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...classic situation of rural melodrama is the moment at which the eloping or otherwise errant heroine is asked to produce her "marriage lines." Lack of such is considered circumstantial evidence of the most damning sort...
...citizens of Sweden do not think so. Their lives are passed in a land where "service" is not advertised but given. From a Swedish telephone operator is expected the sort of unstinted satisfaction which a Swedish housemaid gives by shining the family shoes every day, doing the household wash and energetically scrubbing such members of the family as may deign to take a bath. Last week the telephone companies in Stockholm and Gothenburg announced a new era of luxurious telephoning typically Swedish...
...make, consecutively, 100,000 throws, 100,000 catches, he would become a famed person whom vaudeville patrons would lay down dimes, quarters, halves to see. For any action, no matter how trivial or inane, becomes a heroic achievement, if it is persisted in long enough to constitute some sort of record...
...Briand's physicians endeavored to persuade him that he had contracted a different sort of rash (herpes zoster), but he insisted: C'est les fraises maudites!" ("It is those cursed strawberries...
Tillie the Toiler (Marion Davies, Matt Moore). According to Subtitle-Writer Ralph H. Spence, Tillie is the sort who wears two pairs of garters, "one to hold up her stockings and one to hold up traffic." The minx sets her cap for her wealthy employer, Pennington Fish. To land him she toys with the firm's general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple, a fop, declaring as she proceeds that she "will catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm." In due time, however, all this diabolism is put aside in favor of wholesome matrimony with a sober...