Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acts, the people act just about as all people act in the first two acts of a flapper comedy. The daughter of the house enters carrying a high alcoholic content acquired at a Manhattan bachelor's apartment. The father of the house philanders with females of whom his wife, up to the time her good friend Mrs. Mazareen tells her about it for her own good, knows little. Thereupon the wife lights a cigarette and starts out to plug the domestic puncture by proving that she can be the gayest of the household...
...process, she unfortunately falls in love with the svelt bachelor who has been clogging her daughter's moral passages with cocktails. The bachelor is further complicated by a somewhat inexpensive lady, who is also tangled into the husband's past. The whole combination assembles and there follow two acts...
Helen Hayes is, curiously enough, the featured player, although the play obviously belongs to the mother part. Mary Young accounted for the latter with flashes of distinction. To the cast and the twisted ending (the dancing mother marries the bachelor), the play owes its claims to serious attention...
Finally, he rises. The waiter bows, hopes the dinner has been satisfactory. The distinguished bachelor nods his acknowledgment. He slowly makes...
...distinguished bachelor enjoying his pinnacle...