About the show An orphan heiress is targeted by a cousin who plots to have her drowned and claim her fortune. After a sailor rescues and raises her, the cousin engineers the sailor’s imprisonment; a burglary and escape lead to the heiress’s rescue and the villain’s arrest.
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Alternate titles and translations The Shadows of a Great City · English Sources: Wikipedia page identity · Wikipedia source revision · Library of Congress, Manuscript Plays Collection: Copyright Office Drama Deposits, 1870–1973 · The Huntington, Shadows of a Great City: Act II · The Freemason’s Chronicle, 30 July 1887, ‘Shadows of a Great City’ review · Grace Miller White, The Shadows of a Great City (1904), title page · AFI Catalog, The Shadows of a Great City (1915) · Brown, A History of the New York Stage, vol. 2 · The New York Mirror Annual, 1888 · University of Chicago Morton Agency finding aid