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...problems of the Actopels, an ordinary middle-class family, were always true to life and generally funny. Pa, bent with thirty years of toil, has just been made head bookkeeper at the plant --the heart and soul of Cranetown. Horace, the eldest son, has married and is doing well in the export department, while studying psychology by mail. Dolores, his wife and her mother-in-law's echo, is learning to cook. His brother Gordon is on the eve of realizing his ambition: a Phi Beta Kappa Key at the Mid-State University and a job in the teller...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/22/1924 | See Source »

Then the fun begins. Horace is discharged, for practicing his psychology on his department boss; Mr. Actopel has a nervous breakdown as the result; and Gordon is expelled from college for cheating in an examination. The disruption in the house supplies the necessary push to Ruth. Still languid and emotionally listless, she goes off to White Sulphur Springs with Raleigh...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/22/1924 | See Source »

...complete cast follows: Ruth Actopel Miss Elizabeth James Dolores Actopel Miss Mary Sands Mrs. Actopel--"Ma" Miss Doris Halman Mr. Actopel--"Pa" E. P. Goodnow '17 Horace Actopel A. F. Ward Gordon Actopel Harold Bates Raleigh Crane IV C. S. Howard '20 Ellie--"Pennsylvania Dutch maid" Miss Angela Morria Dr. Pfeffer D. W. Keyes '25 Rossiter W. L. Smyser Raleigh Crane III "The Boss" Thomas London

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SELECT WORKSHOP CAST | 12/1/1923 | See Source »

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