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...riders of a tandem bicycle, at the desk where Loving is thinking about writing an autobiographical novel. They have different notions as to how the book should end. When Loving & Co. go home for dinner, the reason for their dual presence is partially explained. John Loving married his wife (Selena Royle) when, distraught by the deaths of both his parents, he had lost his faith in God. Now he has begun to lose his faith in his own love for his wife because one of her friends (Ilka Chase) has seduced him. When John Loving starts to tell the story...
...book that Mary Howard is in the process of finishing, the wife understands the plea of the other woman in love with her husband and blandly surrenders him, but when the ladies really meet under unusual circumstances in the country Claire Woodruff (Selena Royale) is very unsympathetic, and even the husband (Herbert Rawlinson) when confronted by both wife and mistress, male like chooses his wife, thereby being deserted by both. This is what Miss Crothers attempts to draw through three acts...
...appears capable, her publisher. The fact that he already has a perfectly good wife and two children deters neither of them. Mary will go to his wife, talk things over sensibly, prove that the husband should be released. It will all be very logical, very civilized. But the wife (Selena Royle) and Mary do not meet under such well-ordered conditions. The interview turns into a scene. In the end neither woman wants the publisher and Mary is last seen considerably dazed but with faithful Jimmy's head resting on her knees...
...Married. Selena Royle, daughter of Playwright Edwin Milton Royle, actress (Peer Gynt, her father's Launcelot & Elaine}; and Earle Larimore, Theatre Guild actor (Mourning Becomes Electra); in Manhattan...
...careless of their virtue, white men foolish with their drink and only the natives retain a stealthy dignity. Handsome Basil Rathbone (The Command to Love) is the dissolute Nordic who is pursued by Irene March (Betty Lawford) but who really loves Irene's married sister-in-law Philippa (Selena Royle). For all his tippling and reputed wenching the Nordic is a brave lonely man, fighting fever and the opposition of public opinion in the district. This general resentment culminates in Philippa's husband taking a shot at Mr. Rathbone...