Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purposes of historical study are often more faithfully served by a vivid incident than by pages of abstractions: this little memoir illumines America's maritime era. The poverty-stricken mother of Elijah Cobb, a sailor's widow, mothering six, sent him out into the world. At 14 he sailed for Surinam as cook and cabin-boy; he was in command of a brig at 23. The captain of those days was navigator, merchant, banker and diplomatist as occasion required; witness his first voyage to Europe as shipmaster. The year was 1793, when neutrals had few rights. His brig...
...always been in partial eclipse, surpasses his more famous brother. By this it might appear that "The Splendid Crime" is a splendid picture, which it is not, being merely one of those things which go to fill in the spaces between "The Gold Rush" and "The Merry Widow...
Unfortunately the story lost itself with the pearl king among a gang of pickpockets and confidence men, posing as a domestic group. Leatrice Joy, known in Hollywood as the woman who divorced Jack Gilbert before he had played in "The Merry Widow", is chief bandit in this picture. Bad as she may have been, it seemed unnecessarily brutal to make her stand by during a cinematic thunderstorm while her brother, and the rest of the cast, took pot-shots at her. But she scrambled bravely up two or three hundred feet of precipice, as advertised, and reached her destination...
Meanwhile Jezebel was leading her husband a merry chase. Finally the poor rumshop keeper, rising in wrath, fell with the knife of an English sailor in his side. After nine days' mourning, Jezebel blossomed forth in magenta, and the handsome widow was soon an object of hate to all the married women of the island and a landmark of delight to visiting sailor...
Owen Davis is the author and it is not one of his best plays. He tells the story of a wilful and penetrating widow in love with a handsome and promiscuous doctor. Her efforts through the evening are centred on breaking his engagements to two other women and securing him for herself. All this occurs on a houseboat, which is wrecked just before the third act, to further her ambition...