Word: counterfeit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...action of "The Fourflushers" halts in a few places but is on the whole swift and amusing. Its satire upon New York counterfeit society life is witty, and the dialogue is full of bright epigrams. The difficult lines were skillfully read, and all the parts well taken. Miss Ahrens and Miss Stickney gave plausibility to parts that might easily have seemed too absurd even for a farce. The author played the butler, and his acting was as comic as his play is clever...