The blue wall : $b A story of strangeness and struggleChild, Richard Washburn
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The blue wall : $b A story of strangeness and struggle
Child, Richard Washburn
Physicians -- Fiction; Psychological fiction
This is a novelization of the immensely successful play which ran
for two years in New York and Chicago.
The plot of this powerful novel is of a young woman's revenge
directed against her employer who allowed her to be sent to prison
for three years on a charge of theft, of which she was innocent.
WHAT HAPPENED TO MARY. By Robert Carlton Brown. Illustrated with scenes
from the play.
This is a narrative of a young and innocent country girl who is
suddenly thrown into the very heart of New York, "the land of her
dreams," where she is exposed to all sorts of temptations and
dangers.
The story of Mary is being told in moving pictures and played in
theatres all over the world.
THE RETURN OF PETER GRIMM. By David Belasco. Illustrated by John Rae.
This is a novelization of the popular play in which David Warfield,
as Old Peter Grimm, scored such a remarkable success.
The story is spectacular and extremely pathetic but withal,
powerful, both as a book and as a play.
THE GARDEN OF ALLAH. By Robert Hichens.
This novel is an intense, glowing epic of the great desert, sunlit,
barbaric, with its marvelous atmosphere of vastness and loneliness.
It is a book of rapturous beauty, vivid in word painting. The play
has been staged with magnificent cast and gorgeous properties.
BEN HUR. A Tale of the Christ. By General Lew Wallace.
The whole world has placed this famous Religious-Historical Romance
on a height of pre-eminence which no other novel of its time has
reached. The clashing of rivalry and the deepest human passions, the
perfect reproduction of brilliant Roman life, and the tense, fierce
atmosphere of the arena have kept their deep fascination. A
tremendous dramatic success.
BOUGHT AND PAID FOR. By George Broadhurst and Arthur Hornblow.
Illustrated with scenes from the play.
A stupendous arraignment of modern marriage which has created an
interest on the stage that is almost unparalleled. The scenes are
laid in New York, and deal with conditions among both the rich and
poor.
The interest of the story turns on the day-by-day developments which
show the young wife the price she has paid.
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