Word: sweetland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actually, Mr. Coburn is anything but. He is "Samuel Sweetland," a slightly more than middle aged farmer with a married past, and hopes for a matrimonial future. The plot of the play is concerned with his scaly-eyed efforts to obtain a replacement for his dead wife. Mrs. Coburn plays opposite him as Araminta Dench, his super-efficient housekeeper...
...Farmer's Wife. Eden Phillpotts takes you casually by the hand and bids you meet Samuel Sweetland of Devonshire. He bids you meet Mr. Sweetland in that interesting period of later life when he is seeking a wife. He introduces you in passing to the several single ladies of Mr. Sweetland's acquaintance who he believes will promote his placid happiness. For reasons that seem neither good nor sufficient, these ladies one by one give Mr. Sweetland what is vulgarly described as "the air." In the end, Mr. Sweetland's comely housekeeper gives him her promise true...
...Coburn are chiefly concerned as Mr. and the prospective Mrs. Sweetland. They play with an unerring touch for quiet comedy. Summoned to their assistance is a large assembly of deft and balanced capabilities...
...judges were Justice G. McC. Powers of the Supreme Court of Vermont, Justice W. H. Sweetland of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, and Justice E. P. Pierce '12 of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts...
...case was tried before Justice McClellan Powers of the Supreme Court of Vermont, Chief Justice William Howard Sweetland of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, and Justice Edward Peter Pierce of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Devision was made on a basis of delivery, ability to answer questions of the court, citations of cases and briefs...