Engaged (play)
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Engaged is a three-act farcical comic play by W. S. Gilbert. The plot revolves around a rich young man, his search for a wife, and the attempts – from mercenary motives – by his uncle to encourage his
Cabinet card of W.S. Gilbert in about 1880 by Elliott & Fry
Agnes Booth as Belinda, New York, 1879
1879 poster for the first American production
Marion Terry
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Marion Bessie Terry was an English actress. In a career spanning half a century, she played leading roles in more than 125 plays. Always in the shadow of her older and more famous sister Ellen, Terry
Engaged (play)
…of characters whose motivation is not love but money. Possibly to underline the contrast, in the new play he cast in the mercenary female lead role Marion Terry, who in Dan'l Druce had played a sentimental part. He also wrote a scene for the new play that appeared to parody one in its predecessor. A passage…
Marion Terry
Marion Terry, c. 1880
Terry and W. S. Gilbert in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1908)