Word: dedlock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady Dedlock. It is hard to make plays out of Dickens. Nonetheless, famed Margaret Anglin thought quite correctly that Bleak House contained the material for a drama and she ordered Paul Kester to trim it into shape. This he tried hard to do; and Actress Anglin played his piece in the provinces, gradually improving it. Last week she thought it was fit for Broadway, and played it there...
Only her husband's solicitor knows this and when it appears that the bastard, now grown into a beautiful girl, is about to marry a handsome member of the Dedlock clan, he croaks his intention of squealing. He has gained his information by the aid of Hortense, a maid, who has good sense and a bad temper...
When Lawyer Tulkinghorn, starting to make good his threats, does not pay for her spying, Hortense shoots him. Lady Dedlock is suspected and dies on her lover's grave; the marriage bells ring in the last...
Margaret Anglin gives a fine performance, both as Hortense and Lady Dedlock; Mr. Tulkinghorn (John Ivancowich) is a snooping, grim figure; and a little woolly dog amuses everyone by bouncing about the stage. As drama, Lady Dedlock is heavy rather than strong, it contains too much...
...little word. The word is "bloody." You can write it, but you can't speak it-at least according to the censor. Another well-known novel will appear in a stage version when Margaret Anglin opens in San Francisco this June with The Great Lady Dedlock (adapted from Dickens' Bleak House) by Paul Kester. Mr. Kester is said to have worked four years on the play. With the decline of the New York theatrical season has come an increase in the use of the "twofer" system by managers who are not yet quite ready to send their attractions...