Word: servant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the wicked and black-browed millionaire was murdered on the eve of his wedding. Of the dozen or two people in the play, nearly every one was suspected at one time or another; but the burden of suspicion fell on a discarded mistress, her two sons, a Kaffir servant and a stout Irishwoman included in the name of comedy. All these and the others were collected in the final scene before the District Attorney, who proceeded to carve out the culprit in time for an eleven o'clock curtain. No notable acting enlivened these proceedings, though the general average...
George Darling, a young and studious butterfly collector, is to be played by J. C. MacDonald '26, who was the leader of the Freshman Glee Club two years ago and who since then has sung with several of the college musical clubs. Abercrombie, his man servant, is played by J. H. Wright '25, the most talented musician in the cast. He is a member of both the banjo and mandolin clubs and an able performer on the saxophone...
...himself giving practical expression to his enthusiasm for Napoleon, after whom he christened his son (Marshal Foch's father) Bertrand Jules Napoleon. Foch pere did not continue in the wool business but, as the French say, entra dans I'Administration; in other words, he became a civil servant. In 1850, having married Marie Sophie Jacqueline Dupre, he was appointed by President Louis Napoleon Secretaire General de la Prefecture at Tarbes. Next year, to M. and Mme. Foch was born their third child, a boy whom they christened Ferdinand...
Miss Clark's servant girl, Nancy, was portrayed in spirited manner with full appreciation for the humor of the part. For some reason Bernard Nedell as John Pendleton assumed an expression suggesting tolerant amusement which he used throughout the evening regardless of the situation...
...characters in the opera are Archibaldo, an old man who has conquered a small Italian princedom; Manfredo, his son; the Princess Flora, who by the treaty of peace concluded between Archibaldo and the conquered Prince Avito, must break her engagement with the latter and marry Mantredo; and Flamingo, a servant. The opera ends with the tragic death of three of the principals...