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...amusing circumstances of the play are well set off by a background of modern Madrid. Don Narciso, wishing to make his friend, Don Ramon, believe that he is very attractive to the ladies, invites him to breakfast. Narciso arranges with Juana, a flower girl, to bring in three bouquets, one of roses, one of violets and one of hyacinths. They are supposed to be sent by Rosa, Violante and Jacinta...
When the second bouquet is sent in, Ramon begins to be suspicious. The third bouquet is brought in while Narciso is out interviewing the landlord, and Ramon seizes the opportunity to send notes by Juana to three of his friends in the neighborhood...
...other harmless. Narciso immediately drives him out of the room. The third, El Quidam, proposes that, as his wife is in love with Narciso, he may as well support her and he pretends that he has forgotten his own and his wife's names. At a signal from Ramon, Juana returns with the bouquet of hyacinths, and El Quidam then remembers his wife's name. Don Narciso immediately sees that the tables have been turned and that he is the one who has been fooled...
...Narciso, G. Rivera '09Don Ramon, M. H. Woolman sC.El Capitan, E. F. Schwarzenberg 1LEl Boticario, G. E. Hyde '09El Quidam, R. H. Lord '06Pascual, W. Horn '09Juana, J. Murdoch...
...Hollis street theatre last evening. The scene of the drama is in New York city at the present time. Miss Edsall received a warm welcome and she richly deserved it. The acting was fine especially in the third act. Telfair Pemberton and Simon Grude are typical villains, and Ramon's part is well conceived and well played. Though essentially a serious piece there is a vein of humor running through the whole; and Heloise takes charge of her father very gracefully in the first act. The entire play is interesting, though the last act is a little tiresome...