Seven Days
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Seven Days (1909), a comedy by Mary Roberts
Rinehart and Avery
Hopwood. [Astor Theatre, 397 perf.] James Wilson ( Herbert Corthell) has not told his rich Aunt Selina ( Lucille La Verne) about his divorce from his wife, Bella ( Hope Latham), so when Selina suddenly appears he is forced to palm off his friend Anne Brown ( Florence
Reed) as his wife. Anne is an odd girl, a psychic who is convinced (correctly as it turns out) that there is a burglar in the house. Suddenly a policeman appears and announces that James's cook is in the hospital with a communicable disease. Therefore, everyone in the house is under a seven‐day quarantine. Bella suddenly arrives and she, too, is confined. For the next week the group attempts to do household chores and learn to cook, ending up knowing each other all too well. This slight farce, produced by
Wagenhals and Kemper, was one of the biggest hits of its era and was later made into the musical
Tumble In (1919).
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