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...emotions; the habit gets them into typical difficulties in this picture. A lady aviator (Katharine Hepburn) meets Sir Christopher Strong, M. P. (Colin Clive), at a treasure hunt. He is a faithful husband, she a virgin. This prompts them to have an affaire. Lady Strong (Billie Burke) is distressed. Monica Strong (Helen Chandler) is distressed also, but she is preoccupied about her own romance with a young man of fashion (Ralph Forbes) who is so slow getting a divorce that by the time he is ready to marry Monica, she is ready to kill herself for having misbehaved with...
...they all took up steel shafts. Three years ago they squabbled about sand-wedges. Two years ago they were troubled by the balloon ball. Three weeks ago a new subject for contention arose when Gene Sarazen, British and U. S. Open champion, ill of influenza in a Santa Monica hospital, took it upon himself to suggest that the cups on putting greens be enlarged from 4¼ in. to 8 in. Reason: "A crack player and one just average are playing. The average player puts his ball on the green, say, 20 or 25 feet from the cup. The expert...
...ways in which clever women can endear themselves to men is by playing down to them. Clever men understand this is mere humoring on the clever woman's part, but they like it. E. M. Delafield (née Edmée Elizabeth Monica de la Pasture; now Mrs. Arthur Paul Dashwood) is good at humoring her readers, who liked her Diary of a Provincial Lady, should like The Provincial Lady in London still more...
Separated. Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, crooner, orchestra leader; and Fay Webb Vallee, daughter of Santa Monica's police chief. Reason: incompatibility...
Villain of the piece is that somewhat shopworn old devil, the Victorian Age. Monica, only daughter of anxious parents whose every nerve was strained to do the socially right thing, was in a ticklish position from the very start. By her mother, her friends, her teachers it was dinned into her marrow that the one aim in life of every nice girl was to have & hold a Husband. Potential husbands were scarce, aware of their own value, easily frightened, had to be lured with a mingled sway of coyness and charm. Had Monica only minced down the narrow, correct...