Word: flancee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another chance, John Cordways the head of the Board of Directors, who takes an interest in the minor transactions of the business quite surprising in such a great captain of industry, when reviewing the case refuses to be lenient and the man is definitely dismissed. Everybody from John's flancee, Lady Clarissa, to the office boy, intercedes for the dismissed man, but the president is obstinate in his refusal. The employees call a mass meeting preparatory to strike and the situation appears to be desperate. The dismissed man's sweetheart visits Lady Clarissa, and obtains her promise that her flance...
Beginning with the second act, then, the play becomes distinctly amusing. The steps by which mother-ridden Eve Orrin, under the guidance of Dr. Brent Janson, gradually gains her independence--while at the same time the Doctor loses his--are skilfully and logically depicted. There is, further, a fair sprinkling...