Word: cholmondeleys
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...damsels, who sing a chours from "Ruddygore." Next in a solo, Dame Daffodil expresses her glee at the prospect of becoming "a very irascible mother-in-law," and then a final chorus from "Lorraine." This ends the first act, leaving the Misses Daffodil in love with Rev. Milkweed and Cholmondeley, and one of them engaged to the anything but consumptive John Harvard. The voices were all good, especially Harvard's; the acting of Stubbs excellent; the two heroines were sweet enough to eat. Then came a serious break in the play - the entree...
...rescues the forlorn females. The wretched John Harvard mean while has been searching for said forlorn females, and while he is lamenting, the successful lovers followed by both choruses appear. Suddenly Stubbs enters and resigns the claims he has on the fair heroines in favor of Rev. Milkweed and Cholmondeley, Harvard being thus left out in the cold is baited and generally derided and reviled by the chorus to a tune from Ruddygore, and at last decides to perpetuate his name by founding a university labelled with his name, everything being thus brought to a satisfactory conclusion...