New Pictures: Aug. 2, 1926

Her Honor the Governor (Pauline Frederick). The term of "Ma" Ferguson in Texas probably inspired this effort; a story of a woman's woes in politics. The governor's son is charged with murder. The executive mother is about to pardon him when it appears that he is an illegitimate son and she an unmarried mother. Need it be said that both charges are untrue? Need it be said that she retires from politics to the simple married life ? Need it be said that feminists will be furious with the whole thing? Pauline Frederick...

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