Word: delgados
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...tells the tale of two twin sisters, Pearl and Ruby Delgado, who, it develops, have but one soul between them, each half the complement of the other. So when Ruby, seeking fame as a pianist in New York, is separated from her sister in London, she finds it impossible to receive her customary inspiration from Pearl, who has just become engaged to the man Ruby loved. The three acts are divided into two scenes each, one in London, one in New York, with careful explanation in the program as to the relative differences in time. At intervals, the sisters indulge...
...audience in no small state of excitement and awaiting the final scene with interest and impatience. The part of the lugubrious Dr. Petch is admirably handled by Randle Ayrton, and Philip Desborough makes an effectively unwelcome lover of Ruby. Clara Sidney and Marie R. Burke deserve commendation as Mrs. Delgado and Mrs. Howland, respectively: the rest of the cast is adequate enough. In spite of its advanced theories, then, "One" is worth seeing,--first, because of its novelty, secondly because of its inevitable awesomeness, and finally because of its powerful emotional passages as interpreted by Miss Starr...