Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of the U. S. and his wife lead society. Their doings are always chronicled first in the newspaper society columns. But their social activities are limited to a few official contacts. They do not accept invitations to private homes. They dine out only in Cabinet households, with the Vice President, the Speaker of the House...
...victoria, wears plumed hats, prefers foreigners, particularly Italians. A third Cavedweller is Mrs. Richard H. Townsend possessed of a Pennsylvania R. R. fortune. She has a monster Queen Anne house at Massachusetts & Florida Avenues. She bought for her daughter, Mrs. B. Sumner Welles (Senator Gerry's onetime wife) a $600,000 Russian pearl necklace...
...class by herself is Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, wife of the Speaker of the House. Every Washington door is gladly open to her for her wit and charm. She moves freely through all sets, but her own parties are small, select, intellectualized- except for Mr. Longworth's stories...
...story of the star-crossed love of Paolo for his brother's wife has, however, a certain static lustre in the Phillips version, and Miss Cowl is radiant in her picturization of what is, after all, a minor role. Philip Merivale is a simple and direct Paolo and Guy Standing gives to Giovanni all the sinister quality the verse will allow. Katherine Emmet's Lucrezie also is excellent. But it is not easy to imagine anyone becoming excited enough about it all to telephone his favorite ticket speculator...
...moves lightly, even wittily, and the lady's momentary struggle between her husband's coldness and the impetuosity of the prince takes place against a new and interesting background, handled with laudable control-the tea-plantations of Java. Lewis Stone's urbanity, is rewarded by his wife's decision to stay with him after all, following an episode in which Stone holds the amorous Nils Asther against a tree at the point of his double-barreled tiger-rifle, while a real, terrifying tiger snarls toward the sound-device. Best shot-Greta Garbo drying her feet...