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Four O'Clock (by Nan O'Reilly & Rupert Darrell; Charles Henderson, producer') presents in garbled form the sad case of Benita Franklin Bischoff, alias Vivian Gordon, a lady extortionist who was found choked to death in New York City on the eve of giving evidence to Inquisitor Samuel Seabury (TIME, March 9, 1931 et seq.) and whose daughter killed herself after the mother's death revealed the mother's profession. Shooting irons are kept hot throughout most of the performance. Corrupt policemen, gunmen and dope peddlers abound.* A Miss Betty Worth wears some black underwear. Actually, none of this is very exciting.
*Last week the New York police department reinstated three policemen whom the late stoolpigeon Chile Mapocha Acuna, during the Seabury investigation, accused of using him to "frame" women on vice charges. At the same time, ousted Magistrate Jean Norris sued the producers of Four O'Clock, recognizing herself as the "woman judge" referred to in the play.