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Battle of the Sexes. Fifteen years ago D. W. Griffith presented a picture called The Battle of the Sexes starring Dorothy Gish, now refilmed with modern casts and setting and the original story of a businessman harassed by a professional sweetheart and a tearful wife. Bedroom antics by Don Alvarado and the squirmings on a cushioned floor of Miss Phyllis Haver's stomach supplied an element which kept fingers busy in the box-offices of theatres which showed this picture last week...
...Henry tells the one and only lucky typewriter mistake. "Her typewriter began to rattle and jump like a strike-breaker's motor car," wrote O. Henry in his short story, "Springtime a la Carte." . . . How, unable to find her sweetheart in New York . . . her money running low . . . she earned her meals by typing menus . . . and hammered out instead of "Dandelion Greens with Hard-Boiled Egg," "Dearest Walter with Hard-Boiled Egg." And fortunately "Dearest Walter" wandered into the restaurant, found his name on the menu . . . and they lived happily ever after...
POSSIBLY THE AWFULLEST YET is "SWEETHEART LOVE" and MY ANGEL" as conceived and expressed by the Okeh Melodians...
Later, Outcault went to the Herald where he created, in 1902, a little devil in pretty clothes-famed Buster Brown. If children cried for Castoria in those days, they kicked papain the shins for Buster Brown and his sweetheart, Mary Jane, and his dog, Tige...
...Eddie Rosen (George Jessel) does not want to go to war because he does not want the burden of supporting his mother (Clara Langsner) to fall to his sister (Shirley Booth). He is drafted, sent to France. In a Y. M. C. A. hut he meets his onetime sweetheart (Lola Lane), learns she has married Eddie's onetime pal and fellow song-plugger (Raymond Guion), both of whom are singing and dancing for the delectation of the troops. From that point the story fizzles into a sequence of capture by the Germans when Eddie meets in a shell-hole...