Word: pong
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...scene of the play is in the Philippines on the Island of Tavolara, which is ruled ostensibly by the avaricious King Philippine, but really by his prime minister, Prince Ping Pong. The King's father, on his death-bed, charged the present monarch to abdicate after reigning twenty-five years, unless he married before the expiration of that period. The twenty-five years expire on the day after the play opens, and the king, worried by the thought of abdicating, is trying to find a wife. He proposes first to Mrs. Sarah Belium, the missionary, and then to her niece...
...King Philippine, however, has other aims. He thinks de Breeze would make a most suitable king and a good husband for Anita, and he tries to bring about the match. The Princess has taken a great liking to de Breeze, so that it seems feasible. By this move, Ping Pong and Chichester see their hopes of securing possession spoiled, and both determine to gain their ends by strategy...
...coincidence they hit on the same scheme. Each disguises himself as king, that he may appoint himself the successor to the throne. Mackintosh, who has orders from Chichester to get the real king out of the way, seizes Ping Pong by mistake. The prisoner escapes only to run headlong into the Englishman. Each takes the other for the king; each discovers his mistake just as the real king enters. Philippine thinks his doubles must be due to over-indulgence in wine. To his great relief, de Breeze comes to the rescue and denounces the conspirators; and the king finds this...
...provisional cast of characters is as follows: King Philippine of Tavolara, J. C. Miller 1L. Prince Ping Pong, his Prime Minister, R. Wellman '03. Taykakaykin Tumi, his secretary plenipotentiary, H. Ohashi, Sp. Lord Cholmondeley Chichester, a banker from Hong Kong, H. F. Hurlburt 1L. McDoolittle Mackintosh, his valet, I. T. Cutter '03. John de Breeze, an American, C. A. McCarthy '03. Father Chartreuse, an Abbot, N. L. Tenney '03. Princess Anita Philippine, the ward of the King, A. S. Proudfoot '02. Mrs. Sarah Bellum, a missionary from Boston, H. L. Wells '02. Marian Hayste, her Niece, F. M. Sawtelle...