Word: barnabetta
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Briefly the comedy shows the effect upon the varied persons of Reinhartz, Pa., of the coming of the superficially absurd, yet clear seeing, deep feeling Susan. She marries Dreary, the swinish skinflint, to help the much-set-upon daughter, Barnabetta. Dreary kindly dies between the acts--having become an insurmountable obstacle in the pursuit of happiness--the step-mother reforms her eccentricities, the daughter casts aside her drudge's guise and blossoms as an Emerson-reading flower of Boston schooling, and in the thrill of the Governor's presence and a lover's kiss the play ends...
Miss Delmar an excellent as Barnabetta--winning, true and never over-drawn either in her happiness or earlier "dumb- ness." Mr. Wilson's Barnaby has not the sureness of Mr. Cope's of last year. In many moments he strikes an almost burlesque note. Every one of the other characters--except perhaps the city people (from Reinhartz's social Eutopia, Reading)--is strikingly individualized by author and actor. Mrs. Fiske's sureness and beauty of voice and diction alone are a rare treat, set in the fresh surroundings of the old Dutch community and in a stage setting in every...
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