Word: gareau
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Several commendable features, however, offset these defects last night. The work of the minor principals was excellent. J. A. Dix '02 as Pierre Paquier, the servant of Granger, was particularly good both in his acting and in his accent. F. W. Morrison '00, as the peasant Mathieu Gareau, was more in character than any of the other actors, and, with the aid of a droll voice, was well qualified to portray the stupid countryman. Dix and Morrison were the only characters who helped the audience realize that a comedy was being played. A. S. Hills '00, who took the part...
...cast: Granger, pedant, A. S. Dixey '02. Chateaufort, capitan, H. B. Stanton '00. Mathieu Gareau, paysan, F. W. Morrison '00. De La Tremblaye, gentilhomme amoureux de la fille du Pedant, B. F. Bell '00. Charlot Granger, fils du Pedant, R. Goelet '02. Corbineli, valet de jeune Granger, fourbe, A. S. Hills '00. Pierre Paquier cuistre Pedant, faisant le plaisant, J. A. Dix '02. Fleury, cousin du Pedant, R. W. Goelet '02. Manon, fille du Pedant, R. B. Bowler '02. Genevote, soeur de M. de la Tremblaye, F. Watson '02. Cuistres...
...college of Beauvais at Paris. The first act opens with an interview between Granger and Chateaufort, the swash buckler of the play, who comes to ask for the hand of Manon, the pedant's daughter. Granger does not want him, wishing to marry Manon to a rich peasant named Gareau, so he tells Chateaufort that he has a rival in La Tremblaye, a gentleman living near the college of Beauvais. Chateaufort goes away breathing threats of vengeance against La Tremblaye. Granger then turns to his own love affairs; for he himself is in love with Genevote, the sister...
...second act Granger declares his love to Genevote in a most pedantic manner. Genevote humors him, and they agree that Granger is to come to Genevote's house with a ladder that night and enter by the window. As soon as they have parted, Gareau, the rich suitor for Manon's hand, arrives, but his wealth proves to be in an inheritance that he is going to get. It has come down to him in the most complicated order of descent that ever existed or was imagined. Gareau was sent away discomfited...
...cast follows: Granger, A. S. Dixey '00. Chateaufort, H. B. Stanton '00. La Trenblaye, B. F. Bell '00. Mathien Gareau, F. W. Morrison '00. Corbineli, A. S. Hills '00. Charlot Granger, R. Goelet '02. Pierre Paquier, J. A. Dix '02. Fleury, R. W. Goelet '02. Manon, R. B. Bowler '02. Genevote, F. Watson '02. Cuistre, J. E. Hunnewell...