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This sketch entitled “A Woman of the Streets” was sixteen minutes long. The sketch was adapted by Fred F. Schrader.
A French woman (Nellie Elting) and her lover are brought before a magistrate (O’Rourke). She has had a distrust for the law ever since her mother was betrayed by an official and she herself was forced to live on the street. She wears her mother’s engagement ring on her finger. It is revealed that the magistrate is actually her estranged father, who offers to buy the ring in exchange for her silence. She refuses and a violent scuffle ensues in which the magistrate rips the ring from her finger. She leaves in a rage. He then kisses the ring and dismisses the case against her and her lover.
"Monday night the Hammerstein crowd accepted it in silence until the end, when it applauded quite heartily."
This is a very verbose sketch the whole way through. It's Parisian court atmosphere "explodes no bombshell in vaudeville".
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Variety 26:7 (20/04/1912)