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Alias Jimmy Valentine
Alias Jimmy Valentine (1910), a play by Paul Armstrong. [Wallack's Theatre, 155 perf.] Lee Randall ( H. B. Warner) is a trusted bank employee who is engaged to Rose Lane ( Laurette Taylor). What neither Rose nor his employers know is that he was once a professional safecracker and is an escaped convict. Detective Doyle ( Frank Monroe) knows, but he lacks the proof that will allow him to arrest Randall, so he dogs Randall's footsteps in hope of evidence. When Rose's young niece, Kitty ( Alma Sedley), is accidentally locked in the bank's vault, Randall is caught in a dilemma. Deciding the youngster's life is worth more than his freedom, he jimmies open the vault. He then walks toward the detective to give himself up, but Doyle turns away and walks out of his life. A fast‐moving, if transparent, melodrama, based on O. Henry's A Retrieved Reformation, the show toured for many seasons and was revived on Broadway in 1921. Armstrong is reputed to have written it at the suggestion of producer Theodore Liebler and to have completed it over a single weekend.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Alias Jimmy Valentine." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Alias Jimmy Valentine." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-AliasJimmyValentine.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Alias Jimmy Valentine." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-AliasJimmyValentine.html |
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Alias Jimmy Valentine
Alias Jimmy Valentine, see Porter, W. S.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Alias Jimmy Valentine." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Alias Jimmy Valentine." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-AliasJimmyValentine.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Alias Jimmy Valentine." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-AliasJimmyValentine.html |
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Valentine, alias Jimmy
Valentine, alias Jimmy, see Porter, W.S.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Valentine, alias Jimmy." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Valentine, alias Jimmy." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-ValentinealiasJimmy.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Valentine, alias Jimmy." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-ValentinealiasJimmy.html |
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