Word: fiends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to convey something of an actual character to the part she played. She was won over by Richard not so much by her lack of insight, as by his extreme cleverness. She left the impression that she was a woman in the hands of a clever fiend rather than just a puppet. All in all, for a play that is given so infrequently, it was well worth seeing...
...father; Nitro Dugan, the roving yegg, who had presided at the hobo "kangaroo trial" and execution of One Lung Riley, the ex-bum who had turned railroad detective and knew too much; Brother Jonathon, glib medicine-show barker, pretentious charlatan, kindly man of the world; Hypo Sleigh, the dope fiend, under whose crazed imagination the world is like a nightmare under a magnifying glass; Dippy, the pyromaniac, to whom the lighting of a match is like a shot of whiskey; Eddie the pretty pervert, landed in jail because he has over-blackmailed the banker who supports...