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400 pp., frontispiece, plates, 20 cm. ; green cloth with light green lettering ; foxed ; front hinge shaken ; LCCN: 29-2379 ; OCLC: 3856181 ; photos from the 1927 film directed by Herbert Brenon featuring H. B. Warner, Mickey McBan, Carmel Myers, an d Nils Asther ; these stills from the picture are all the more interesting since almost all known copies of the original nitrate stock film have been lost ; "Captain Sorrell, awarded the Military Cross, comes home to find his wife packing up to go a way with a new husband. No hysterics and no pleas. The affair is handled naturally. She wants to go because Sorrell has no money. He doesn't want that kind of a woman for a wife, so it's even. In scrupulously formal attire, top hat, frock coat, cane and gloves, the Captain looks for a job as sales manager. He can't get it. He becomes a hotel porter. That is no exaggeration. It is only too true, even if they don't like the idea in England. Flo Palfrey (Carmen Myers) was Sorrell's first boss. Sh e scrutinized the Captain carefully. He is obviously a gentleman and she is a bad girl. The idea of being able to order a British officer around, making him clean spittoons and wash the floors, appeals. The manner in which Miss Myers handles this sc ene is great, and for that reason it is doubtful if it will pass uncensored. Flo finally gets her hubby drunk and the Captain in her room wiping a mirror late at night. She is in a disturbing state of undress but Sorrell walks out on her and it cost s him his job. Through it all the father and son theme is never once relegated to the background. They're pals. Kit grows up a famous surgeon and then mother puts in a claim for her son's affections. She shows him night life in London, even framing a dame on him. But the boy can't see her as anything but a drunken old woman trying to be young again and he leaves."--Review from Variety, November 16, 1927 ; scuffs and two small marks on covers ; FAIR. Seller Inventory # 2480
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