Word: wedlock
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...effort to slight none of the great U. S. ideals, George Cohan has promoted or permitted a measly interlude, a song of which the title and refrain are "Personality." Possession. Edgar Selwyn is not a playwright who takes his comedy too lightly. Indeed, in this play of gloomy wedlock and ill-starred infidelities, he preaches a sad sermon with his quips and makes Margaret Lawrence, who usually seems bearable if not entrancing, a monstrous brute of conjugal ferocities. When her bond-broking husband (Walter Connolly) blankets himself with another lady, the wife follows, gnashing threats of duty. All the forces...
Chee-Chee. Such is the babyish title of an Eastern and elaborate musical comedy whose plot depends, not upon romance and cotton-wool, but upon the hero's efforts to avoid castration. The hero is the son, born in early wedlock, of the Grand Eunuch. Not wishing to be his father's successor, he flees the royal city in company with his wife, Chee-Chee. On the road, they are beset by Tartars, monks and brigands who beat the hero and take Chee-Chee off-stage for purposes which can be guessed. Finally the Grand Eunuch catches...
Early Victorian. This daughter had a daughter−out of wedlock−by a respectable village merchant, who kept the child, gentle Mary Anne, and lavished on her wealth, breeding, everything but a legitimate name. Queer, handsome Charles, heir to the Babyons, gave her that, and a son who adored...
...case of James Barrett Johnson, artist, against whom Mrs. Ruth Johnson had a complaint. Mrs. Johnson wished to be divorced; she charged cruelty and said that her husband had neglected, during the nine years of their wedlock, to provide her with flowers and candy. Also, she complained that since she had left his bed and board, James Johnson had pursued her onto street cars and had sent her more flowers and candy than she wanted. Mr. Johnson heard his wife's criticisms with dismay. For himself, he told the court, he loved his wife and desired her return. To this...
...prettier, lazier than her mother; visiting Alice May are her two aunts, Sallie and Natalie, both quite credibly prurient and unattractive. The entrance of Laura Habersham, Mrs. Habersham's second daughter, who has so far forgotten her Southern breeding as to become the mother of a child without wedlock, strikes her mother, sister and aunts like an unaccustomed cold douche. The demure plot of Southern Charm consists of the anticipation and then the actuality of Laura's arrival. But Author Glenn does not overlook the element of charm that prevents her female Southerners from being monsters. This...