Monday, April 17, 1922

Cool, overcast with rain in afternoon and evening. Arose 7 A.M. Breakfast. Out on business in forenoon. Dinner. Out with R.E.N. to deliver plants to sick and shut ins of church. Home. Packed eggs. Supper. To Proctors with Russell.

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This is the first time Stanford has mentioned charitable visits to members of the congregation. He and Russell spent the day together, it seems, although Stanford doesn't say whether Russell Norris packed eggs with him.

The entertainment at Proctor's was substantial, as usual. Here is the ad for the theater in the April 17th newspaper, as well as a more detailed description of the offerings:

I think it's kind of interesting that King Solomon Jr., is set in a future time when congress is made up entirely of women (in 1950, no less!). Boy, were they wrong about that! But wouldn't it make more sense for the women legislators to pass a law allowing polyandry instead of polygamy? Hmmm . . .

The film, Her Husband's Trade Mark, stars a young Gloria Swanson, 23 years before she played Norma Desmond, the has-been actress of the 1950 film, Sunset Boulevard. Below is a poster from the film and a viewer's review. Both are taken from IMDB.

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19 March 2007 | by marcslope (New York, NY) – See all my reviews
She's a society wife in a New York gilded cage bigger than the Time Warner Center, and her shady Wall Street husband keeps pressing her to charm his business prospects, for as some flowery title card informs us, the toughest negotiator can fall to the flame of a comely miss, or something like that. A college buddy of his still in love with Gloria enters into a Mexican oil leasing deal with him, sending the romantic triangle down to Mexico, where some Mexican bandits in unconvincing pancake makeup menace everybody and Gloria realizes what a chump she's been. (This is the kind of movie where who she'll end up with is never in doubt -- the better-looking of the two, of course.) The film was so ridiculous in its portrait of Mexican bandits that Mexico briefly banned all Paramount pictures. There's little subtlety and Gloria isn't much more than a clothes horse, but she has some vivacity, and it's fun to see her at 25 or so playing older and more sophisticated than she was. There's not a trace of Norma Desmond here, and silly as it is, it's a handsome production.