Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, rich Brigadier General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt entertained last week His Royal Highness Prince George, youngest son of George V, prior to his sailing on the Cunarder Berengaria for Southampton, home...
Briefly, the plot of this latest Theatre Guild production concerns itself with a prominent Viennese attorney who in the midst of one of those episodes known as "affairs" is confronted with a 17 year old son as evidence of an earlier one. The mother of this lad wants his father to take him under his wing, and the play revolves about the point of whether or not the father shall do this. If he does shall the mother stay with him too? Hardly, thinks the present provider of his bliss. The son, who until this time has led a cloistered...
...will show you that relative to Guild standards of acting that performance was but mediocre. The acting redeems whatever complaints one may have against the play as such. Mr. Lunt as the attorney is admirable, and Miss Fontanne the usual delight. The work of Mr. Montgomery as the dreamy son, and of Lily Cahill as his mother is equally good...
...Barker. George Fitzmaurice directs intelligently and movingly the consequences of a circus-man's proud affection for his son and his fear that circusing will spoil the boy's chance of amounting to something. Highly admired as a stageplay two seasons ago, the story by Kenyon Nicholson is better than most screen-stories; and Milton Sills, the barker, is convincing even when he chokes his girl friend (Betty Compson) for contriving the seduction of his son by one of the carnival ladies (Dorothy Mackaill). Out of the sound device comes barker-lingo; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (the barker...
...Schumann died, that she married her secretary William Rapp "for protection" for herself, eight children. Grand opera took her back. She made music history in Austria, Germany, France, England, the U. S. with her Frecka, Erda, Magdelena, Brangane, Walträute. She divorced Rapp. Then came the War. One son died for Germany. The others fought for the U. S. So did Schumann-Heink, singing. Now she is on a farewell concert...