Half a Bride the now important marriage problem ... gives to the screen one of the greatest epics of all times". "Photoplay" magazine called the film "good entertainment". "Motion Picture" magazine wrote, "Gary Cooper is at his best and Esther Ralston is particularly winning." Less impressed with the film, the "Montreal Gazette" described "Half a Bride" as "a rather familiar story told with none too great originality and lacking almost entirely the element of suspense." Half a Bride Half a Bride is a 1928 American silent romance film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, and William Worthington. Based
A House Divided (novel) they are free to follow ancient traditions or foreign customs as they see fit. As they stand at the doorway of the house, Yuan in the same kind of coarse blue cotton clothing his grandfather always wore, he muses, "We two—we two—we need not be afraid of anything." A House Divided (novel) A House Divided (1935) is the sequel to the 1932 novel "Sons", and the third book in "The House of Earth" trilogy, all written by Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck. It centers on the third generation of Wang Lung's family, focusing particularly on his grandson Wang Yuan.