Word: dipsomaniacal
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Lora Hart, the night nurse, takes a queer case: two little girls, daughters of a millionaire mother, who are wasting away without apparent cause. She soon discovers that the children are anemic from undernourishment. The mother is almost a dipsomaniac. A paternal uncle, the nurse suspects, is a villain who is scheming to get control of the family fortune, has his sister-in-law under his thumb, has bribed the .doctor to let the children die. Nurse Hart, with the help of her bootlegger swain, circumvents the plot, rescues the family at the cost of her professional reputation. Night Nurse...
...Tully's soapy sentimentality. Richard Bennett does most of the acting; Joan Bennett, his daughter and the sister of famed Constance Bennett, is beautiful and well cast as the 16-year-old unfortunate. The truest thing in Jarnegan is the performance, provided by Wynne Gibson, of a dipsomaniac star arriving at the peak of her intoxication; hearing noises in the night, she surmises that the owls are after her; with puzzled insolence she abuses an extra girl and wraps herself wildly in a black lace shawl...