Word: grocers
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Dates: during 1911-1911
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Finkelstein, D. S., wholesale grocer...
...Scales and the Sword" deals with the conflict between the selfish interest represented by an extortionate suburban grocer, and the social interest, represented by refugees driven from their homes by a great city fire...
...refugees, driven by hunger to purchase food at exorbitant prices, and goaded into violence by the grocer's brutality, are at length supported by the militia, who seize the store under martial law, and distribute bread to the needy. The play is well constructed, and its dramatic effects were well managed. The suggestion of the distant fire as a background for the action of the play was especially effective...
...casts follow: "The Scales and the Sword." "The Scales and the Sword," a social drama in one act, by F. Bishop 2G.: John Alloway, a grocer, W. C. Woodward '12 Ed. Allen, his clerk, J. K. Hodges '14 Dwight Gilmore, attorney at law, K. W. Snyder '14 A Librarian, A. M. Hay '14 A Newsboy, A. A. Berle, Jr., '13 Bill, L. O. Schwab '14 A Drummer, J. W. Boyd 2G. A Mechanic, R. D. Whittemore '13 John, F. M. Totten '12 An Old Irishwoman, Miss Adelia Borden John's Wife, Miss Mary Cooper Another Woman, Miss Caroline Dudley...
...Scales and the Sword," by Farnham Bishop, graduate student, is set in a small grocer's shop on the day of a great fire which upsets the social order of a vast city. It is the tragedy of individual blind selfishness and cupidity shattered against relentless martial...