Word: denouement
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...once dispatched to the Hague summoning Sherlock Holmes, containing the declaration "money is no object." Intercepting this, the two Americans change their disguise to that of the English detective and his medical friend. They then "discover" the girl and collect the reward. There are other complications the denouement of which is that love triumphs over economics in match-making activities...
Occasional enlivening dialogue and several situations, centering about the telephone, however, add to the effectiveness. But the denouement is completely inadequate and disappointing. The entire audience waited several minutes after the curtain fell on the last act before it realized that the many questions brought up in the course of the play would have to remain unanswered...
...cannot bear to put it aside for a moment. No matter what one's personal reactions are to Wilfred's recantation in the desert, to Dinny's falling in love with him despite everyone's disapproval, to Jack Muskham's meddling in their affairs to picture any other denouement. The answer to the riddle apparently is that "the leopard cannot change his spots...
...next phase of the moon. But the logical French mind can allow no such supernatural fakirs to succeed. One man dies, a newspaper reports the death of another, but that grinning grim reaper is defeated at last by the triumph of reason. This is to say that the denouement allows the hero to marry the heroine, and live happy ever after...
When the militia was called out and the strikers were told to keep back. Red. in order to impress the girl, stepped forward and was shot. With this unfinal denouement the wandering tale wanders...