Word: skinflint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wasps-Nest. Deep in a lonely forest stood a haunted house. No one ever came near it until the night this play was produced. Then there came two train bandits, a southern gentlewoman, a low comedy Negress, a skinflint, a town bum, a lovely girl, a lover and four other friends and enemies of theirs. Scarcely any of them knew anyone else was there; all were caused much uneasiness by noises of others seeking lost papers, pouncing on each other, shooting, screaming. Members of the cast not on salary included an apparition shooting up through the floor, a spectre over...
After all, an old skinflint is much easier to satisfy than a young gold-digger...
...intended to typify the rural life. The Boston Stock Company does not portray theatre country-folk; but goes deeper and gives a sketch of typical country life. In fact, one is not once reminded of the slapstick country rube nor is the comic hired man nor the old skinflint, foiled by the gallantry of the brave hero, dragged painfully into the scenes. The plot, though simple and unimportant, is made interesting by the capable acting of the cast...