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...Toulouse lawyer who appropriated and revived it under the reign of Napoleon I, is omitted by the Almanack de Gotha. Pet of the Press, he fell into his last illness when, all in one day, his pet French bulldog Bouboule (last of a series) died and a maid was killed falling downstairs...
...sorry," she said, "but my maid says she danced with several of you young men last night and simply can't bring herself to wait on you. She says she went to a carnival and danced with lots of young gentlemen...
...certain faults the University's other offering, "Blondie of the Follies," has certain incontrovertible merits. Its plot is the outworn story of the successful showgirl, the like of which Miss, Davies has played at least twice, probably oftener, but the lively lines save it. When one sees the Maid Marion in her usual role of a minx, it is clear why her pictures appear so often on the pages of Hearst's Cosmopolitan and in the Boston American. Of course an unfeeling and unsympathetic director made Miss Davies show maternal instinct over a dog, a part difficult to reconcile with...
...left his respectable home to wander over the world. When he returned it was with considerable literary kudos and a mistress. He settled into his family's comfortable life with amazing ease, took up golf, curried favor with the Press, jacked up his prices, tried to kiss the maid, seduced his brother's fiancée, married a widow. Having raised merry Ned in general, he was rescued by his girl just in time for Art, whisked off to Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Rice withdrew his piece after four performances...
...feeling the strength of democracy, peeking over the shoulder of France, so to speak, in order to learn a few more of the battle cries of freedom. A nobleman, Hugh Buckler; with his man, John Buckler; and one of the Prince's paramours, Miss Cowl, with her maid, Marion Evensen; come together in a deserted country inn. Here, in the character and psychology of each, the audience witnesses the clash of the two philosophies of equality and nobility, modified by the individual class and age. It is a brilliant thought, the depicting of this struggle, but perhaps too difficult...