Sinners

Sinners (1915), a play by Owen Davis. [Playhouse, 220 perf.] Mary Horton (Alice Brady) leaves her small New Hampshire town and her widowed mother (Emma Dunn) to seek her fortune in New York. She quickly falls in with the wrong company and accepts their immoral ways. Learning that her mother is dying, Mary returns home, where she is determined to keep from her simple, pious mother the truth about her behavior. But the arrival of some of her big city friends does not help matters. Although many critics considered the William A. Brady offering little better than the cheap melodramas Davis had written for A. H. Woods, Davis himself felt it was one of the dramas that marked his emergence as a more serious writer.