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...first symptom was Miss Isadora Duncan. Her husband was a Russian poet, and she herself of doubtful sentiments: wherefore she was detained at Ellis Island, on whispered rumor that she came not altogether for art's sake. However innocent her previous color, such a reception could have only one effect, and her Boston exhibition was to be expected. But, Cincinnati, fore-warned, was spared from her baleful influence. Madame Gadski followed her; but the American Legion was awake to its duty. "Music hath charms", they remembered, and decided that her voice should be no incantation, like the Lorelei...
...Skeffington is one of the five women members of the Dublin City Council, and a Justice of the Republican Court. Since the death of her husband in 1916, she has edited his newspaper, "The Irish Citizen". Mrs. Skeffington has received the degree of M.A. from the University of Dublin...
...eternal triangle plays an important part. In the ordinary drama one would expect the dashing opera singer to be the wily and passionate vampire who steals the affections of the married and conservative hero and breaks up his peaceful home, until his quiet and domestic wife finally wins her husband back by her constant faith and love. But not so in "Enter Madame". Here we have just the reverse situation...
Madame is married to the conservative hero and has a son in college. Unfortunately her career calls her to all parts of the world, and while she is away, her husband, becoming lonely in her absence, thinks he has found the ideal woman. She, a widow, appears to be the domestic and home-loving creature who will warm his slippers by the fire and make life easy and happy for him. This affair has come to a critical stage when Madame enters...
From here on the play moves rapidly. But finally Madame, with her imaginative fancles, subtle emotions, temperamental outbursts, and above all her undying love, wins back her miscreant husband, much to the anger and jealousy of the domestic widow, who pours forth a torrent of abuse on poor Madame's head and in so doing reveals her true nature...