Word: morphia
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...nervous shivering, furtive sniffs of coke, and dull-eyed fits of depression, but rather a bright and sunny addict, having a good time with her drugs. In fact the very Pollyanna of snow birds, now singing, now clowning, now whimsical, but always looking on the bright side of morphia. It is, perhaps, the most interesting and innocuous, if the least harrowing of the dope plays, which will take some of the sting out of the current Hearst expose of the narcotic evil. A good antidote and counterblast for the meretricious pity and terror inspired by such dope plays as Morphia...
...least it is easy to recognize. Lowell Sherman has it, and makes the most of it by his incomparable technique. He is at present putting over two mediocre plays at once? Morphia and The Masked Woman? by sheer force of his individuality. Jeanne Eagels has it, although she rather strains for it in Eain, and Helen Menken's youthful fire is responsible for a good deal of the thrill in Seventh Heaven...
...Morphia. Lowell Sherman, master-villain, appears at special matinees in Morphia, Viennese play, in which dope plays a prominent and timely part...
...Woods scores a scoop. He is the first to exploit upon the stage the current excitement about narcotics and the narcotized. On Thursday Mr. Woods produced a Viennese play entitled Morphia, with Lowell Sherman. The play will continue, in matinees, every afternoon save Wednesdays and Saturdays...
Some popular favorites now appearing in Manhattan: Ethel Barrymore (The Laughing Lady); Jane Cowl (Romeo and Juliet); Lenore Ulric (Kiki); Helen Menken ( Seventh Heaven); Glenn Hunter (Merton of the Movies); David Warfield (The Merchant of Venice); Lowell Sherman (The Masked Woman and Morphia); Margaret Lawrence (Secrets); Billie Burke (Rose Briar); Peggy Wood (The Clinging Vine...