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...flattening a tough guy (Allen Jenkins), wins another bout at a truck drivers' picnic, goes to work as a mechanic, conducts a merry courtship while Grandma Wicks and the nation's police beat the bushes for him. Set-tos with such surrealities as mad Poet Killigrew Shawe (Hugh Herbert) and the truckmen give Gerald's education the final polish. He goes home, gives tyrannical Grandma Wicks a piece of his mind, decides that Mona knows best...
...Story. After his harrying of the late Invincible Armada, Sir Oliver Tressilian has returned to his estate in Cornwall, resolved on a quiet life and marriage with fair Rosamund Godolphin. He is, however, taunted with his former piracy by Rosamund's young brother, Peter, and by Sir John Killigrew, who also wishes to marry Rosamund. Of course the great Sir Walter Raleigh and Hawkins had in their time been pirates and knighted for it by Queen Elizabeth; but Sir Oliver rightly resents the insult and nearly kills Sir John in a duel. Unfortunately young Lionel Tressilian, a scapegrace, kills...
These volumes are supplemented by a small but choice shelf-full of about 100 original quarto plays by Addison, Cibber, Congreve, Davenport, Dryden, Ford, Gay, Killigrew, Lee, Massinger, Minshull, Sedley, Sheridan, Steele, and other writers of lesser importance...
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