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...audiences almost forget that they are witnessing a clever tour de force and dramatic illusion dominates. Rikolnikoff proves to be "just like the rest" and Alice stabs him, unhappily forgetting to remove her scarf from his chambers. Her husband informs her that he has remarried. The telephone conversations become more frenzied and the pace quickens to the hotel detective's hammering on the door. Climax is reached when she eschews an extremely poisonous snake (which she keeps, oddly enough, in her boudoir) - thereby relieving it of all reason for its presence - and hurls herself down 18 floors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 12, 1930 | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

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