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...course it is impossible to give the plot of such a play for the management would be about our ears in no time for giving away their little secret. We might say for those who can't wait that Montgomery Stockbridge, hard-hearted financier, is definitely and decently murdered at the outset of the play in his own library. Thereafter it becomes a question of whom to congratulate...
...Story Without a Name." Reported as a prize story, this picture causes chiefly astonishment. It is about as good a picture as the next one but why prizes were presented is obscure. It seizes upon the popular death-ray plot, abducts the U. S. inventor and his heroine under the auspices of a sinister foreign power, and saves them by courtesy of the U. S. Navy in time to preserve the death-ray secret. Agnes Ayres, Antonio Moreno and the dented nose of Louis Wolheim are among those higherup in the cast...
Play Has Brilliant Plot...
Unto this misused and sorry setting, Mr. Purdy, the hapless author, has introduced a plot that is positively brilliant. He has to start with two main characters: Joe Bagley, who has a drygoods store and a tremendous ambition to write editorials for the "Glendale Observer", and Kenneth Dodge, who has been set up by a proud father as associate editor of that paper. But alas, although the father was once a great editor, the son knows not the meaning of pen and paper, but leans rather towards dry goods management. We just couldn't think how Mr. Purdy would...
...girls are added to the plot. The first, a harlot who rejected Hassan, came to him with power and fled when he fell, is an easy part that almost any pretty actress could portray. Accordingly the producers gave it to their most expensive player, Mary Nash. She did what she could with it. The other girl, for whom the King of the Beggars wove his plot, was entrusted wisely to Violet Kemble Cooper, who made it easily the most important role of the play. Randal Ayrton, from London, played Hassan, conventionally, correctly, completely missing the weakness, the beauty, the humanity...