Word: sweethearted
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...fanaticism, goaded honest people to the ugly business of hanging human beings suspected of witchcraft. (This was more really indigenous to American ancestry than plots about Indians or Creoles.)* Sheila Meloy (Irene Pavloska) to win the indifferent heart of Arnold Talbot (Charles Hackett), accuses the young man's Puritan sweetheart, Claris Willoughby (Eide Norena) of being possessed. Her evidence: a peculiar birthmark. At the very last minute, the little Irish girl repents, averts a cruel execution...
...would test the devotion of many a sweetheart. No fiancee would get up at 4 A. M. to go a game with a man she wasn't really insane over...
...scene, lures away the unfortunate bride-groom-to-be from the still more unfortunate bride-to-be. Thereafter, come wine, women, and song in hellish profusion-and especially Lya de Putti, vampire extraordinaire. After a little of this, Satan chases the poor young man back to his poor sweetheart and the tenements, evidently to earn that "hour at the gates of Paradise'' which frequent subtitles guaranteed for every soul that resisted him. The Griffith love scenes are always poignant, original, intense; the photography masterful; he seems to make his actors do better than their best. But his screen...
...Night (Laura La Plante). Out of a clear sky comes a call for Frances Norcross to impersonate abducted actress Daphne Dix. Frances' sweetheart, the press, Daphne's husband, are all very much befuddled, to the moderate glee of the audience. Eventually everything clears up, leaving Frances and her fiance the stronger against matrimonial bugaboos by $1,000. Tully Marshall, mouth full of popcorn, represents the press...
...tragic skeleton, at least, is reproduced in true proportions. Morgan Farley throws himself wholeheartedly into the role of Clyde Griffiths, a poor boy who suffers the hard loneliness of being just beyond the pale of all for which he yearns. Unexpectedly, he discovers in Sondra Finchley, beautiful heiress, a sweetheart who will fulfill his dearest, vainest dreams. But in the poor factory girl, Roberta Alden, he has already set up a barrier to marriage with Sondra-the result of a lonely, passionate, summer romance. Too sensitive to break with Roberta, top weak to give up Sondra, he is driven...