Mr. Wilkinson's Widows

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 697 words | Copyright

Mr. Wilkinson's Widows (1891), a farce by William Gillette. [Proctor's 23rd Street Theatre, 140 perf.] Mrs. Dickerson ( Henrietta Crosman) and Mrs. Perrin ( Louise Thorndyke Boucicault) are two recently remarried widows who live in the same apartment house and strike up a friendship, which leads to the horrifying discovery that both had the very same husband and that both had married him on the very same day. When Major P. Ferguson Mallory ( Thomas Burns) enters the picture to try to clear up the problem, he only succeeds in adding to the confusion. Based on Alexandre Bisson's Feu Toupinel, Gillette's Americanization laundered out many of the more risqué aspects of the original.

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