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The plot is about a sleepwalking woman.
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"The Discovery."
It's plotted about a candle, held by a woman who is a somnambulist and walks in her sleep, to rob a frail wooden cabinet containing many jewels owned by the wealthy lady who could not afford a midget safe, after having been robbed continuously for a month, as she said. It's plotted about a candle, held by a woman who is a somnambulist and walks in her sleep, to rob a frail wooden cabinet containing many jewels owned by the wealthy lady who could not afford a midget safe, after having been robbed continuously for a month, as she said. That had as much sense to it as when the sleep-walker with the candle entered the parlor one of the men cautioned the others not to awaken her as it might prove fatal, although everybody present then commenced to speak in loud asides that the woman perforce had to sleep through until her son lightly called "Mother" when she awoke. Edgar Allan Woolf wrote the piece. It's also called "A Comedy of Mystery" on the program, but it's one of those things an author who writes as much as Mr. Woolf might turn out once in a while, and an actress like Miss Gordon might reasonably be expected to play as long as it receives bookings, but the only mystery about it is why it is on the big time.
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Variety, 40:1 (09/03/1915)