Word: zander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago, at least, that Carlos the Crook tried to inveigle the lion-hearted Andy Gump into buying fake oil stock. And about a month later the same scoundrel, Carlos, treacherously stole the modest bank roll of the fair Widow Zander...
Sighs of relief can now sweep the literary world, since it is known that Uncle Bim is no longer in danger and that the Widow Zander is no longer in poverty. Let the nearest belfry broadcast the tidings that Uncle Bim retained his money...
...Mamma served to bring Alice Brady back to the stage after years of doing nothing except Zander the Great for a brief season...
...Zander the Great. A lovely nurse girl trying to find among Arizona badmen the father of her tiny ward is the kernel of this tale. It is fed forth with all the usual garnishings of hard riding, sheriffs and a sand storm. Early pictures of the nurse girl struggling to escape from an orphanage had little bearing on the general scheme but were nevertheless the most interesting. Marion Davies is starred and gives an extraordinarily good performance at first, that thins down to the close-up of a lovely maiden type of playing...
George Abbott, recalled agreeably for his comic cowboy in Zander the Great, stepped beyond his depth in the lead. He seemed to manufacture the part instead of living in it. Martha Bryan-Allen gave her usual competent performance as the child; while the single bit of really excellent acting was contributed by Elizabeth Patterson as a black silk mother-in-law of rocky prejudice...