Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Item: One faithful, if comic, Chinese servant...
Item: One faithless, if comic, British servant...
Such things are ghastly to contemplate. More ghastly here, perhaps, than in any other mystery play this season. As acted by a goodly troupe including Helen Chandler, heroine, Alan Dinehart, hero, and Clarke Silvernail, Chinese servant, they wring frightened yelps from a trembling audience. Mr. Silvernail's drolleries help to relieve tension at terror stricken moments. On the way home spectators can be heard boasting they didn't believe a word...
...gets the window open. His coat is wrapped around the servant's head. She is helpless and he nearly so. He lowers her out and the crowd catches the body. He crawls out, starts to climb down, slips, tumbles. They catch him too, but his shirt is steaming. His arms and neck are fearfully scorched. He faints...
Next day every one talks about the brave fellow who, while others dithered, plunged in through the burning hall and saved a life. The burned-out neighbors thank him profusely. The servant thanks him. He is a hero, for a while?and then life gets back to routine. The fire becomes a legend...