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...cast of "Minna von Barnhelm" to be given by Mr. Conried's Irving Place Theatre Company on Jan. 22 as follows: Major von Tellhelm, Carl Emmerich. Minna von Barnhelm, Hedwig Lange. Franziska, Maria Eisenhut. Just, Bedienter, Franz Kierschner. Paul Werner, Otto Ottbert. Wirth, Max Hanseler. Wittwe, Marie Kierschner. Diener, Carl Frischer. Feldjager. Jacques Lurian Riccaut de la Marliniere, Semmy Herznam...
Major von Tellhelm, a once prosperous officer in the army of Frederic the Great, has been discharged and reduced to poverty through the refusal of the military authorities to refund without investigation the advances made by him while in service. As a last means of securing money he is obliged to pledge to his landlord a ring which his betrothed, Minna von Barnhelm, a rich heiress of Saxony, had given to him. At the opening of the play Minna von Barnhelm in company with her maid, Franziska, has arrived at the inn and the landlord has not hesitated to deprive...
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