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...modern Spanish comedy by Breton de los Herreros, was the first play given by the Spanish club two years ago. The plot, laid in Madrid, is based on the amusing complications which follow Don Narciso's boast of his popularity with the ladies. To prove this, Narciso arranges with Juana, a flower girl, to bring three bouquets, from Rosa, Violante, and Jacinta, respectively. Ramon, suspecting that all is net right, after the three bouquets have appeared, sends notes by Juana, while Narciso is out of the room, urging three of his friends in the neighborhood to come at once. They...
...cast of characters is as follows: Juana, A.G. de Almeida Sp. Don Narciso G. Rivera '09 Don Ramon, M. H. Woolman '09 E1 Capitan, G. J. Giles Sp. E1 Boticarlo, E. Machado '09 Un Quidam, H. W. Packer 2L. Pascual, W. Horn...
...part of Juana, the coquettish and mischievous flower-girl; whose double-dealings bring about the humorous situation on which the whole play depends, was acted with ease and distinction by J. M. Murdoch, Jr., '06. His graceful movements showed to good effect in a clever pirouet dance which was repeatedly encored...
When the second bouquet is sent in, Ramon begins to be suspicious. The third bouquet is brought in while Narciso is out interviewing the landlord, and Ramon seizes the opportunity to send notes by Juana to three of his friends in the neighborhood...
...other harmless. Narciso immediately drives him out of the room. The third, El Quidam, proposes that, as his wife is in love with Narciso, he may as well support her and he pretends that he has forgotten his own and his wife's names. At a signal from Ramon, Juana returns with the bouquet of hyacinths, and El Quidam then remembers his wife's name. Don Narciso immediately sees that the tables have been turned and that he is the one who has been fooled...