Word: valets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...castles in Spain are dangerous places for dalliance. The Spaniard (Ricardo Cortez) who entices her to one, is shot as the betrayer of another girl. Thereupon she decides she really loves her absent husband. Flying to Argentina, she is pursued all the way by the dead man's valet (Lon Chaney) who also practises love-making with her. To gain his ends, he waves an incriminating letter over her for reel after reel. She wears herself and the audience out debating whether to destroy the letter. In the end, husband opens it and forgives everything very firmly...
Only members of his family, physicians and two nurses saw him-so intent was he that the news of his condition should not alarm the country. Even his valet, who shaved him, was not allowed to come to him, and he grew whiskers, for the first time since the days when, as a student at Johns Hopkins, he had cultivated sideburns. He had a phonograph brought to his bedside to minister to his undiminished love of music. Official papers were brought to him, and he signed them with effort, as best he could. After many months he was again able...
...After going to church on Sunday morning, President and Mrs. Coolidge drove in their car to the residence of Arthur Brooks, Negro valet of all the Presidents since Taft, who had been confined to his home by illness...
...salon at the piano. In came my mother and went to the grand. She began to play. Tomy question as to what she was playing she replied, with an abstract gaze, "Schubert's Lob der Tränen" (In Praise of Tears). A few minutes later the valet brought news that father was very ill. Never shall I forget how my mother dashed through the door. . . . When I saw her in later years at rehearsals the festival productions, representing roles as Kundry, Isolde, Sieglinde or Brünilde, my mind often reverted to that moment in Venice. Her impersonation...
...characterizations are very well done. Walter Gilbert is a handsome movie hero; Mark Kent is his valet, who is responsible for the entire action; Adelyn Bushnell plays a screen struck girl who is madly in love with the hero, Garrison Page (in his latest picture, "Huckleberry Harry, the Heartbreaker"). Miss Bushnell and Jill Middleton have an extremely humorous crying dialogue, Hero, maidens in distress, villyuns, a blackmail plot, suspicion,--it was an elegant evening...