Much of the action in this play is driven by Professor Hobhouse, though he never appears on stage.
Much of the action in this play is driven by Professor Hobhouse, though he never appears on stage. In the first scene of act one, we meet an apple-seller Piny and Lucia who is prevented from playing his barrel organ by the police, while the next scene begins with a character attempting to fix his broken violin. The mentally unstable Judge Gaunt comes looking for Garth, and when Shadow fails to kill him, he's shot and thrown in a river by the gangster Trock. At the end, the young ►lovers Mio and Miriamne vow to expose the truth but are brutally gunned down. FTP, name this 1935 play inspired by the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, a work by Maxwell Anderson.
Much of the action in this play is driven by Professor Hobhouse, though he never appears on stage.
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