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Show " Lady Nicotine's Star Part. 'f .i-i - Why leave Lady Nicotine out of ' 1 1 K the dramatis personae of the mod- i 1 1 ,)' ern drama when she plays such an ' .: ' Important role? She figures large -In the action and situations of ' ' X comedy and tragedy, of farce and '.: , . -I melodrama. She is the silent her- ; ',' - aid of deep thought to be nttered, " ' of an epigram to be delivered. 'A She gives away the villain In the M manner In which she goes up In I . smoke from his sneering lips. She i 1 ;. : 1 helps the comedian put across his .' '.j I "stuff." She fills in gaps in action v' j 'l and in lines. She labels the beau- , ! i tlfnl woman who holds a cigarette ;' '(- 1 , j between her pink fingers or red , i! : Hps as a vamp or an adventuress. ; The male trliler would be nothing : ;.! ' " w-Ithout her help, and the flapper ". , might be mistaken for a sensible i"-'i, I gin. f Lady Nicotine identifies them all. '.:,, S In some plays she hns the star '.i ! part. Why not-put hor name in Uie i (-. -i , cast? Washington Post. |