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...Viner Jean Freeman, Winnetka, Ill.Jacob A. Walker Marion Baird, Montclair, N. J.Edward C. Weren Patricia Drew, West Roxbury, Mass.Donald C. Wetmore Virginia Clapp, CambridgeJohn R. White Nancy Kelly, New YorkRoyal G. Whiting Priscilla Crocker, BrooklineDavid B. Williams Virginia Floyd, MiltonLeonard W. Williams Alice Pinkham, BrooklineGrafton L. Wilson Charlotte Donald, Barnstead, N. Y.Lothrop Withington Jr. Marietta Withington, BrooklineDavid W. Witmer Nancy Wilbur, WinchesterPayson R. Wolff Shirley Merson, Jersey City, N. J.Samuel E. Worthen Eloise Dickey, Atlanta, GeorgiaHoward W. Young Agnes Brown, Newark, N. J.William H. Wood Jr. Virginia Hare, Sharo
...picture opens in Dr. Biff Grimes's dental parlor, where he is tippling with his friend Snappy Downer and thinking how sad he still is because, years before, Virginia Brush got married to rich Hugo Barnstead. Into the office walks Hugo Barnstead, to have a tooth pulled. Biff Grimes grimly turns on the gas, apparently planning to leave it on until Hugo is out of the way. Then comes a long flashback. It shows Biff Grimes, in youth a boastful lout, and Hugo (Neil Hamilton) meeting Virginia (Fay Wray) and her less exciting friend Amy Lind (Frances Fuller...
...crony, a bottle of rye and innumerable repetitions of "in the good old summer time." Biff's imagination reaches sadly back to his youth in another little town. Nostalgia gives way to intemperate anger when he thinks of the injustices he received at the hands of rich Hugo Barnstead. The telephone rings. The affluent Mr. Barnstead is in the hotel just across the street, stricken with toothache. When he appears for treatment there is considerable doubt whether the angry Biff, gas cap in hand, will ever let him out of the operating chair alive. There is a fadeback...
...small, extremely stagey children choosing to remain with kind, gentle Nancy. Not even this situation satisfied Playwright Carl Henkle's taste for the archaic. He also introduced an inarticulate bumpkin who loved Nancy, who found courage to say so just before the final curtain. Margaret Barnstead played Nancy with great earnestness...