Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curtain Cord. While Germans rejoiced at their Government's declaration, there developed out of the affair, a notable scandal at the famed Film and Stage Supper Club, Berlin. The Marchesa Gabriele di Serra Mantschedda entered with two Italian actors and her sister, Maria Orska, the famed and darkly brilliant Russo-Polish actress, long popular in Berlin. While habitues whispered that the Marchesa's Italian husband had recently deserted her and that she was acting as her sister's business manager, she arose, strolled over to the orchestra and tipped the leader heavily to play an Italian Fascist song. Stepping from...
Friends smuggled them out, somehow, while the German comedian, Eugene Bourg, incited a crowd of Berliners to chase them to their hotel. Later the same night Maria Orska quarreled with her sister, informed her that she could hardly carry on with so impolitic a business manager. Next morning the Marchesa di Serra Mantschedda was found swinging from the curtain cord of a window in her apartment. She had hanged herself...
This Congressman Richard S. Aldrich hardly titillates the memory of the average man today. Yet he might well have gone to his brother-in-law and asked for $5,000 as a pension for Mrs. Marshall, his brother-in-law is John D. Rockefeller Jr. But his sister's husband and his sister's father-in-law, potent though they be, were not more noted than his father in the latter's day. For his father was Senator from Rhode Island, Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, one of the giants in the Senate two decades ago. Nelson W. Aldrich, who began life...
...Returning to his father's chateau, he personally took the wheel of a large touring car, into the tonneau of which climbed Wilhelm and Prince Henry. A limousine driven by the former Prince of Hesse drew up and was entered by the Princess of Hesse (the former Kaiser's sister Margaret) and Hermine...
...sisters are centred, both in love with the same man, and all three working in Ginsburg's department store. The pretty sister is winning the man. Inadvertently she gambles away funds entrusted to her by the store's welfare club. It is the other sister's part to get back man and money. Florence Johns, Donald Macdonald and Donald Meek are the best of an excellent cast...