Word: loved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who love him, I bequeath...
Hardly had Mr. Smith turned away from the microphone when telegraphic notices of donations and congratulations began to arrive. Mrs. A. L. Love of Ottumwa, Iowa, wired: "My compliments-Matthew...
Diplomacy is a game that more than ministers play at, if the exposition of its intricacies in "The Command To Love", now at the Plymouth theatre, is to be believed. Indeed, the fate of a treaty between France and Spain is seen to depend on the success Gaston, the French military attache has in his attentions to Manuela, the wife of the Spanish war minister, who is its chief opponent. The first act sees him committed to this amourous campaign in the name of patriotism; the second carries it on hilariously to the verge of a successful conclusion, and needless...
...executed and entertaining. It soon appears that the wife of the French ambassador has some incriminating letters from her husband's subordinate, the attache, that make the task of this young man more than ordinarily difficult and provide an abundance of embarrassing situations. Epigrams on the nature of virtue, love, and related matters help keep the dialog from sagging after a rather lame beginning, and there is some room for satire of a rather superior brand on the diplomatic profession...
...comedy that witnesses a complete victory of manner over matter, "The Command To Love" provides a pleasant evening's entertainment with a minimum of mental effort...