Friday, May 4, 2018

May 4, 1918 - Mary goes to the movies... again

Mary goes to a lot of movies.  Today she goes to the movies with her sister, Nora, and also Nellie Coughlin.  I have not been able to identify Nellie Coughlin with certainty in available census and other records.

Mary usually identifies the movie and/or theater.  This time she did not other than indicating she "did not enjoy the picture at all."

Perhaps she went to the Arcadia to see Billie Burke in Let's Get a Divorce.  I am not sure why a devout Irish Catholic young woman would go to a movie by that name, but maybe that's why she didn't enjoy it.  Here a partial summary of the plot from  IMDB.
"The Sardou play begins with this girl's life as the young wife of a man nearing forty, kind enough to his bride, but more or less absorbed in his serious work. She has dreamed of romantic love, intoxicating adventure, and tumultuous passions only to find none of these things in retirement with a good husband. She decided that her existence has been wrecked and ruined, and gets it into her foolish head that the only remedy is a divorce. There is a lover handy, her husband's cousin Adhemar, French in his ambition to have an "affair" with some charming married woman, and equally French in his thrift; he is a poor young man in no situation to marry any such extravagant young lady."

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