Word: crooked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lawful Larceny. As indicated by the title there is a deal of stealing to thicken the plot. Vigorous vampires wriggle from man to man extracting signed checks. Somebody cracks a safe. Then the injured wife sets things right by turning crook and stealing everything back...
...adopting a daughter three ancient bachelors make the error of not beating around in the bushes of her past. Hiding in this shrubbery are a couple of Ossining graduates, 1920462 and 192324½. Social calls are exchanged between the crooks and the girl. She is accused of shielding them from justice. Gun play. The crook with the mashed nose confesses. Virtue triumphs...
Miss Adelyn Bushnell alternately charmed in the roles of Mary Brennan, a crook, and Margaret Waring, an, orphan heiress. She was especially good as the crook impersonating the heiress, but her performance would have been better had she differentiated the two parts...
...Gilbert, the leading man, who has recently incarnated himself as a cowpuncher, a preacher, a crook, and a wardboss, leaves behind him the roles of these necessary sorts of person, and becomes one Reginald Carter, a wholly unnecessary and thoroughly nice young man. Miss Lucille Adams, as Marcia, fills the part of a slight young creature with the required grace; Anna Laying as her sentimental mother borders upon burlesque; Jackson, played by Mark Kent, is himself, no less; Edward Darney, Houston Richards, and Miss Viola Roach perform their parts well; while Ralph Remley again shows himself a master of make...
...grounded report recently that they had rented the Playhouse in Chicago for a summer experiment, with a view to permanent settlement in the West. But Mr. Jewett has denied any such intention, and the manager of the Playhouse has suddenly discovered that he was "taken in" by a clever crook who purported to be Mr. Jewett's personal representative. Is it significant that the Company is playing "Raffles" this week...