Word: warwicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unctuous Robert Warwick appears as a wealthy gentleman who yearns after a lovely virgin (Rose Hobart) but gets instead the wife of one of his friends through her own chicanery in a darkened room. This lady's husband is in turn involved with Mr. Warwick's wife and the virgin moves safely toward matrimony with a gracious man-about-town. The bedroom doors are all well oiled; they function silently, ceaselessly. What philosophy the play contains issues from the mouth of matronly Alison Skipworth as a Long Island Wife of Bath. Early in the evening she observes: "There...
...Died. Warwick Greene, 49, president of New England Oil Refining Co. ; at Boston; after an operation. Onetime (1910-1915) Director of Philippine Public Works, he was Director of Rockefeller Foundation War Relief Commission (1916), served in France and Belgium with the American Red Cross commission...
LIFE'S EBB AND FLOW-Frances, Countess of Warwick-Morrow...
Brookie and Frances led a good life. They knew everybody, they went everywhere; to the Rothschilds' in France, to the Duke of Edinburgh's, to see the Queen in London. At Warwick they kept the castle full of relations and bigwigs, gave sumptuous parties, showed visitors a little elephant that roamed in the house, an ant bear that slept with the Countess...
...Significance. Hierarchical reminiscences are not novel but, in some cases, entertaining. Such is the case with Frances of Warwick's book. Her self-centred, upper-class attitude makes itself pleasant and charming. The Victorian era, now assuming historical prominence, she pictures with fervor and delightful intolerance...