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...Winter sports at Quebec, the hero and the girl start in an airplane. Forced down on a frozen lake, Lionel (Lionel Barrymore has the lead) lopes away on his snowshoes for aid. The blizzard breaks. The girl (Seena Owen) goes snow-blind and wanders into a spider's nest of villains. Fights of varying ferocity follow, airplane rescues, blazing refugees...
...Doves' Nest* Katherine Mansfield Explains Us to Ourselves...
...collection of 21 short stories, six completed, the other 15 left unfinished at the death of their author. The stories are all brief?five, six, eight pages; the longest one, The Doves'Nest (unfinished) runs as many as 15. They have no trimly tailored tightness of plot?cannon cracker climaxes?in fact it is doubtful whether any of our best paying and most financially successful American magazines would consider them worth the buying. And yet they add, if anything, to a reputation that already belongs among the permanent things of English literature?a reputation sustained entirely by exactly such work...
...shoos away from her attractive, gambling husband. But she employs an old, old shoo: she saves money on the side. When the crash comes they depart to hatch a new life out of her nest...
Gloria Swanson: "In the love nest scene for Zaza, my new picture, I broke a record by remaining in tears for five consecutive hours. I ran the whole gamut of emotions, passing rapidly from hate to frenzy, mockery to jealousy and then to bitter contrition...