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...previously given the most lurid account of the alcoholism of this era. Stills, he said, were to be found, in at least one out of every five homes. Parents got drunk in the presence of their children. Wives who tended the stills ended by running away with the "star-boarder." Young girls demanded that their boy friends provide liquor on auto parties, so that immorality at tender ages was prevalent. Once the priest heard a child of three pleading, "Mamma, moonshine...
...steel town the audience is permitted to gaze at one of the most sordidly natural tragedies now open for inspection. It is a man-and-wife tragedy. The man is a drunkard and a beast. The woman is driven into the protecting arms of the family boarder. Vigorously written and vividly performed by Minna Gombell, the part of the girl carries the evening's interest. The saccharine platitudes and copybook virtue of the boarder (Ivan Miller), take the edge off the climax. If he were an individual rather than a clipping from a Y.M.C.A. pamphlet, the play would be decidedly...
...protecting arms of the family boarder...
...star-boarder at the Hotel AdIon...
...copy of the blanks which members sign for regular board: "I hereby sign on for regular board at the Union for one week at seven dollars a week, and agree to give two days notice when I desire to discontinue. (Failure to give such notice means that the boarder will be charged seven dollars for the succeeding week. Persons cannot sign for less than one week...