Word: husbanding
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...there is something about characterization and dialogue that makes it intensely funny,--a trace of satire and a dash even of dignified burlesque, but always perfectly plausible people in everyday situations. The money-box penalty for swearing has become a stock device in comedy, and the quarrel between husband and wife over expenses is age-old; but they are handled ingeniously enough here, plus a trivial affaire de coeur between two guests at a house-party, to make adequate substance for a four-act drama...
...morning-star" of English poetry in musical comedy; the Wife of Bath has possibilities. Not to mention the enormous advantage all this would be to the Senior of the future, who would surely find as much of literary value in A. H. Woods' "The Return of a Husband" as in the "Odyssey" skimmed through in a day. Something on the order of a "Pops" program on a large scale, with Virgil at the Colonial and Sophocies at Gordon's Olympia, might solve the Divisional problem quite handily...
...your husband alive...
...suggested above is not comedy--the plot, the characters, the procedure are all too outrageous for that; but played as a tremendous joke with a little serio-comic sentimental trimming, it succeeds admirably. No-one could take the adventures of the unsophisticated young American girl, who leaves her aged husband five minutes after marrying him to chase around the world after a penniless Englishmen, too seriously. The rapid geographical movements of the characters--from Hawaii via Japan, China, the North Pole, and Russia to Canada--are in themselves too preposterous for anything more than an amusing outburst of somebody...
...impecunious Britisher was at his best, the possibilities of the part seemed to appeal to him tremendously, and it was a pleasure to watch his enthusiastic performance, unfortunately slightly marred by a poor final act, a weakness not of his, but of the author. Mr. Turner as the deserted husband was very, very weak...