Word: gaolers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Behrman (The Second Man) wrote the play. Jed Harris, the ill-shaven producer whose perhaps somewhat mercenary pride recently forbade him to present Ina Claire in The Gaoler's Wench, was inclined to think well of Serena. He ordered Robert Edmond Jones to design some sets and procured Ruth Gordon with her soft, broken voice and her abruptly delicate gestures to play the part of a lady who "possessed every imaginable charm of appearance and behavior...
Disembarking at Boston in 1656, Mary Fisher, "a religious maiden," and her companion Ann Austin, Quakers, were welcomed by hangman, by gaoler. The hangman made a public bonfire of all books found in their possession. The gaoler, after examining them for evidence of witchcraft, clapped them into jail, where they lay five weeks. Then the religious maidens were shipped back -to England...