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...West played the role that she had written about a bygone queen of Manhattan's underworld. Diamond Lil was a harlot whose heart was as big and golden as the enormous swan shaped bed that stood in her elaborate cubicle above Gus Jordan's saloon and brothel. None the less, she was hardboiled; when a Salvation Army captain came to save her soul, she planned to seduce him and when a lady threatened a double cross, Diamond Lil stabbed her in the tenderloin district. Despite her efforts, Gus Jordan, the bowery boss, is caught eventually, for white slave...
...they say in "Hedda Gabler," by the photographic reproduction of a frontier lupinar, if one may be permitted to call it so. Wild ladies of the night held outrageous wassail with officers of the law, and the wicked tinkle of best glasses accompanied the loose music of a brothel piano. Beneath the revelry a vigilant Justice brooded; for Sergeant Mack and his men, though drinking and disorderly were on duty bent. They were present only because it was their function to find out who had shot Tom McGuire, a well known mining boss, depositing his corpse in the alley back...
...state of a jealous husband. The hazard of guessing whether one's wife is faithful or perfidious suggests the title, suggests also Act II in which agitate Andor Tamas (Philip Merivale) imagines that phases of his own marital relations are revealed in sundry characters of a popular-priced brothel. None other than Estelle Winwood plays his uncertain spouse. She also plays the Hungarian Rhapsody on a player-piano that in one performance, at least, failed to synchronize with her fingers. Such embarrassments, eve r-p resent threats in the theatre, are sometimes boons to bored audiences. Future performances should...
...some time this jury lay fallow. The God of Vengeance (in which a brothel keeper hoped to keep his daughter untarnished, only to find her perverted by one of the women in his own establishment) was indicted by the Grand Jury, and the producer and some of the performers fined (1923). Last season William A. Brady voluntarily withdrew his Good Bad Woman after much agitation and a conference with the District Attorney. David Belasco purified his notorious Ladies of the Evening and it was allowed...
...they didn't do that. Hell no! They let Mr. Dreiser, (Ted Dreiser, as some of his cronies playfully call him), spill a bib-full. And what a bib-full! His hero spent pages and pages in a brothel. Yes, boys, he tells you everything about a brothel. And what he doesn't tell you won't matter. But that's nothing! He can write just as much about other things. Sure he can. You forget Ted was a rewrite man for a New York paper. After the hero lets drown his pregnant sweetheart, not wife, whom he wanted...