Word: mosscrop
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...feud between two Lancashire mill owners, Messrs. Jefferson and Mosscrop, an untoward romance between their respective offspring, Rosie and Reggie, Silas P. Mallinson, an American inventor, whose ingenious little device enables Owner Jefferson to turn the tables, as the saying is, upon Owner Mosscrop,--are the well worn cogs on which this obsolete old piece of dramatic machinery heavily revolves. Needless to say, Owner Jefferson bluntly refuses to countenance the romance, but the combined efforts of Owner Mosscrop who undergoes a sudden reformation of character, of Son Reggie who announces bumptiously that he is full of "grit and determination...
...Clive, as Jefferson, is of, course, very funny, and Charles Vane, as Mosscrop, contributed a genuine bit of acting. But the play was not redeemed by anyone. It is a pity that Inventor Mallinson could not have perfected a few ingenious devices for the plot as well as for the cotton mills about which it centers
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