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Emma McChesney Seeks Fresh Start On Westward Trip
Emma McChesney, a lady drummer for Featherloom Skirt Co., arrives at a small town hotel. She confronts a pompous desk clerk, contemplates domestic life vs road life, and forms a pact with a fat fellow traveler to quit the road. Meanwhile she imagines kitchen work and glimpses a yearning for stability as music and memory swirl through the scene.
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Frederi Emma McChesney
Jonas Chuzzlewit
Emma McChesney
Lyceum Bureau
M. E. Church
Jenson
Novelty Cloak and Suit Store
Novelty Cloak and Salt Store
Emma
Sunday Supplement
Mendelssohn
Emme
Paderewski
Eve
Swell Set
Lizzie
Ethel
Paris
Nussbaum
DeKalb