“THE MARQUISE”
Noel Coward’s eighteenth century comedy, “The Marquise,” is being presented by the Wellington Repertory Society this week in the Town Hall Concert Chamber under the direction of Mr. Leo <Tu Chateau. The play opens with a dinner to celebrate the betrothal of Adrienne, daughter of the Comte de Vriaae. to Miguel, son of Esteban El Duco de Santaguano. However, before the marriage takes place there arrives at the chateau Madame ia Marquise Eloise de Kestournel, who was once the consort of the Comte de Vriaae, and who also had an affaire with his friend Esteban. She claims that the young couple are her children. She gets Miguel away and compels Father Clement to marry her daughter to the conite’s handsome secretary. The comedy teems with clever dialogue and highly-amusing situations.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 152, 24 March 1938, Page 15
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