Word: adolphe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lost-A Wife. Greta Nissen, out of Norway, brings to view her wild blonde hair and perfect poise. Torn from her own engagement party by "Bet-a-Thousand Tony" (Adolph Menjou), she marries him and as instantly loses him to the superior passion of gambling. She rebels, divorces, regains him. She is, in short, victorious over both the audience and her husband...
...Parents People? The week's cheers must be devoted to this discussion of divorce and its denouement. Treated with a light and whimsical varnish of direction, the story of how a schoolgirl reunited her parents stands gaily up as one of the best of the recent films. Adolph Menjou and Florence Vidor are the accomplished parents. But the pick of the character basket falls to Betty Bronson. She plays the young lady with such astonishing ability that all fears that Peter Pan would be her only claim to fame are gratefully laid aside, and another actress of the first...
...Young's co-Trustees are: Julius H. Barnes, Tasker Howard Bliss, Edward K. Bok, John W. Davis, Carter Glass, Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Adolph S. Ochs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George W. Wickersham, Charles W. Eliot, W. H. P. Faunce, John H. Finley...
Petrushka, a ballet about a silly, tragic rag doll with a soul, by Igor Stravinsky, was revived last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. There was only one Russian in the cast. He, Adolph Bolm, took the part of the sawdust Caliban, capered foolishly, pathetically, to his special tune- a fanfare for two trumpets a minor second apart. Rosina Galli was the limber ballerina. At the end of the performance, Mr. Stravinsky was discovered to be present, hailed before the curtain, presented with an overstuffed floral wreath, according to Metropolitan tradition...
...Signed) "ADOLPH S. OCHS...