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Brook. This offering is described in the exterior electric illumination as an "unusual love play." This is only one-third descriptive; the event concerns love???but it is hardly a play and it is quite slavishly usual. It demonstrates in three acts that primitive love is more directly appealing than the civilized version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Aug. 27, 1923 | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

...natural accidents?a sudden " crush " of Laurel's on the widowed first-love???the revival of an ancient and baseless scandal about Stella herself?made the issue plain. Stella saw that Laurel wasn't her kind? that she herself was the handicap on Laurel's becoming "nice." So she gave Laurel up in the only way that could bring a definite breach between them?let Stephen divorce her and married the wreck of an ex-society-riding-master, a worthy whom Laurel couldn't bear. She smashed Laurel's faith in her, and told her she was going to South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stella Dallas* | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

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