Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...penitentiary in an attempted escape of several convicts. Durgan is pardoned and goes west with his mother to start life over again. There he becomes a successful business man, and is called upon to accept the nomination for mayor of the town. At the proper moment, the local boss confronts Durgan with the facts of his past life, and threatens to publish them, unless Durgan agrees to veto a bill for a new water works, one of the chief issues of the campaign. Durgan, of course, refuses, the boss releases the story by means of Durgan's own phone...
...Carb's "The Voice of the People" differs from most recent plays on the subject of boss-rule in that its realism is not a mere sham. The ordinary political drama shows a boss whose wickedness is monstrous, in conflict with a young reformer whose intelligence and altruism are superhuman. Mr. Carb has bravely faced the truth that the problem is never quite so simple. His young heroine begins as a worshipper of her uncle, the boss Dan Magee, who seems so strong and generous; and only gradually she comes to suspect that the system he personifies is corrupt...
...others were well performed, and showed the effects of good coaching. Mr. Pichel, Mr. Clark, and Mr. Donovan, commendably filled the roles of three well differentiated minor characters. Mr. S. J. Hume, as Magee, was forceful yet restrained, and made both the good and bad traits of the boss stand out very clearly. Miss Jessie MacDonald, in the most difficult part, that of the heroine, did much to carry the play...
...best sense of the word. It draws a picture of a ward in any tenement district of any large city in this country at the time of a closely contested election. Its plot centers about the contest and victory of a young Irish girl over the ward boss, her uncle...
...play is a presentation of the conditions which corrupt politics. The Boss becomes the spokesman of the people he represents--giving them what they want because their wants are his wants--because he is their mouthpiece, and being like them, no better and no worse, he understands them. The scene is laid in a large American city, and the conflict is between the Boss who justifies himself to himself, and his neice who sees clearly the destruction that his altruistic intentions--altruistic though they are avaricious -- precipitate. But from blaming the Boss, she comes to understand that...