Word: background
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...promise of "Salvation Nell,"--both good and bad. It is a play full of emotional variation; it thrills the audience and leaves it tired. Excitement is added to horror, and despair to feverish action. Mr. Sheldon exhibits racial hatreds, sinister politics fierce love, and pathetic optimism against a background of a tragic past. It is the story of a Southern governor who discovers that his grandmother was a negress, through the unsolicited investigation of the anti-prohibition interests. Mr. Sheldon has staged the consequences of that discovery with a skiff that is certain, and big with the sense...