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White Slave Play of Grim Power Headline

White Slave Play of Grim Power

February 19, 2015by Kathleen Johnson Leave a comment

This 1913 New York Times article discusses white slave play The Lure by George Scarborough, which featured a thrilling rescue scene of a white slave from a brothel. Elizabeth Robins’ […]

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Elizabeth Robins, My Little Sister (1913) by Elizabeth Robins, White Slavery
My Little Sister TItle

My Little Sister Reviews

February 19, 2015by Kathleen Johnson Leave a comment

Promoted as one of the most widely read books of 1913, My Little Sister received much press when it was published both in the U.S. and in the UK (Under […]

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Elizabeth Robins, My Little Sister (1913) by Elizabeth Robins, Prostitution, White Slavery
50,000 Girls Disappear headline

50,000 Girls Disappear a Year

February 19, 2015by Kathleen Johnson Leave a comment

An article in the New York Times in 1913 made the dubious claim that over 50,000 girls were abducted each year when they migrated to cities.  This is just one […]

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Immigration, Prostitution, White Slavery

The Fight (1913) by Bayard Veiller

February 19, 2015by Kathleen Johnson Leave a comment

Part of the 1913 – 1914 season of white slave plays, The Fight offered a thrilling brothel rescue scene, a feminist protagonist, and unveiled political corruption.  It was ultimately censored […]

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The Fight by Bayard Veiller
Frohman has New English Plays

Frohman Announces Production of My Little Sister

February 19, 2015by Kathleen Johnson Leave a comment

New York Producer Charles Frohman announced in 1913 that he was staging Elizabeth Robins’ My Little Sister.  His associate, Alf Hayman, made a well-publicized announcement after returning from Europe that he […]

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Elizabeth Robins, My Little Sister (1913) by Elizabeth Robins, White Slavery
The Story You can't forget

My Little Sister Advertisements

February 19, 2015by Kathleen Johnson Leave a comment

Publicity for the book version of My Little Sister advertised it as “the story you can’t forget.”  Another advertisement proclaimed the book to be “the most widely-discussed novel in New York to-day.” […]

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Elizabeth Robins, My Little Sister (1913) by Elizabeth Robins, White Slavery
Dealers in White Women Thrilling Melo-dramatic Sensation

Dealers in White Women Reviews

December 12, 2014by Kathleen Johnson Leave a comment

This 1904 melodrama by Martin Hurley portrayed the rescue of an unsuspecting daughter from the vice den of a white slaver.  There are three reviews.   Dealers in White Women […]

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Dealers in White Women, White Slavery
Katie Johnson on Set of Rediscovering Kate Carew

Rediscovering Kate Carew

December 11, 2014by Kathleen Johnson Leave a comment

                          Kate Carew was a reporter and caricaturist who reported on white slavery, among other topics, in 1910. […]

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Current Conversations, White Slavery
My Little Sister

Evelyn Nesbit in My Little Sister (1919)

December 9, 2014by Tory Lowe Leave a comment

This review of the film adaptation of Elisabeth Robins’ My Little Sister (1919) appeared in the magazine Moving Picture World. The review describes the “sensation” the play caused upon its […]

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Actresses & Actors, Elizabeth Robins, Evelyn Nesbit, Film Analyses, My Little Sister (1913) by Elizabeth Robins
Fay Bainter Biography Part 1

Fay Bainter’s Biography

December 7, 2014by Kathleen Johnson Leave a comment

This biography of Fay Bainter appeared in the fan magazine Hollywood in 1938 to promote Bainter’s Academy Award-winning performance in Jezebel (1938). The biography makes mention of her star-making role […]

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Fay Bainter

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SEX FOR SALE: SIX PROGRESSIVE-ERA BROTHEL DRAMAS

Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900 – 1920

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