Word: procuresses
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...Somerset Maugham's story, has written another spectacular play of foreign parts and strange people. It has a high flavor of sex and a flame of melodrama. China is the general setting, and a Chinese disorderly house the specific. The central character is the vicious old procuress, capably played by Florence Reed. It seems that the English had insulted her at some early point in her existence. Wherefore she got an English child into her house. Pretty soon the English parents arrive. This combination of events naturally gives Miss Reed a red-hot emotional scene, at which the audience hushes...