Word: sister-in-law
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...patron and alumnus of Andover and Yale. Headed by Architect Charles Adams Platt who designed the building, the Art Committee includes Mr. Cochran and his good friend Mrs. Cornelius Newton (Zaidee Cobb) Bliss. Because he first became interested in art through the efforts of Mrs. Bliss and her sister-in-law, the late Lizzie P. Bliss, Mr. Cochran is believed to have given the gallery as a memorial to Mrs. Keturah Addison Cobb, mother of Mrs. Bliss. Curator is Charles H. Sawyer. Most of the Gallery's choice paintings were selected by Robert G. Mclntyre of Macbeth Galleries...
Miss Chatterton, as Fay, has been mated with the "catch" of the London season, which proves to be Paul Cavanaugh disguised as Ronald Kilkerry. We are given to understand by those in authority at Hollywood that his lordship is infatuated with the sister-in-law of her ladyship; the inevitable lost cigarette-case and characteristic handwriting give the show away to Miss Chatterton before the first hundred feet of celluloid have...
While the Chatterton-Lukas combination is riding on busses and getting wet, his lordship decides to elope with the sister-in-law, and we see him going hell-for-leather through the night. We then hear a crash, and back through the drifting fog comes the distraught figure of the sister-in-law. Next day in the London domicile there is the Chatterton scene, in which her ladyship sacrifices her reputation to save her brother from mortification and despair. We are left with a fleeting glimpse of Mr. Lukas at the wheel of a powerful...
...lives in Paris, but goes to the U. S. to visit his younger brother, who has married a rich Manhattanite and become a respectable U. S. broker. Andre himself has enough money to do nothing, and lives according to his income. But he has Bohemian tastes and his sister-in-law runs him ragged, bores him to death with an interminable succession of highly respectable entertainments. One afternoon Andre, left unguarded for a few minutes, spies a temptingly good and quite empty car in front of the house, hops in and flees down Long Island to lose himself...
...knows it he finds himself in the midst of Long Island Bohemia. Marilyn is in love with a sinister but sentimental racketeer, one-armed Charlie MacRae, who in turn idolizes the slightly shopworn Sheila. Andre likes these people, feels more at home with them than with his socialite sister-in-law, and gives the rest of his days and nights to their rowdy company. He thinks it would be a good thing for MacRae to marry Sheila, and does everything he can to put them together. Unfortunately MacRae discovers that Sheila is not intact, and the revelation is too much...