Word: nell
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Princess Zim-Zim," a new play by E. B. Sheldon '08, the author of "Salvation Nell," "The Nigger," and "The Boss," will be produced for the first time at the Plymouth Theatre, Boston, Wednesday evening. Dorothy Donnelly who played in "Madame X" last year will take the leading feminine part, and John Barrymore will play the leading male role...
...Nigger" fulfills the promise of "Salvation Nell,"--both good and bad. It is a play full of emotional variation; it thrills the audience and leaves it tired. Excitement is added to horror, and despair to feverish action. Mr. Sheldon exhibits racial hatreds, sinister politics fierce love, and pathetic optimism against a background of a tragic past. It is the story of a Southern governor who discovers that his grandmother was a negress, through the unsolicited investigation of the anti-prohibition interests. Mr. Sheldon has staged the consequences of that discovery with a skiff that is certain, and big with...