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Wall Street. For those who do not know it already and for those who like to hear it repeated, this play dilates upon the fact that in Wall Street there is little or no virtue. Take John H. Perry (Arthur Hohl) for instance. The grime of a Massachusetts truck farm is hardly off him, before he finds himself filthy with the lucre of the "street." It even gets into his blood. He says so himself. The next thing the audience knows, old John H.'s son is discovered hotly engaged in monkey business, for which tactics he is expelled...
...last two acts are naturally a come-down from the great climax of excitement reached in the first half of the play. The acting of Mr. Hohl becomes less convincing; the scene at Sing Sing over-gushes with weepy love and nobleness the conclusion is a surprise which detracts rather than adds. Be- fore the start of the third act many in the audience have unfortunately already divined the manner in which the criminal is finally to be apprehended. This owing partly to a lack of subtlety in the plot and partly to a tell-tale picture which the management...