Word: exemplicus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best. The acting of E. G. Merrill as Venus and W. K. Brice as Pluto was perhaps the most finished, while that of J. Purdon, as Cupid, the "chronic infant" was the most amusing. C. M. Flandrau, as Mrs. Ceres, I. S. Adams, as Proserpina, and W. Ames, as Exemplicus, also acted their parts excellently...
...play is in two acts. Scene I opens in Arcadia with a chorus of men and maidens singing a bridal song, Proserpina enters and soon after her comes Ceres who tries to persuade Proserpina to marry Exemplicus, the model young man. Proserpina hates him but is finally persuaded and they go off to make arrangements for the wedding. In the meantime Pluto and Venus enter. Venus tells Pluto that Proserpina whom he loves is engaged to Exemplicus. They arrange, however, that Cupid shall wound Proserpina with a dart, and thus cause her to fall in love with the first...
When Proserpina comes on the stage, Cupid wounds her with his dart, Pluto at once declares his love, and as he expected finds it requited. Ceres, Exemplicus and the chorus then come in, all ready for the wedding of Proserpina and Exemplicus. Proserpina tells her mother that she has just captured a prince whereupon Ceres, overjoyed, deserts the cause of Exemplicus and consents that the marriage shall take place at once in Pluto's kingdom of Hades...
...each man should steal a kiss from each maid. This, Pluto points out, would admit the men to Hades, but the maids would still be debarred. Ceres overcomes the difficulty by suggesting that the maids take back their kisses, thereby receiving stolen goods, which of course is a sin. Exemplicus is now the only person left on earth; he declares that he will revenge himself by going to Hades as a missionary...
...scene of the second act is laid in Pluto hotel in Hades, where preparations are being made for the wedding of Pluto and Proserpina. Just as the wedding is about to take place, in comes Exemplicus. He says that he has obtained admission because on earth he was not really good, but only a professional hypocrite. He declares, therefore, that Proserpina, not loving him, had committed no sin, and must go at once back to earth. Everybody is in despair, when Venus enters. To her Pluto tells his troubles. She at once clears up the difficulty by suggesting that they...
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