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Much of the picture deals with the struggle behind the lines; the spirit of the womenfolk, slaves insurrections, and the war's repercussions on the home, Margaret Sulivan contributes her most outstanding, role in an outstanding, if relatively short career, as a charming and rather giddy Southern belle metamorphosed into a fine character by many sorrows. Walter Connolly and Janet Beecher as her father and mother share honors only with Margaret Sulivan. And over Randolph Scott, under inspired direction, makes the role of the pacifist convincing. "So Red the Rose" is worth seeing not only because it has fine actors...
...have heard of an anti-Terra plot. President Vargas effusively assured his host that he knew the rumors to be ridiculous. However, the bomb explosions that nightly interrupted Vargas' sleep in Montevideo made the visiting President uneasy. On the third day the two presidents and their womenfolk went to the races at Montevideo's Hippodrome. The jockey club president invited them upstairs to the buffet for a glass of Yerba Maté. At the head of the stairs they were met by onetime Nationalist Deputy Bernardo Garcia. He pulled out a gun. Somebody jostled his arm. A shot...
Into the vast dining hall of a Manhattan hotel this week thronged 800 conspicuously well-groomed men-all district managers of Prudential Insurance Co. of America. Ostensibly this was to be their. annual, banquet. In balconies, hanging over the railings to watch the eating & drinking better, were the womenfolk. At the speakers' table big, bluff President Edward Dickinson Duffield took his place, and close to him his good old friend, Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, Prudential's longtime consultant on vital statistics. Dr. Hoffman, a frail and fretful oldster, fidgeted as he ate and drank. For President Duffield...
...ancestor killed in the Revolution, was especially upset. She was president of the Ladies Aid Society and there the talk boiled up hottest. Gentle, white-haired Rector Livingston heard about it, of course, but he had been a pastor too long to pay much attention to the chatter of womenfolk. Besides, he had plenty of stanch supporters, and he loved his prim, 205-year-old Caroline Episcopal Church, with the mark of British bullets on its belfry. That was how it began, but it ended last week in court. Rector Livingston, 70, was suing Miss Smith...
...while away the time he whets his scythe, courts the womenfolk of Dodder who find him highly aphrodisiac. Parson Hayhoe's wife, who has lost her only child, lets him love her, as does crazy Sarah Bridle. Best of all he loves Joe Bridle's truelove Susie Dawes. But Susie's depraved father will not let her go with Bridle or with Death: he aims to sell her to rich, sadistic Farmer Mere. After the wedding ceremony Joe Bridle in love's despair hands the deadly parchment back to Death...