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It was censored by the police on its initial performance at the Lyric
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Chinatown to lure soldiers on the way to the front into deserting. He tricks Anne into entering it by forging a message from Betty Benton, but she is rescued by Will and his friends from the AIF. She eventually goes overseas to France, where she tends an injured Will; they are married and she is
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is illustrative of his luck which so far has never deserted him. Many another man would have invented somehing of the sort, hoping to catch the censor’s eye and flopped horribly when he found that collection of individuals looking the other way when the incident appeared.
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Krona trying to kiss Anne against her will. Krona is fired from his job and Mr
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