Word: wife
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Invite le Colonel," the first of the three plays, is a one-act comedy. M. Carbonnel has had a flirtation of which his wife learns and for which she decides to punish him. She takes from him the keys of the treasure-box, and, in addition, pretends, than a Colonel Bernard of their acquaintance, has paid court to her and still presses his attentions upon her. By threatening to "invite the Colonel," she silences her husband whenever he seeks to prove his masculine superiority. Colonel Bernard, in the meantime, has become engaged and comes to Paris to celebrate his wedding...
...hopes to bring about the composer's ruin by having him sing it in the royal presence. At its close the king commands Olivier to leave the room. When alone with Gringoire, to the latter's surprise, he does not vent his anger, but promises to give him a wife...
...excellent. Something of the same admirable restraint appears in R. J. Walsh's "Little Wanderers," which treats a difficult situation with delicacy and good taste. K. B. Townsend's "Deus ex Box Car" is marked by vivid and convincing description, and his picture of the brakeman and his wife and the happy-go-lucky youngster who "don't have to work" is skilfully drawn...
...protector, the true situation apears. But the consequent dismay of the artist's family is again turned to rejoicing by Don Manuel's promise to look out for them all. The cast is as follows: Pepe, a poor young artist of Madrid, M.H. Woolman '09 Consuelo, his wife, G.E. Hyde '09 Pepito, his friend, H.W. Packer 1L. Dona Paz, Consuelo's mother, J. Murdoch, Jr., 1G. Don Cleto, Pepe's father, G. Rivera, Jr., '09 Don Manuel, Pepito's millionaire uncle from Cuba, E.F. Schwartzenburg 2L. Domingo, negro servant of Don Manuel, D.N. Robinson...
...plot deals with the fortunes of Pepe, a poor and ambitious young painter, who, after finishing a painting, goes out to sell it. Both Pepito, his ease-loving friend, and Consuelo, his wife, are confident that he will find a purchaser. On the other hand, Dona Paz, the traditional mother-in-law, scoffs at it, and praises, instead, the daubing of Pepito, whom she has secret hopes of marrying. Her disdain is more than offset by the enthusiasm of Pepe's father, a comical, loving old gentleman with an unmanageable tongue. Pepe returns with the picture unsold. Soon after this...