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Author Johnson, Bill (Playwright), author.

Title Dirty work at the crossroads, or, Tempted, tried and true : a gay nineties melodrama in three acts / by Bill Johnson.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Samuel French, 1942.
©1942

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Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  812.5 JOHNSON    Check Shelf
Description 102 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Physical Medium 8vo. rdabf
Summary This play tells in laughable style the tear jerking story of Nellie Lovelace, an innocent country girl. Munro, the viper, has a wife in Ida Rhinegold, belle of the New Haven Music Halls, but that does not prevent him from pursuing Nellie and tearing her from the arms of her dying mother (whom he has poisoned). Nor does it prevent him from driving Adam Oakhart, the blacksmith's son, to drink, from blackmailing rich Mrs. Asterbilt, or from bewitching her daughter, Leonie. There are a number of places in the plot where old time songs are introduced. The text contains full directions for production. Suggestions for the music, all business tableaux, curtain calls, etc., are there. May be performed by all male or female casts which add to its mirth provoking possibilities.
Subject Young women -- Drama.
Married men -- Drama.
Eighteen nineties -- Drama.
American drama. (OCoLC)fst00806998
Eighteen nineties. (OCoLC)fst00904051
Melodrama. (OCoLC)fst01015770
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Melodramas (Drama) (OCoLC)fst01922469
Melodramas (Drama)
Added Title Dirty work at the crossroads
Tempted, tried and true
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