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...Bess and Roughman seemed easily the best-presented persons in the play. Mr. Haussermann's swaggering was indeed "immense"; and the difficult transitions from boasting to cringing and back again he managed with a fine skill of reality. He played to the point of delight a part which demands very much versatility. Mr. Spelman's Bess Bridges quite exhausts praise. I do not remember seeing another man fill a woman's part so sufficiently. At times Bess was genuinely and girlishly charming, to the point of complete illusion; yet never over-feminine. She was most interesting, perhaps, in her masculine...
...cast is as follows: Spencer, F. M. Eliot 1G. Carrol, H. W. Miller '12 Fawcett, J. C. Janney '11 Captain Goodlack, T. S. Kenyon '11 Roughman, O. W. Haussermann '12 Clem, C. B. Randall '12 First Captain, R. D. Whittemore '13 Second Captain, P. H. Keays '13 Mayor of Foy, P. J. Stearns '13 An Alderman, F. C. Rogerson '13 Mullisheg, King of Fez, P. Snedeker 1L. Bashaw Alcade, J. B. Munn '12 Bashaw Joffer, M. C. Allen '11 A Spanish Captain, P. H. Keays '13 An English Merchant, A. J. Kelly '12 A French Merchant, R. D. Whittemore...
...farewell to Bess. He bids her go to the Windmill Tavern which he owns at Foy, and departs for Fayal with his friend Captain Goodlack. Bess goes to Foy and acts as mistress of the tavern. Among the gallants whom her beauty has attracted, is a bully named Roughman. Disguised as a page, Bess tries the courage of Roughman and finds him to be a coward. Spencer, in the mean-while, has been wounded in a duel and, thinking that he is about to die, commands Goodlack to go back to England and, if he finds Bess still faithful...
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