Word: spendthrift
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last week of his stay at the Hollis Mr. John Drew will present Henry Guy Carleton's comedy, "The Butterflies," which was given its initial presentation at the same house last season with marked success. The comedy deals with several interesting social types, and has for its hero a spendthrift Bostonian who rescues a young lady from drowning, and then falls desperately in love with her. The girl's mother repulses the penniless suitor, his creditors pursue him, and he is kept in a peck of trouble, but wins the girl of his choice of course...