Word: halfwits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complicated plot includes a tender romance between a handsome lord and an innocent miller's daughter, a doubtful marriage, a father's curse, a self-sacrificing lover, an heroic halfwit, and-a happy ending. Flitting in and out of the story is Pittances Green, clown extraordinary, whose puns and drolleries, no less than his outlandish costumes, lighten the play tremendously. The versatile Phillip Bourneuf plays the part to perfection...
...escaping from his governess, hide together in a bear pit. As the evening wears on, Raymond saves the girl from a halfwit who tries to attack her, gets hurt rescuing the child from one of the tigers loosed by the rampaging elephants. The child's parents are so grateful that it begins to look as though the fortunes of his two companions may improve...