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From the account of the play Stigma, (TIME, Feb. 28, p. 37) : "The maid begets a child." Was this a miracle play...
...husband is away. Will Cynthia please be Celia, just for 48 hours with no questions asked? It is very pressing. Very well, then. . . . Next day Cynthia (now Celia) clutches her newspaper. Celia (now Cynthia) is in a hospital, seriously smashed, unconscious. Ambiguous encounters, a detective, a furtive maid, mesh Cynthia-Celia in mystery. Apparently Celia-Cynthia is a criminal. Cynthia-Celia slowly finds out what kind, at the same time falling in love with the returned husband, who is puzzled but suspects no substitution, . . . Out of such stuff did Greek and Roman comedians fashion oldtime sidesplitters. Sometimes the situations were...
...Lady in Love. In the Restoration Period, an Englishman went to gaol if he got inextricably into debt-unless, of course, he had a daughter to marry off to a miserly spindle-legged monster. Peggy Wood, a maid passing fair, plays the daughter sold to a miser. But she has her consolation-a ruddy ragged redcoat, Captain Bragdon (Gavin Gordon). Who shall cast the first stone when he, disguised as a corpse and wheeled into the boudoir by the order of the fear-stricken husband himself, comes to life and love? Certainly not hearty, round-bellied, wenching Sir Jeremy (Sydney...
Love's Greatest Mistake (William Powell). Apparently it is losing faith in the Beloved, but so jumbled and incoherent is the scenario that anybody's guess will do. There is a shred about "Honey" (Josephine Dunn), a sweet maid from the country; a leering villain of the Metropolis; a proud, penniless architect. There is also Love Divine. The director displayed on the screen a facsimile of the story in Liberty Magazine on which the film is based, thus proving conclusively that the thing really has a plot...
...called it Stigma, produced it himself, acts in it and helps direct. Miss Roos also appears. The youthful hero, a Rhodes scholar, declares all colors and conditions of women are equal in his sight, proves his preaching by practicing it upon a professor's wife and her Negro maid. The maid begets a child, the wife goes crazy, the theory goes wrong. With such material, a play must achieve sublimity or absurdity. The professor's wife amazed everybody near the end by affirming herself a gold lily...