
Dolly lives with her aunt, who is a seamstress. The child is sent home from school because she has been naughty, and finds her aunt in the act of making a Red Cross costume for a huge mechanical doll.

Lucy Sarver, Clara Beranger
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.accent{color:#C2410C;font-weight:700}.glow{color:#EAB308;text-shadow:0 0 3px #EAB308}.wave{color:#0E7490;font-style:italic} Picture 1918: the world exhales gunpowder lullabies and nickelodeons flicker like votive candles against the dark. Into that hush parachutes Dolly Does Her Bit, a one-reel whimsy that stitches ...

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" .accent{color:#C2410C;font-weight:700}.glow{color:#EAB308;text-shadow:0 0 3px #EAB308}.wave{color:#0E7490;font-style:italic} Picture 1918: the world exhales gunpowder lullabies and nickelodeons flicker like votive candles against the dark. Into that hush parachutes Dolly Does Her Bit, a one-reel whimsy that stitches Peter Pan pluck to wartime thrift, then embroiders the seam with metallic moonlight. You expect moral embroidery; you get a celluloid rebellion stitched by Lucy Sarver and Clara Be..."


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