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Mr. Langley Prologue:—d at Cate 3 ram's Home, New Rochelte, Now York "Ret HIA. room at the Ritz, Evening of the same, duy Act Iite<The tame, 30 minutes Later Tine of Prologue ait 1919 fully guarded from her husband who has shown her that he has no tolerance for this kind of thing. Then the man Devereau, responsible for} her original escapade, appears once more on the scene in the irritating] way which broken threads have of mending themselves and making continuity again. Devereau is at} his old game of luring the flapper} daughter of*Lafe Regan. It gets to an 8 2elock appointment, but Mrs. Regan is there to forestall the, inevitable. What happens thereafter furnishes the gripping part, of tke melodrama—a murder, al wite shielding her husband from! the act, detectives carrying out a weary third degree of cross-examining and finally everything—being patched up more or less satisfactory "This is by the way. What is worthy of more comment than the! action of tke piece is the manner in which it was acted by the American Players on Thursday night. Mrs. Steep as Ann Hunniwell and Mrs. "Late" Regan has her well-deserved following, but never has she been seen in a role so fitting for the charm which she manages to convey across the footlights. Hers is the quiet intensity which gives dignity to sensational drama. She is Als capable of heights of emotionlism in acting, and one scene will out in the minds of those who This was Mrs, Steep's handling of the situation Which she found herself in when, as the wife of the man who had killed the nan to whose chambers she had} Jeome she attempted to take the Dlame for the murder. Mrs, Steep gives distinction to any part, but it fs doubtful if a more suitable one could have been found for her than the ons she portrays in "The Sign} On the Door."
Taking his part as the male char-jeter of excellence was Mr. Courtney whose suavity in the cynical reles is Well-known. to Shanghai audiences. He pictured the waster who the same time had some kind of cade which cropped up on Hix death scene after shot was as near (0
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