New Plays in Manhattan
Gold Braid is an unambitious little play which has to do with U. S. Army folk quartered in the Philippines. Playwright Ann Shelby, reported to be the wife of an Army officer and apparently wishing to give everyone in the audience at least a smattering of his or her favorite dramatic cliche, has incorporated in her play a half-caste harlot with a heart of gold, a funny Chinaman, a courtly and misunderstood Castilian, a miserly husband, a disillusioned wife, a black-hearted Moro and various species of parade-ground fauna. Plot:...
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