Category Archives: Love & Romance

An Old French Song, by Leo Kober

Life’s span is brief (La vie est brève)

Dreams.…fond belief (Un peu de rêve)

Of love a ray (Un peu d’amour)

And then—good day! (Et puis—bon jour !)

Ah, vain is life (La vie est vaine)

With hate, with strife (Un peu de haine)

Hope looms up bright (Un peu d’espoir)

But then—good night! (Et puis—bon soir !)

DescriptionEnglish: Illustrations by Leo Kober
Date1922
SourceShadowland (https://archive.org/details/shadowland07brew/page/n139/mode/2up?view=theater)
AuthorLeo Kober

When She Saw the Expression…, by R. Van Buren

When she saw the expression that lay in young Major Grantham’s eyes she stopped, almost as though poised for flight
DescriptionEnglish: “When she saw the expression that lay in young Major Grantham’s eyes she stopped, almost as though poised for flight,” by R. Van Buren, illustrating “Miss Dumbbell” by Adela Rogers St. Johns.
Date1922
SourcePhotoplay (https://archive.org/details/phojun22chic/page/n417/mode/2up?view=theater)
AuthorRaeburn van Buren

Let Us Taste Life While We May

DescriptionEnglish: “Let us taste life while we may,” illustrating a scene from His Hour by Elinor Glyn
Date1926
SourceAdvertisement in Motion Picture Classic (https://archive.org/details/motion1724moti/page/n707/mode/2up?view=theater)
AuthorAnonymous

“Doushka,” he whispered. “I hate the Englishman—and life is so short. Let us taste it while we may,” and then he bent and kissed her lips!

Tamara struggled against the intense intoxicating emotion she was experiencing. What frightful tide was this which had swept into her well-ordered life! She vainly put up her arms and tried to push him away, but with each sign of revolt he held her the tighter.

“Darling,” he said softly in her ear. “My little white soul. Do not fight, it is perfectly useless, because I will do what I wish. See, I will be gentle and just caress you, if you do not madden me by trying to resist!”

Then he gathered her right into his arms, and again bent and most tenderly kissed her. All power of movement seemed to desert Tamara. She only knew that she was wildly happy, that this was heaven, and she would wish it never to end.

The whole novel is at Project Gutenberg, if you can take any more.

Husbands Eventually See the Error of Their Ways, by Taskey

DescriptionEnglish: Cartoon by Taskey from a movie magazine. “In the movies husbands eventually see the error of their ways and return happily to their wives.”
Date1924
SourceMotion Picture Magazine (https://archive.org/details/motionpicturemag28brew/page/n179/mode/2up?view=theater)
AuthorHarry LeRoy Taskey

The Beautiful Debutante Spurns Many Wealthy Suitors, by Taskey

DescriptionEnglish: “In the movies—The beautiful and much-sought-after young débutante gives up all her social life and spurns many wealthy suitors so she can live in a little country cottage with the poor boy that she loves”
Date1924
SourceMotion Picture Magazine (https://archive.org/details/motionpicturemag28brew/page/n47/mode/2up)
AuthorHarry LeRoy Taskey