Word: mummers
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...fallen, a band of gallants and their lady friends come to roister in the tavern of one Prospère. The host has planted actors in the crowd to relate bloodcurdling events, thrill the guests, give them their money's worth. Climax of the satire comes when one mummer, having proclaimed that he has just murdered his wife's lover, finds out that his wife actually has a lover, kills him as he enters the resort...
...hours of unclean fun, the youngest daughter is betrothed to the local vicar's son-whose first appearance in the house was as a customer-and the situation has been clarified to the satisfaction of all. Acting honors were shared by Ferdinand Gottschalk, 61-longtime mummer, playwright (Nanette, The Love Letter)-as Preacher Wampus, and Actress Loftus, 53, onetime variety actress, music hall singer, who once trouped with Sir Henry Irving, Madame Modjeska, Edward H. Sothern, William Faversham. Part of Lost Sheep's revenue or deficit will go into or come out of the pocket of Musicomedian Jack...
...written, musicalized and acted by undergraduates fortunate enough to gain club membership. The largest individual donation ($250,000) to the theatre, which rises like a Norman barn in front of the railroad station, came from Thomas Nesbitt McCarter, '88, president of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. No Triangle mummer himself, the building bears his name...
...mother in this play poisons her daughter who is violently, permanently insane. "I have killed her," she stubbornly cries, although the mummer jury considers the murder kindly and exonerates her of crime. Then she enters a sanatorium to nurse the psychopathic children of other people towards a semblance of sanity...
...limits and taking all of life as its domain. The actor is to become a crusader going into the arena resplendent in the shining armour of his art. He is to fight the great battle with that malignant it otherwise known as human destiny. He is to become a mummer of merely carrying first aid to the wretched and miserable left wounded and bleeding on life's battlefield by the inexorableuess of fate. He is to make kings out of beggars and make a grovelling worm look up at the stars and say proudly: "You are mine...