Word: wife
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...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, Marion Hayste. Being spurned by both, he resigns himself to abdication and determines to appoint as successor the man whom his ward, the Princess Anita, chooses for a husband...
...story of the play concerns the unfortunate relations between Mittelbach and his father-in-law, Senator Andersen, who believes that his daughter Agathe owes her first duty to him and not to her husband. The young couple live in rooms directly over those of the Senator and his wife, and as a result Mittelbach is neglected by his wife, who spends most of her time with her parents...
...cast is as follows: Senator Andersen, J. P. Hoguet '04 Helene, his wife, S. C. Colburn '03 Agathe their children, E. B. Ahlborn '02 Stephanie their children, W. H. Chase '04 Oscar their children, W. S. Bedal '03 Mittelbach, Agathe's husband, P. B. Robinson '03 Dr. Gehring, L. G. Brooks '02 Sophie Petzoldt, F. Watson '02 Dr. Steiner, W. E. Sachs '04 Thekla, maid P. M. Hooper '02 Josef, butler, P. B. Olney...
...North and the South of France is the difference position of woman in the two parts. In the Germanic and Norman Northern sections, she occupies a higher place, and the home is in a more moral atmosphere than in the South. After the revolution, the farmer desired his wife and daughters to be the intellectual equals of the noble women, and in this way the classes became much intermixed...
Senator Andersen, J. P. Hoguet '04Helene, his wife, H. R. Van Law '02Agathe, their children E.B. Ahlborn '02Stepbanie, their children W. H. Chase '04Oscar, their children W. S. Bedal '03Mittelbach, P. B. Robinson '03Dr. Gehring, L. G. Brooks '02Sophie Petzoldt, F. Watson '02Dr. Steiner, W. E. Sachs '04Thekla, maid, P. M. Hooper '02Josef, servant, P. B. Olney...