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...Theodora Goes Wild (Columbia). When the Lynnfield Literary Society met to ban a best-seller named Sinned Against, pretty Theodora Lynn (Irene Dunne) cast her vote with the rest. No one in Lynnfield knew that, under the nom de plume of Caroline Adams, she had written the book herself. Until its illustrator, Michael Grant (Melvyn Douglas), who had met Theodora on one of her rare trips to New York, arrived in Lynnnfield, there seemed no danger that her double life would be exposed. By good-humored blackmail, Grant compelled Theodora to persuade her maiden aunts to give...
Grant's reason for following Theodora to Lynnfield was to show her that she was inhibited. Having followed Grant to New York, Theodora made it her business to show Grant that he was in the same predicament, only more so. She moved into his apartment, scandalized his family by behaving like an adventuress, contrived to become corespondent in not one divorce suit but two. By this time, Grant's repressions were as thoroughly shattered as her own and the secret of Caroline Adams identity had made red-ink headlines in the Lynnfield Bugle. When Theodora returned there...
...Theodora Goes Wild" is the story of a small town girl (Irene Dunne) who goes to the big city to make good, or rather a mean commercial artist (Melvyn Douglas). He discovered her secret, that she was a writer of smart books, exposed her and dishonored her in her own provincially smug town, and made her fall in love with him; but he was married...
Suit Won. By Mrs. Luard Theodora Wells, first wife of Explorer Grant Carveth Wells; against Mrs. Zetta Robart Wells, his present wife (TIME, April 29); in Bridgeport, Conn. Alleging alienation of affections and misconduct, Mrs. Wells asked $50,000. A jury awarded her $3,000 on the first count, $2,000 on the second...
Sued. Mrs. Zetta Robart Wells, second wife of Grant Carveth Wells, dashing traveler and travel-writer; by Mrs. Luard Theodora Wells, the traveler's first wife; for alienation of affections; in Bridgeport, Conn. Traveler Wells, testifying for wife No. 2, asserted that wife No. 1 beat him with a riding crop, wrote sarcastic letters about his amours, called the birth of their child an obscenity...