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Word: horsethief (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1933-1933
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...play opens in cheerless Cottage D of a midwestern reform school. Onto this scene is led a collection of small, wary ruffians: Little Deadman ("He won't let nobody touch him"); pudgy Pieface; Horsethief, whose malady is obscure and horrid. Poison mean is Roy Wells (John Drew Colt), ringleader of the potato-peeling "Centipede's Club." Robert Locket (Edwin Philips) is the most sensitive young prisoner, a fact which early bodes him ill. In him Mrs. Sanger, wife of the weak cottage supervisor, takes a strange and unnatural interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 8, 1933 | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

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