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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