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...plot of the play is as follows: James Higdig, president of the Ice Trust, discovers that his men in Hugglesland have struck, thereby tying up the American ice supply. Henry Chalkstones, in love with Gloriana Griggs, who is in turn loved by Dardanelles Bixby, persuades Higdig to send his rival to Hugglesland to break the strike, leaving Gloriana...
...plot opens with Patricia Blair, long accustomed to wealth and extravagance, suddenly finding herself at the end of her income with nothing in the future but shame and ruin. Her old friend, Arthur Corey, comes to call just as the creditors are about to make their descent on her and seeing no other way out of the matter, since he himself is without wealth, reluctantly advises her to marry young Davis Mills for his money...
...plot concerns the discovery of an unknown who has written a lampoon against the emperor of Austria. The minister of police suspects a certain Armand, but can obtain no evidence because Armand has destroyed all extant examples of his handwriting. Armand loves the ladies, so the minister sets a score of them to cajole him into writing a letter, but all their wiles are in vain, till suddenly the minister's niece appears. She agrees to try the task, but is not told why, hence she innocently lures him to his social ruin. In the last act he is enlightened...
...Truth's husband in order to quiet his suspicions of the innkeeper. Whereupon Scottish Law declared Truth married to both men. But Truth really loved a third party, whose identity it would be a shame to divulge before you actually get to the fourth act, for the plot is the only interesting thing about the play. The actors, with the exception of Mr. Kemble, certainly do not make the characters vivid...
...remains of what may once have been a plot centre about a law student in Paris who has not yet met the girl; the girl herself; a Mama with suffragette leanings, yet clothed in most ladylike attire; a Papa who made money in Omaha, Neb., transferred it to his wife. and now will drink cocktails on the sly in spite of her; an English lord wanted by Mama for Marjorie; a mock-English lord to do the confusion-of-identity stunt;--all these and more are tangled up in Cook's Office in Paris with the Opera standing bravely...