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...written an entertaining comedy, which presents some rather unusual aspects of modern marriage. The play is interested at appropriate intervals with the sort of fashionable aphorism which all modern English comedies seem to require, and in addition there are a number of good old wise cracks, for the "gout americain." Miss Barrymore is pleasing to the eye and gives an exceedingly finished performance. Miss Verree Teasdale takes the part of Marie Louise, the attractive but inconstant wife and fills the bill admirably. Mr. Aubrey Smith's performance as John, the prominent and unfaithful Harley Street surgeon, was uniformly excellent...
Hard work and an attack of grippe , had greatly weakened him, and his friends, realizing this, instructed attendants to put before him while he was speaking glasses of hot punch (grog americain), instead of the usual glasses of cold, sweetened water...
Besides these men, the Comite Franco-Americain includes the Rector of the University of Paris, and the heads of many of the leading schools...