Word: tavolara
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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...
...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...
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