author of Nina and Madame Claire...
...said he). The rough men smiled. He put them out on the honor system to work on the roads for pay. One convict ran away. The convicts cheered, for their chance had come. They asked for parole to chase the offender. Raymond T. Granted it and they caught the runaway. Raymond T. became idolized...
...direction. Tossing the reins of his own mount to his brother, Edward dismounted and attempted to seize the bridle of the escaped horse. The horse escaped still farther?over a fence. Undaunted, the Prince climbed carefully over a locked gate and seized the bridle of the now apparently docile runaway. By that time the disgruntled groom who had let it get away from him in the first place had ridden up. Edward climbed back over the gate, climbed back upon his own horse and trotted briskly off with his brother, who had watched the proceedings with an amiable and indulgent...
...Circle. Parts of this picture, particularly the early parts, make enormously amusing screen material. One finds a tale of English nobility; a runaway couple coming back after 20 years to warn the daughter of the woman in the case not to run away with someone else's husband. It is a bid for happiness that life will defeat. Somerset Maugham wrote the original comedy. As is customary a new ending has been written, quite destroying the author's original intent. One is used to those things by now, and thankful for sequences of shrewd amusement in the earlier...