Word: pallets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story begins in a Kentucky log cabin with one window, one door and a dirt floor. Lying on a pallet of cornhusks and bearskins, on Feb. 12, 1809, a slight, dark, grey-eyed woman with an accented chin and high cheekbones is delivered of a boy baby. A neighbor's kid runs down the road to see. "What you goin' to name him, Nancy?" Nancy Hanks Lincoln says, "Abraham, after his grandfather. . . . Be keerful, Dennis, fur you air the fust boy he's ever seen...
...strike; the search for the girl; the scene on board the ocean liner in which the stunted erstwhile prospector, now in purple and fine sable, lounges on the first cabin, his heart aswoon for a vanished barmaid . . . while down in the steerage the girl tosses on her midnight pallet, wishing for her hobo-brummel. . . .The audience in the Egyptian Theatre made comments on the picture. . . .An epic in comedy . . . Gloria Hale, his new leading lady, a most adept young actress . . . Good support by a comedian named Mack Swain . . . . An epic in comedy, written, directed, acted by a man who understands...
...think that a play along such lines would either read like an essay or flare like a dime novel. As a matter of fact, "Inheritors" does neither. The author, through interesting characterization and many well-known tricks of stage-craft, manages to hold the attention and tickle the mental pallet throughout its entire length. So that when he is through, the reader suddenly finds that he has swallowed a moral pill almost without knowing it. And therein lies the charm...