Word: moraleda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor's Wife" took her husband and Cambridge by the ears Tuesday night, capturing both. There is no formula that can quite explain the extraordinary fascination of this Comedy of Manners (and a Woman) by that swift satirical genius, Jacinto Benavente. For three acts the little province of Moraleda, Spain, hums with petty intrigue, political and domestic; is agog with sycophancy and scandal; nothing is left out. Beauty and the Bull, colors and shrugs flashing lavishly excited and Latin, speech a sparkle and--everybody throws physic to the dogs. For this, let it be urged, is a DeCanterbury Pilgrimage...
...mentally and definite, unmistakable plot which we can thumb. The play is too rapid a frolic for that. And its plot is a bewildering melange of characters and incidents, as episodic carnival rather than a blunt sequence of cause and effect. We encounter no sex problems, no ouija jigglings; Moraleda is Medford, Mass.; or Spoon River before it became a cemetery...
...irresistible, in appearance, in subtle naivete, in ease of carriage and suavity of enunciation she recalls Mrs. Fiske--a Spanish Mrs. Fiske--plus always her own enchanting, voluble self. Mr. Walton Butterfield '20, as Don Santiago, the Governor, and Mr. Harding Scholle ocC., as Don Baldomero, the Multi of Moraleda, are unforgettable characters. Manolo, the "Governor's secretary, finds in Mr. Barton Leach '22 a winning address and, except for a certain insistent springiness of motion, an excellent lover. Mr. C. S. Howard's otherwise admirable Marquis of Torrelodones is marred somewhat by an irritating resemblance to Sam Bernard. This...
...scene is in Moraleda, a supposed provincial capital of Spain. La Menendez, an actress, Miss Eunice Eddy '20 Garces, an actor, J. F. Lincoln '23 Don Santiago, the Governor, Walton Butterfield '20 Dona O., wife of Baldomero, Miss Katherine MacLarnie '21 Esperanza, their daughter, Miss Dorothy R. Googins '22 Don Guillermo, Bertram Little '23 Polito, in love with Esperanzo, Powell Robinson, ocC. Reguera, a man about town, F. S. Stranahan '21 Marquis of Torrelodones, from Madrid, C. S. Howard '20 Don Basilio, rector of the University, R. B. Ayer '21 Jimena, his daughter, Miss Grace Cobb '21 Belisa, his daughter...
...rapid-fire dialogue and ludicrous situations, and presents a most entertaining picture of the provincial Spaniard's attitude on politics and on women. In the first act the many persons in the play are introduced and characterized by the quips and retorts about the tables at a cafe in Moraleda. Don Rosendo, the source of all current gossip, here gives us sidelights on all the notable characters in town...