Word: cairnsmuir
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...sailor imagines his wife to be a straight-laced old maid; while the missionary assumes that her savior is a lecherous young jack-tar. The two do not meet until they return to Scotland some time later, where the girl turns out to be the daughter of Lord Cairnsmuir and the man no mere mariner but the owner of a yacht. Not realizing these facts, the be castled father (acted by Clive) goes forward with plans to find in the town a suitable wench to act as co-respondent in the promised divorce suit. From this last bit of embarrassment...
...play is clumsy throughout, and morally is neither one thing nor another. Due to a mistake probably the property man's and not the author's the inhabitants of Cairnsmuir Castle are seen reading the Boston Traveller, while some of the minor actors are still stuttering for their cues. In all, the play is a disappointment to all of Clive's many friends, who have been hoping that this might be his first step towards bringing back to Boston a regime of nice, clean plays for all the family...
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