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Costa Rica's Gonzales. G. Gonzalez, son of Costa Rica's President Cleto Gonzalez, pleaded, argued, cajoled with Baxter Douglas Boozer and Donald Duke, two U.S. flyers, fellow passengers on the Pan-American Mail liner Colombia, bound for the Canal Zone. At the Canal Zone the flyers intend to fly to Costa Rica. Young Gonzalez wants to go along, to spend Christmas at the Costa Rican presidential palace. But aboard the steamship they would not promise him the trip. There might be an accident; he might be killed. The father Gonzalez would be pained, Costa Ricans vexed...
...seemed the most impressive. For one thing, Mr. Hoover put on his cutaway and high hat for the first time during the trip. Costa Ricans are ceremonious. Then, there was a 70-mile rail trip, climbing most of the way through tropical mountains, to San Jose, the capital. President Cleto Gonzalez Viquez, a bold gentleman with a scholar's brow, delivered perhaps the most sense-making speech of welcome thus far. He warmly and respectfully welcomed "the illustrious statesman and distinguished organizer," referred to the U.S. as a "colossus," acknowledged Costa Rica's debt to the late Chief...
...second act shows us Pepe and Consuelo in their new surroundings. Both they and Don Cleto, Pepe's father, are awed at the appearance of the Cuban servant, Domingo. In an interview with Don Manuel and Don Cleto, who forces an embrace of gratitude upon his son's protector, the true situation apears. But the consequent dismay of the artist's family is again turned to rejoicing by Don Manuel's promise to look out for them all. The cast is as follows: Pepe, a poor young artist of Madrid, M.H. Woolman '09 Consuelo, his wife, G.E. Hyde '09 Pepito...
...magnificent house. It develops later that Pepito is the real nephew, and just as Pepe and Consuelo, his wife, think they must leave Don Manuel, Pepito arrives and the wealthy uncle keeps them all as his own family. The humor of the play revolves about old Don Cleto, Pepe's father, who uses wrong words, mispronounces, and disputes himself, and is always entangled in the mazes of his vocabulary. His efforts to straighten out his words and sentences are very laughable...
...cast of the play is: Pepe, a poor young artist of Madrid, M. K. Woolman '09 Consuelo, his wife, G. E. Hyde '09 Pepito, his friend, H. W. Packer 1L. Dona Paz, Consuelo's mother, J. Murdoch, Jr., 1G. Don Cleto, Pepe's father, G. Rivera, Jr., '09 Don Manuel, Pepito's millionaire uncle from Cuba, E. F. Schwartzenberg 2L. Domingo, negro servant to Don Manuel, D. N. Robinson...