Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chivalry. The theatrical season suffered another rousing thump on the back when this old-time melodrama landed. It is one of those things about a poor girl who had no chance and ended up by shooting the wicked old employer who introduced her to a life of shameful indolence...
This play however differs sharply in one prominent particular. It is proved that the employer was really a good sort after all (a bit weak, to be sure), and the girl a nasty little schemer. All this comes out in the final courtroom scene where the girl is acquitted by the kindly male jury only to have her attorney (after the verdict was carefully won) turn on them and tell the truth...
Violet Heming played the girl with burning emphasis, and Edmund Breese, staunch veteran, the lawyer...
Legend nourishes the play. Into the spirit of a lovelorn girl enters the spirit of her dead lover, driven from her by the mean ambition of her family. It must be exorcised by mighty, most holy incantation...
...Splendid Crime. Bebe Daniels is always entertaining, and a girl crook who reforms is always" entertaining. And neither is a matter for incoherent eulogy...