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Dramatic recitations.
"The Dawn."
"The Dawn" is the one-person playlet first employed by Helen Ware. Miss Ware was enabled to get this sketch, if it may be called that, over on the big time through having presented it at another time. The story of a soldier's widow returning to her husband's home, meeting members of his family, setting forth her reasons to find the objections were but fancies of her mind and that she is welcomed for the finish becomes a monotonous series of dramatic recitations, though they turn but 11 minutes. Neither Miss Ray, in any dramatic qualities possessed or as a reader, presented any especial requisite, leaving the act as now composed questionable for small time, where the "spiritualistic" opening and closing of doors to denote entrances and exits may bring laughter from small-time houses instead of furnishing tenseness.
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Variety, 53:10 (01/31/1919)