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Men and Women
Men and Women (1890), a play by David Belasco and Henry C. de Mille. [ Proctor's 23rd Street Theatre, 204 perf.] A panic brings the Jefferson National Bank to the brink of collapse, especially when bonds kept in its vault are discovered missing. Suspicion falls on young Edward Seabury ( Orrin Johnson), just as he is to announce his engagement to Dora Prescott ( Maude Adams), sister of his best friend and fellow cashier, William Prescott ( William Morris). Will, too, has just become engaged, to Agnes Rodman ( Sydney Armstrong), daughter of Arizona's governor, Stephen Rodman ( Frank Mordaunt). Calvin Stedman ( R. A. Roberts), who loves Dora, determines to pin the theft on Edward, and when Governor Rodman comes to Edward's defense, Stedman reveals that the Governor has a criminal record. This revelation forces Will to confess that he stole the bonds. Although he is not prosecuted, Will loses his job and cannot find work. Finally the sympathetic bank president, dismissing Will's actions as a youthful mistake, finds him another position and the lovers are all happily paired. Based on a then recent and celebrated case, the Charles Frohman production was the last collaboration of Belasco and de Mille. The New York Star praised it as the “best they have ever written.” Except for the Herald, most critics agreed, even if some saw little purpose in the weak ending.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Men and Women." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Men and Women." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-MenandWomen.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Men and Women." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-MenandWomen.html |
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Men and Women
Men and Women, a collection of 51 poems by R. Browning, published in two vols, 1855. The poems date from the period after Browning's marriage in 1846. They show Browning's mind at its most multitudinous and eclectic, ranging over history, art, philosophy, and religion; they include many of his finest dramatic monologues, such as ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’, ‘Bishop Blougram's Apology’, ‘Andrea del Sarto’, and ‘Cleon’. The collection also includes Browning's most famous love- poem, ‘Love Among the Ruins’, and the problematic ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Men and Women." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Men and Women." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-MenandWomen.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Men and Women." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-MenandWomen.html |
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