Word: zelda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thou Desperate Pilot. Zoe Akins, who loves the refined minority and wrote Declasse, offered this as first of a forthcoming series of plays. The title is derived from Romeo's line on suicide by poison.* Through the intricate entanglements of silken society, Zelda Beale (Miriam Hopkins), U. S. girl, is inveigled into accepting Louis Brant (Charles Henderson), although drawn by love to Lord Eric Hamilton (David Hawthorne). When Brant has broken under the last cocktail, she is free to marry Lord Hamilton, who proves himself very English by rigidly rejecting all conciliatory overtures. So Zelda jumps off the roof...