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There can be little question of the morality of the American stage. John Roach Straton, Charles Sumner and the other "reformers" of this wicked world have precluded the survival of any element of general reputability in our amusements. Their activities have put SIN in the headlines and they find themselves powerless to take...
...high society girl is the lowest thing on earth." Dr. John Roach Straton, thunderer of 57th Street, Manhattan, has returned from Europe. Said...
...Mark Kent is wonderful as a brow-beaten, nervous wreck, while Viola Roach, as Mrs. Valentine, is convincing in her indication of how his ruin was accomplished. Except in her sterner moments, Miss Roach's very laugh causes one's hair to stand on end; how Walter Gilbert and Edward Dauney, who are Mr. Paradee and the lawyer, respectively, manage to conceal their agony, and in fact, actually seem to enjoy her fooleries is miraculous. Everything must be forgiven, however, for Mr. Kent's sake. He is not the only good thing about "Rose Briar" by a long shot...
Another attempt was made to remove Dr. John Roach Straton from the pastorate of his Manhattan Church. Proposals to cut his salary from $9,000 to $5,000, to bring in a certain assistant, and various other supposedly antagonistic moves were defeated by Dr. Straton's friends. Dr. Straton is in Europe...
...Bill Poster. An amazing one-reel Hal Roach comedy, guaranteed to take the taste of almost any super-super-super-feature out of one's mind without pain...