Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...husband. His deed is discovered and he is summoned before the court, tried, sentenced, and imprisoned. After three years he is freed again and hunts for a job, followed everywhere by the stigma of his prison term. He finds Ruth Honeywill, the woman he loves, the forced mistress of another man, supporting herself and children in this way. The distrust of the police for a former criminal draws him into the net once more and rather than face such misery and degradation, he ends his life...
...role of Janet Kirkaldy, Miss Gilda Leary is sweetly attractive as the seamstress. Miss Viola Gillette is a convincing Mistress Musgrove, and Mr. Barlowe Borland, as Geordic, plays the low comedy part of a Scottish simpleton in a highly laughable manner. The Christic Mucklebacket of Miss Eleanor Daniels, the Sir John Murray of Mr. Jack McGraw, and the Lady Murray of Miss Gilda Leary are all adequate characterizations. Walter Connolly is a competent Dick Lockhart and the minor parts are suitably cast...
...story deals with a jilted man, taking to drink and drugs, and his reformation and rejuvenation by a common "girl of the streets." Complications arise when the girl who has jilted him wants him again. Still loving her, he throws off his old life and with it his mistress. There is an especially strong scene at the end of the third act, when Geoffrey tells Miriam of his decision to leave her. The force of this scene and of the whole play, is marred by the following act which, in an absurdly improbable way, sends the audience homeward...
With the exception of the first act, when her part is considerably overdone, Miss Elsie Ferguson's interpretation of the outcast Miriam is an unusually moving one. Her change from a "street walker" to a "mistress," is excellently portrayed, and throughout the piece she acts her difficult part with considerable eloquence and power. As Geoffrey, David Powell was admirable in the role of a shallow, selfish man. The Hugh, of Warburton Gamble, and the Tony of J. Woodall Birde, were both thoroughly convincing parts. Miss Gillian Scaife, as the insipid Valentine, gave a delightfully pleasant impersonation of a thoroughly unpleasant...
Bagshot, companion to Gibbet, A. Potter '17 Tapster, C. H. Smith '15 Lady Boutiful, H. Francke '15 Dorinda, her daughter, R. H. Norris,, Jr., '17 Mistress Sullen, her daughter-in-law, F. Fremont-Smith '17 Gipsey, their maid, W. B. Breed '17 Cherry, the landlord's daughter, D. F. Fenn...