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“Behind Closed Doors.” 20 min. F.S. 2 shows. The plot concerns the defalcation of a bank cashier who also is trustee for the estate of the girl whom he desires to marry. The scene takes place in the library of his friend after a gambling bout. The girl in the case was formerly loved by the friend who now desires to protect the defaulter. The girl calls upon him and requests him not to bring his guest into any gambling difficulties on account of his mother and sister, confessing at the same time that her engagement was broken some time before. The play winds up happily and the girl returning to her former lover, the gambler’s good Samaritan. The play is a littler serious, is well written and contains a good many dramatic situations and lines. Arden is quite himself in the part of the hero, and Miss Trautman is very beautiful and takes her part with a good deal of grace and magnetism. Fairchild, as the defaulter, is not so good. The end is rather abrupt. It would have held the interest of the audience considerably longer, and as one critic said, “when the curtain went down, it seemed as if it ought to rise again and the play go on.” The finish was good. Think it will make good with our box crowd for the rest of the week.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 30 April 1906 – 4 February 1907