Word: hari
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play is in two acts, the first laid in and about a summer hotel in Tacoma, Washington, the second in the garden of the Marquis Hari Kari, the Japanese governor of Nagasaki. The plot centres about the endeavors of a young collegian named Wigglesworth to earn an honest living, and his infatuation with May Lifter, the daughter of Thomas Lawson Lifter, a Chicago magnate. His college career is cut short by the villainy of an uncle who robbed him of his money, and he goes west to seek his fortune in Tacoma, where Thomas Lawson Lifter with his two daughters...
...lawyer Smith who takes the possession of the cigarette case as proof that the fortune which he has to bestow should go to Lovewater. The latter, now refunded, takes the same ship with the Lifters and Wigglesworth to Japan. Owing to various complications Wigglesworth is arrested by the Marquis Hari Kari, after the party has arrived in Japan, but the timely arrival of lawyer Smith, who has discovered his mistake, and the identification of Wigglesworth as an American millionaire, bring about the extrication of Wigglesworth from the angry marquis and his happy union with May Lifter...