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‘Serving Two Masters”
18 Mins.; Full Stage (Special)
“Serving Two Masters,” written by Ben Barnett is a mystery melodrama, with a suggestion of travesty here and there, but in the main played m a serious dramatic vein. The east holds three characters. Bernard Thornton, who presents the playlet, playing the leading role, that of a young stock broker, Arthur B. BdwardS doing a heavy and Marguerite St. Clair, a “vamp.” It is constructed on the “cut- back” principle. The entire action takes place on a dark stage, the facet and at time the whole persons of the characters being illumined by spotlighting ranging from a “baby” to one of the regulation diameter. These are operated from the wide and front and lend an effective touch, which emphasizes the air of mystery which is the keynote of the piece. The opening is in total darkness, a shot breaking the stillness and followed a second later by a man’s voice phoning to the police someone has been killed. Mr. Thornton is seen at the phone explaining he will give the police a detailed account of the killing.
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Variety, LXI:11, February 4, 1921.