Word: cleon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blame is almost fixed on a thug who wants to get married and reform. There is a conventionally kind-hearted police officer; a mother (the arcade proprietress) who will do anything to save her wayward son; and a harsh, wisecracking ingenue of the half-world. Deprived of Cleon Throckmorton's literal setting (arcade equipment supplied by B. Madorsky of Brooklyn), the play would provide nothing of unusual interest...