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...calculated to have a more disastrous effect than most upon morally malleable persons who witness it. Joan Crawford, again a brunette, impersonates the mistress of a thriving politician (Clark Gable). Rich, wilful and ingratiating, he gives her the trite benefits of illicit love-an apartment with glass doors, a maid-of-all-work, fine clothes, European travel and an education in social politeness. These make an unsophisticated admirer, when they meet again, mistake her for a lady. After three years of pleasurable intimacy, Gable is threatened by a scandal. His mistress has been ennobled by experience and she defends...
...reputedly based on the brief Nightingale biography in cadaverous Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians. Between the play and the Strachey piece, however, there are noticeable differences in characterization and fact. To Playwright Berkeley, Nurse Nightingale, reverently and somewhat palely acted by Edith Evans, is a sort of Maid of Orleans. He acknowledges "securing aid and authorization of Miss Nightingale's relatives." To Mr. Strachey, however, Florence Nightingale was more like the kind of person Carrie Nation might have turned out to be had she been interested in caring for the sick instead of breaking up bars with umbrella...
...Parents' Magazine is not edited by an old maid, but by a happily married woman and a progressive mother of two children, a girl and a boy, aged eight and four, respectively. Mrs. Littledale runs an efficient home of her own and at the same time edits The Parents' Magazine, which is aiding mothers and fathers in more than 200,000 other homes in the rearing of about half a million children...
Jazz Thrill Baby Birth Control Flirtation Unmarried Mother Night Club Victorian Free Love Old Maid Flaming Youth After they have talked and laughed over the "word test," boys & girls may try the "opinion test," deciding quickly whether the statements about drinking, dancing and fornication are true or false. Then they are ready for discussion of problems based upon such questions as these (For girls): What is wrong in spooning, just letting a boy put his arm around you and kissing you? What is "passion"? What if a boy just steals a kiss? (For boys): What sensations (evil) come from spooning...
...Calumet Chuck: the $7,000 Junior Kentucky Futurity trotting race; from Maid McElwyn, who in the second heat set a new world's record for 2-year-olds of 1 mile...