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...endless series of mythical kingdom romances. This one recounts the adventures of the Crown Prince of Belgravia, who gives up his heritage so that he may marry a U. S. citizeness, only to learn that she is in reality the grand duchess he was to have been forced to wed. The whole affair is safely routine with one outstanding exception. For Rudolph Schildkraut, father of the film's leading man, gives such a delightful portrayal of an easy-going and life-loving monarch that he not only wins all the acting honors, but also gives Young April a charming...
...scalped her before his eyes. The hero-perhaps Mr. Curwood as he would like to have been-is golden-haired, steel-sinewed David Rock who, through his attachment to the humanitarian Black Hunter, is suspected of treason by his foppish, malicious French overlords and lives through to wed silken-lashed Anne St. Denis only by the slim width of a tomahawk blade. History pours forth aplenty through the tale, but not more than Mr. Curwood's vast and romantic public can follow. All the characters have Souls, lofty or eternally damned. For each date set down there...
...EXQUISITE PERDITA-E. Barrington-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Who will, may damn her, the unchaste nymph, Perdita Robinson. But there are extenuations. Her husband lavished their little on drink and mistresses. She was only 19 and three years wed unhappily. When brilliant Dick Sheridan heard her as "Juliet" and persuaded gruff David Garrick to train her, she was a desperate girl, desperate enough to keep Sheridan as a brother; virtuous enough, after London was at her feet, to show Sheridan her offers from the rakes and have him compose stinging refusals. Nor did she succumb to the Prince of Wales (George...
Cartoonist "Bud" Fisher is a sea-wed, as is Nora Bayes, comedienne. The question of the legality of their marriages, and that of all other sea-weddings depends upon whether or not the State in which the vessel is documented lists ship masters among persons authorized to wave the linking baton...
...this hectic week, Premier Briand found time to deny once more that he is engaged to be married?after 64 years of bachelorhood. He told reporters of three young Manhattan women who recently sent him a joint proposal?he to choose from their inclosed photographs which he preferred to wed. "I deemed their letter a most charming and delicate attention," said M. Briand, "yet I could not reply without establishing a dangerous precedent . . . helas...