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Divorced. Gloria Swanson Somborn, cinema actress, by Herbert Somborn, her second husband; in Los Angeles. He charged desertion...
...general readjusting of critical values after the advent of Romola. It began to be admitted publicly, and by great men, that Lillian Gish is the best of all the picture actresses. True, she does not twang the public heart strings as loudly and as often as Gloria Swanson. Yet she has undoubtedly the most distinguished record of the sisterhood?Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, Orphans of the Storm, The White Sister. There are those who say that, with David W. Griffith and Charles Chaplin, she completes the trio of the only true artists of the screen...
Wages of Virtue is another of those tawdry titles which haul the population into the picture houses. Wages of Virtue is one of those few films which return the hauling charge. Gloria Swanson is chiefly responsible...
Algeria inevitably connotes the Foreign Legion; and a dance hall calls for dancing. Of both, full use is made. Gloria Swanson usually means gowns. No gowns are used. She depends on tatters and her talent as an actress...
...Love Story. Gloria Swanson's latest contains only a mild amount of drama but a good deal of Gloria Swanson and will therefore automatically acquire a million or more dollars. Mary Robert Rinehart wrote this one on the sound old theme of the Princess who loved the commoner. Against a purple background of mustachios and gold lace, Miss Swanson again demonstrates that she is quite properly one of the greater figures in the current cinema...