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Eleanora Duse finished her engagement in Manhattan and departed for Boston, but not before New Yorkers had called her back for 27 curtain calls at her last performance. Morris Gest, conducting Mme. Duse's American tour, hade her a gift of flowers and a speech. Mme. Duse presented him with a polite answer and a kiss...
...Balanzoni, are courted respectively by Florindo, a medical student living in the doctor's house, and by Ottavio, a gentleman of Padua. Florindo's timidity, however, prevents him from declaring his love except by indirect methods. He causes Rosaura to be serenaded by hired musicians, sends her, anonymously, a gift of lace; and composes a poem setting forth his love, but containing only vague hints of his identity. Instead of handing her the verses himself, he throws them on her balcony...
Lelio, the liar, son of the old Venetian merchant Pantalone, seeking adventure, encounters Beatrice and Rosaura. Addressing his attentions to the latter, he passes himself off as a wealthy Neapolitan noble and declares himself responsible for serenade, gift and poem. Meeting Ottavio, he boasts not only of serenading the girls, but of having dined with them in their house. Shocked at Beatrice's levity, Ottavio informs her father that he can no longer entertain thoughts of marriage...
...dramatic art, poetic gift, keen insight and subtlely of Moliere are lacking, but Goldoni's place in the history of comedy, if not among the highest is nevertheless secure
...gift is to be used, according to Mrs. Boardman's will, for endowing a professorship of fine arts which will bear his name forever...