Word: bramson
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Strong. This turgid but powerfully analytical play adapted from the Danish of Karen Bramson stresses the point that Virtue, besides being its own reward, is its own weakness. An old, hunchbacked, club-footed professor, who in addition to going blind has about every other deformity of mind and body, saves a lovely girl from a brutal father, and then clutches at the girl. He forces her to marry him, through weakness and pity, and when she tries to elope with the sculptor she loves, the professor chains her to himself with the intangible but unbreakable bonds of gratitude. The strength...