Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beloved Masha, the gypsy. For another, he never told lies, so that rather than commit the wholesale falsification necessary to give his wife a divorce, he pretended to kill himself (he was not brave enough for real suicide) so that she could marry a devoted, comfortable suitor. When Fedya's ruse was discovered years later and he learned that, depending on the courts, he had either to remarry his wife or be exiled with her to Siberia for bigamy, he did find the courage to shoot himself...
...Hollywood Revue, it is the first time her voice has been photographed. She sings with a deep, throaty twang; even her mutterings as Bingo, the jungle girl, do not spoil the effect of her natural vivacity and physical outlines. Silliest shot: fistfight between Bingo's sweetheart and another suitor in a ballroom during a fashionable party...
...Boston who visit a Rogers family in Los Angeles, a subsequent interfamily love affair, and plenty of old jokes about California climate and real estate, the fabric of this play is mere burlap. One shining thread is woven through it in the fat shape of Mrs. Rogers' girlhood suitor who returns wealth, laden with bonbons, declaring: "With me, everything is a message to Garcia...
...rises at 9 o'clock. The play, by Fannie Heaslip Lea, describes the love affairs of two men, two women and a gigolo. Mary Young, expert in the impersonation of giddy dowagers (Dancing Mothers, Gypsy) is beset by the gigolo (Alberto Carrillo), and only escapes when her girlhood suitor (Hugh Miller), upon whom her family had frowned, returns after two decades of desperate forgetfulness in South America. In their hot youth he had gotten the matron with daughter, a hard-boiled maiden who throughout the play symbolizes the modern girl. These conventionalities are accented by pleasant dialog which attains...
Simple was the rest of the story-only the happy ending remained. For, much as Hostess Patton may at first have questioned the story of riches and position to which this middle-aged (Mr. Graustein is 43) suitor referred, she found that the unbelievable was true, that the incredible was a fact. One day (March 14),* in El Paso Tycoon Graustein and Hostess Patton were married, and from Roseland's hostesses the fairest flower is gone...