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...plot is an involved attempt to marry a servant to a wealthy old woman. Various subplots and small intrigues are woven in, solely concerned with love or its prevalent imitation. The cast was rather carelessly thrown together with no notable performance offered...
While the wedding-guests danced and laughed, and the vodka flowed like water, Boryna's farm was the scene of piteous, hidden tragedy. Honest Kuba, servant of Boryna, had been induced by the Jew Yanka, his creditor, to poach on the Manor. The forest-keeper had shot him in the leg, and he had not dared tell until the night of the wedding when his agony became unbearable. Drunken Ambrose, examining the wound, told him that amputation at the hospital was his only hope. Kuba, companioned only by a dog, lay in the stable, listening to the sounds of feasting...
...attempt to marry a servant to a wealthy old woman...
...announced that the Palace of Schönborn in Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, had been acquired by the U. S. Government. Henceforward, the U. S. Minister at that city will abide on ground that belongs to his Government in fee simple. One more servant of the State Department will be properly accommodated...
Incidentally, the attendance of the President and Mrs. Coolidge and many of the Diplomatic Corps at the wedding, was, I believe, not only in deference to Mrs. Tuck and her distinguished father, but in respect to a distinguished public servant in the State Department...