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The sketch entitled “A Light From St. Agnes” was twenty-four minutes long.
Bertha Kalish plays a french prostitute in Louisiana who is converted by a priest named Father Bertund (played by John Booth). He tells her the story of the light of St. Agnes. Her drunk lover then threatens to cut the gems off the statue of St. Agnes in the nearby chapel. Kalish’s character tries to stop him and is strangled and stabbed to death.
The sketch received no less than a dozen curtain calls.
The ending of the play was unsatisfactory and should be re-written to allow Kalish's character to "finish the playlet on her feet." "Mme. Kalish was in good form and brought the climax to a sound silencing point."
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Variety Vol. 25:8 (01/27/1912)