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Security. The ethics of Jane Mapleson (Margaret Anglin) include the familiarly dangerous tenet that evil may be conveniently forgotten when it is not publicly known. Thus when James Mapleson's pregnant paramour commits suicide, Mrs. Mapleson commits perjury in the Coroner's Court and saves her husband. But the remorseful fellow insists on babbling about his sins to his wife and begging her forgiveness. Disgusted, she explains to him her diabolical philosophy of security. Then Jim Mapleson crawls off and shoots himself. The play peters out in a subplot...
This was accomplished and vigorously, too, by presenting the case of a husband whose wife is about to deceive him. The husband prisons his wife and banishes her paramour, so that his son's name may never be smirched by her evil doings. The son, when he grows to lusty manhood, follows his father's footsteps into a similar domestic snare; he, too, when his mother tells him the story of her extra-marital spasm, sends away the lover and insists on honor for his son's sake. His wife refuses to adopt this course...
Weaving, a story around the murder trial of Roxie Hart whose role is very capably played by Fiancine Larrimore, the author burlesques on the recent trials of bobbed-haired bandits and wronged mothers. Roxie is seduced to her own room by her paramour, kills him, and goes on trial with only the women's benefit league, twelve sentimental jurymen and her foolish husband to back...
...uninteresting, drab courtroom scene they saw and it, too, filled up gradually with actors-lawyers, policemen, scrub women, gum-chewing onlookers-who meandered onto the stage as haphazardly as the audience to their seats. Then the Judge rapped for order. Ann Harding, as Mary Dugan, accused of murdering her paramour, was ushered into court. The trial was on. The dull courtroom walls fairly trembled as attorney for the defense and district attorney tore out confessions of shame, innocence, guilt. Gradually the weight of evidence shifts in favor of the defense and when the final curtain falls, the audience, appealed...
...consciousness. It sweeps into his life with bewildering ecstasy, as the music of a symphony orchestra might come suddenly to a chanting savage. Into his world of sound, thus transposed by fancy to a heavenly harmony, intrude the raucous gratings of the boarding house. He hears his mother's paramour beating her. Sound can aim a gun as well as sight. He shoots the man dead. Other murders go on here, too. In another cell a broken-hearted girl is being debauched. Gunmen and detectives prey upon the house. When the smoke clears Mrs. Bowman hangs out her ROOMS...