Billy simply has no use for mothers-in-law, and when his bride informs him that "mother" is coming for a visit, he digs up an excuse concerning a business trip to 'Frisco. It is only camouflage on Billy's part, for his real reason is to meet a couple of lady buyers who are sportively inclined.
Tom Bret
United States
Picture, if you will, a nickelodeon thick with the smell of sawdust and orange peel, the projector’s beam cutting through cigarette haze like a lighthouse swept across a midnight sea. Onto the frayed muslin leaps A Wonderful Night—a 1917 one-reel marvel that clocks in at barely twenty minutes yet leaves the aftertaste...
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Louis Chaudet
Louis Chaudet
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" Picture, if you will, a nickelodeon thick with the smell of sawdust and orange peel, the projector’s beam cutting through cigarette haze like a lighthouse swept across a midnight sea. Onto the frayed muslin leaps A Wonderful Night—a 1917 one-reel marvel that clocks in at barely twenty minutes yet leaves the aftertaste of a three-course feast. William Parsons, that rubber-limbed wizard of understated panic, plays Billy, a man whose allergy to mothers-in-law is so violent it practically manifests..."
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