Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unexpected technicality. This frees the hero after he has had the satisfaction of slaying the villain, and consequently causes great rejoicing to all, and no little surprise to the people on the stage, who never seem to expect felicitous endings. As is customary, the villain is a rejected suitor of the heroine, while naturally, the hero is the accepted one. Filled with well-simulated hatred, the villain arranges a charming little scene, in which he murders his double and escapes, leaving the fainting hero to hold the bag, quite loaded down with incriminating evidence. However, after years of imprisonment...
...foundling child to its father. She gets a clue and takes the child to Arizona where the father is conducting business as a prosperous bootlegger. The woman (Alice Brady) decides that such a man is not fit to bring up the child, and resolves to marry her old suitor from New Jersey-when it develops that he, too, is a successful bootlegger. The real father then conforms to the exigencies of the plot by reforming under the beneficent charms of the child. A happy curtain is rung down. The cast is well selected, and Alice Brady, who takes the leading...
Uptown, West. The Japanese husband of an American woman discovers an incipient love affair between his wife and an old suitor, loves his wife sincerely and deeply, and since their baby has just died in an accident, he decides to go secretly back to Japan. Just as he is on the point of leaving, however, he feels an inner urge to see his wife once more. He steals into her bedroom, strangles its occupant, and, rhetorically celebrating the meeting of mother? and child in heaven, commits hara-kari. The acting is uncommonly good...
...Efficiency" has been largely influenced in going to Arabia by the unsuccessful outcome of a love affair with his employer's romantically-inclined adopted daughter, Ella, whose affections have won by the Romeo style of wooing of a new suitor--and adventurer with eyes only for her fortune. Finally disillusioned, she searches for her first lover, despite the attempts of the second to put her off the trail, experiencing a chain of adventures which culminate at the Carnival of Cocoanuts, the annual Arabian Red Cross Festival. In this final scene comes which, it is said, is a dazzling display...