Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: May 20, 1929

The First Law. In reality anything might happen if a bearded Bolshevik, a lovely Britisher and her fragile blue-blooded fiance were snowbound for several weeks in a one-room cabin on the Siberian steppes. But in the theatre only one thing would be likely to happen—after both men had been seized with an overwhelming urge for the maiden, one of them would prove a cad, the other would enjoy the cabin as a quasi-nuptial chamber. All this is true of The First Law. Since it was written by Dmitry Schlegov, a Soviet Russian,...

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