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Show i Screen Drama of Dual Life Seen at American OLIVE THOMAS takes the role of a young woman who is society leader i by day and notorious crook by night in "Love's Prisoner," which opened yes-terday yes-terday at the American theater. Miss Thomas is supported by Joe King. Briefly, the plot is as follows: Nancy is the daughter of a famous pick- I pocket, and when the old gentleman gets sent off up the river for a stay she is obliged to turn in and support her younger sisters. Leaving them in care of old Jonathan Twist, a jeweler, she gets a job as demonstrator of some new drink in fi drug store, and in this way she meets the wealthy and ancient Lord Cleveland. A proposal of marriage and a wedding shortly follow, and not so long after that Nancy is a widow but without funds. Cleveland's holdings were in England, and Nancy finds that she has no title to them But she determines that the law, the law that has always been again3t her, it seems, shall not force her back to the poverty she once knew. And eo Nancy took her place as a brilliant bril-liant society leader during the ditime and at night, dressed in boy's chnhes, sallies out and robs the rich. Nancy plavs a clever game, but the detective de-tective is cleverer and he finally places her under arrest, after he has found Twist murdered. He is about to accuse her of thlii crime when the pol! inform nim the real murderer has been found. |