The Girl Who Went Straight

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

This is a melodrama of low life in New York, as lived by "crooks" and their wives, or mistresses, and by a rascally Deputy Commissioner of Police who abuses his office in order to gratify his lust. One of his victims is a young girl whom he has ruined, and at the hands of whose outraged father he is ultimately punished for his crimes. Another of his intended victims is "the girl who went straight" in spite of her embarrassments by a thief who married her when another wife of his was still alive. This man she believes herself to have murdered, a belief in which she is encouraged by the vile police-officer in order that he may force her to become his mistress. The big scene in the highly-coloured drama is that in the heroine extracts from her half-drunk lover a confession that the real murderer was himself. Crude and Violent in sentiment and situations; but otherwise harmless. Recommended for License. Ernest A.Bendall.