Salvation Nell
Salvation Nell Author: Edward Sheldon
First Performance: 1908, Providence, Rhode Island
Published: 1967
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: A bar, a tenement apartment, a street corner, New York, early 20th c.
Cast: 27m, 20f, extras
Nell Sanders works long hours as a cleaner in a bar in order to support her lover Jim Platt, a charming but indolent individual, by whom she becomes pregnant. He repays her by constant abuse. Because of his drunkenness, he loses his job and gets into a fight with another drinker who has been pestering Nell, beats and kicks him, finally killing him. Jim is arrested and Nell is sacked from her job. Nell rejects the temptation to become a prostitute and joins the Salvation Army. Eight years later, she is a leading light in the Army and has become close to one of the majors who loves her....
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