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...about-town, wants to be kissed. The lawyer says his wife is an exception. To prove his point the man-about-town bets $10,000 he can kiss the next woman who comes out on the veranda. Edmund Lowe, Jeanette MacDonold and Roland Young are the principals. Best part: Una Merkel as an insufferable Girl from the South...
...Author. Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson made many a reader weep with his bestseller, If Winter Comes. Four years ago he married Una Rosamond Bristow-Gapper, who wrote to him admiringly on a postcard. Simon is their only child. Other books: This Freedom, One Increasing Purpose, The Uncertain Trumpet, The Clean Heart, The Happy Warrior...
...with which the local constabulary had dispersed a mob of undergraduates who had attempted to enter the university heating plant. Object of entering the heating plant was apparently to blow the whistle, make further disturbance. Cause of this unusual activity: a general student strike, precipitated when Dean of Women Una B. Herrick ruled that all co-eds must be in their dormitories...
...with his conception of it. Ian Keith, as the half-mad, half-drunk actor-assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is as macabre and satanic as a character by Edgar Allan Poe; General Grant (E. Alyn Warren) is good too. Disappointments are the too-pious Robert E. Lee and too-coy Una Merkel as Ann Rutledge...
...black veil and who in the end turns out to be the long-lost mother of one of the characters. There is also an unscrupulous society woman, her evil brother, and a country girl whom an artist from the East finds bathing at dawn in a mountain pool. Blond Una Merkel takes the part of this young girl. That her good looks and slow, intense voice will make her important before long is the only interesting suggestion conveyed by the whole silly business. Typical Wright phraseology: "vipers" (for villains), "little minx" (for heroine), "ablution" (for bath...