The Earl of Pawtucket
Earl of Pawtucket, The Author: Augustus Thomas
First Performance: 1903, New York
Published: 1903
Genre: Com. in 3 acts
Setting: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1900s
Cast: 6m, 2f
Lord Cardington has run away to America from England to avoid a summons from the House of Lords and to see how well he can survive without his title. He assumes the identity of a certain Putnam, an American he had befriended in England. He begins to woo Harriet Fordyce, unaware that she is the former Mrs Putnam. A further complication develops when, because Putnam was the last person seen together with Lord Cardington before his mysterious disappearance, Putnam is suspected of his murder. The fake Putnam now finds himself pursued by the police. In a further comic twist, he is also hounded by lawyers demanding alimony from the very woman he is...
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