Word: knights
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Delta Upsilon Fraternity will produce Beaumont and Fletcher's "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" for their annual play. The performance will be patterned as closely as possible on the method of production in use in the Elizabethan period; and therefore no scenery will be used, and a certain number of spectators in costume will have seats on the stage...
Ralph appears in the next scene as a grocer, Don Quixote, the Knight of the Burning Pestle. His master, the citizen, who directs his performance, furnishes him with various wonderful adventures, in all of which he comes to grief. He attempts to assist Humphrey in his love affairs, but is also unsuccessful in that respect, as Jasper wins Luce by having himself carried as dead to Venturewell, by whom he is immediately sent to his daughter's apartments, in order to get her to accept Humphrey. The lovers change places, and Jasper makes his escape as his own ghost. When...
...Knight of the Cumberland...
...clever arguments of his chum, Knight Byrd, "Jimmy" is protected from the wrath of the millionaire Brown. The latter returns to Chicago, a sadder and a wiser man, while Frances Parks and "Jimmy" leave on their happy honeymoon...
...given a magnificent reception. He also accidentally opens a letter to the millionaire from a certain newspaper, requesting a market forecast. James Brown, more commonly known as "Jimmy," is about to disclose the fact that he is not the great man, when he meets an old college chum named Knight Byrd who induces him to keep up the pretence and to manufacture a market forecast for the paper. The letter is written with random carelessness and sent to the paper before the real millionaire arrives. Joshua P. Brown, of course, quickly dethrones Jimmy; but the letter has already done...