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   The high society drama by Zoe Akins opened on 6 October 1919 at the Empire Theatre, produced by Charles Frohman, and ran for 257 performances. Ethel Barrymore played the graceful heroine, Helen, who maintains her poise after she is divorced and loses her social position. Though some snub her, she snubs no one, and even charmingly takes tea with some comic bohemian acrobats, but in a cruel twist of fate, she lies dying (hit by an automobile) just when the long-lost love of her life returns with money to propose marriage.