Word: bordellos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producer) is notable for being the first play to emerge from the sub-professional Federal Theatre as a regular Broadway production. There its distinction ends, for in spite or because of extensive revision by Director Antoinette Perry (Strictly Dishonorable) and her daughter Margaret's determined impersonation of a bordello's ex-cashier who gets a pretentious politician's family in and out of several difficulties, the show struck most critics as being stereotyped, strained, spurious...
LOST SHEEP?What happens when a clergyman's family rent an abandoned bordello (TIME...
LOST SHEEP?What happens when a minister unwittingly rents an abandoned bordello (TIME...
...that his preacher was sufficiently naive to suspect nothing for at least three acts of a play which he called Lost Sheep. Rev. William Wampus, awaiting the completion of a new parish house, moves with his wife (Marie Cecilia ["Cissie"] Loftus) and three comely daughters to a recently abandoned bordello in Higher Hempstead, Middlesex, England. So that the play's double meanings will not elude even the dullest playgoer, Mrs. Wampus continually addresses her daughters as "her girls," and the daughters further the effect by referring to her as "madame." Complications set in as soon as the young...
This profound thesis is considerably diluted in a new drama by Britisher Norman MacOwan which substitutes sentimentalism and pasteboard glamor for the more rugged emphasis of the late great Thomas Carlyle. Actor Leslie Banks is introduced as a penniless Scotsman, living morally and thriftily in the garret of a bordello and studying to be an insurance actuary. Actress Helen Menken is a wan creature who faints on his doorstep. He befriends her to the extent of a bed, a portion of his gruel and the services of a doctor. The backslid daughter of a scholar, she can quote reams...