Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diamond Lil-MAE WEST SEEN IN EAST SIDE SIN-DIVE...
...Happy Husband. As in most brittle comedies of bad manners, not very long after The Happy Husband begins it is evident that adultery has been done in the south room. Spectators have a justifiable opinion that Harvey Townsend's partner in sin has been Dot Rendell, who is furious with her husband for regarding her, as she thinks, beneath suspicion. The people seated on the stage suspect the languishing wife of a visiting American. When he too loudly voices his suspicions, Dot Rendell is compelled to admit that she, not Mrs. Blake, occupied the danger post in the south...
...sin against the Court is that he is believed to have drafted the reservations which the U. S. Senate has made indispensable to U. S. adherence to the World Court (TIME, Feb. 8, 1926). Those reservations have proved unacceptable to the World Court Powers. The U. S. remains non-adherent; and Judge Moore is widely believed to be well pleased...
Bottled is not, as the title might imply, a noisy melodrama of ginthetic sin. Rather, it is a quiet and delicious little comedy about the descendants of a Kentucky distiller who have inherited his plant but who are unable to profit thereby because of the exigencies of the Volstead law and the severities of their progenitor's robust and thrifty widow. At last, after selling her their shares in the enterprise so that she may continue her proud traffic in bootleg, they go away from the old distillery on various romantic errands. Bottled was written by Anne Collins...
Three Sinners. There are more than three sinners. In fact, all the leading characters, except the little child, sin. But they do it nicely. Pola Negri, as the wife of a German count, takes a train from Berlin to Vienna, meets a musician, stops off to spend a night of love. Soon she hears that her train was wrecked before it reached Vienna and that she was reported dead. So, seizing opportunity by the hair, she puts on a snow white wig, changes her name, becomes a woman of adventure. Later, her husband meets her, does not recognize her; cinemagoers...