Word: wife
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...prologue, but the speaker is interrupted by a citizen, one of the spectators, who leaps on the stage and demands that the actors introduce a citizen like himself into the cast. To this the speaker demurs saying there is no one left to take the part. The citizen's wife, who has joined him by this time, suggests that Ralph, their apprentice, act it, and to this the players agree. While he is dressing, the first scene of the regular play is acted...
...cast: Speaker of the Prologue, B. D. Hall '09 A Citizen, G. W. Bricka '07 His Wife, C. B. Wetherall '08 Ralph, his apprentice, O. Lyding '09 Boy, P. N. Garland '08 Venturewell, a merchant, R. L. Niles '09 Humphrey, A. M. Hurlin 1G. Merrythought, W. J. McCormick '07 Jasper, his son, R. M. Middlemass '09 Michael, his son, E. Garnsey '09 Tim, apprentice, R. G. Partridge '08 George, apprentice, C. W. Burton '08 Luce, T. W. Knauth '07 Mistress Merrythought, D. H. Howie '07 Pompiona, B. D. Hall...
...Faversham at the Hollis Street Theatre this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. Impelled by a desire to help on the good work of the Students' House, a haven for the artistically inclined, Mr. Faversham is going to present, under the title of "All the World and his Wife," an English version of the powerful play, "El Gwan Galeoto," the masterpiece of the Spanish dramatist Jose Echegaray...
...Shulamite" is Deborah Krillet, the young wife of a sternly religious old Boer farmer, who demands patriarchal obedience from his household and enforces it with the lash. Deborah escapes a flogging with a lie concerning her condition. Later she is forced to tell the truth, and her husband resolves to kill her. The young English overseer, who is in love with Deborah, saves her by shooting her husband. In the last act, in spite of a wife in England, and a too curious relative of the dead man, matters are straightened out and the curtain falls upon a happy future...
...about an hour. It treats of two poor artists, Pepe and Pepito. Don Manuel returns from Cuba very wealthy, and takes Pepe as his nephew to live with him in his magnificent house. It develops later that Pepito is the real nephew, and just as Pepe and Consuelo, his wife, think they must leave Don Manuel, Pepito arrives and the wealthy uncle keeps them all as his own family. The humor of the play revolves about old Don Cleto, Pepe's father, who uses wrong words, mispronounces, and despite himself is always entangled in the mazes of his vocabulary...