Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There must be some mistake." The reporters explained again. "I'll send word to Mr. Kellogg," said Mr. Herrick. A servant was sent off. More time passed. The servant came back. Mrs. Kellogg refused to waken her husband. He was extremely tired from his day at the Conference...
...broad comic strips and hurled heedlessly across the footlights. The tearers were a downtrodden doctor who sets himself up as the bunk boss of a small town, and a rich and vapid widow; the opposition was the Irish Imperator of the village. Occultism is included and a fake Hindu servant. Most of the acting was negligible...
...plot is an involved attempt to marry a servant to a wealthy old woman. Various subplots and small intrigues are woven in, solely concerned with love or its prevalent imitation. The cast was rather carelessly thrown together with no notable performance offered...
While the wedding-guests danced and laughed, and the vodka flowed like water, Boryna's farm was the scene of piteous, hidden tragedy. Honest Kuba, servant of Boryna, had been induced by the Jew Yanka, his creditor, to poach on the Manor. The forest-keeper had shot him in the leg, and he had not dared tell until the night of the wedding when his agony became unbearable. Drunken Ambrose, examining the wound, told him that amputation at the hospital was his only hope. Kuba, companioned only by a dog, lay in the stable, listening to the sounds of feasting...
...attempt to marry a servant to a wealthy old woman...