Name/Title
Jay Bender and Doris Wagner in "I Like it Here"Entry/Object ID
2024.P.17.01.18Description
Jay Bender and Doris Wagner in the play "I Like it Here." Jay, Sebastian Merriweather, is standing over Doris, Matilda Merriweather,in a suit and tie and pointing a warning finger at her. She looks threatened as she is seated in a chair wearing a dark colored dress. There is a stairway to the left of them with a child sitting on the stairs. This appears to be in someones home.
Back: Mr. Merriweather Jay Bender
Mrs. Merriweather Dode Wagner
SUMMARY
Willie is an earnest, engaging and infinitely skillful manservant who has been newly hired in the home of a professor in a New England town. Willie is a refugee from middle Europe who has just become an American citizen. As such he is more American that most Americans and he likes it here well enough to set busily and confidently about making the ideals of democracy work. Besides all this Willie can cook and repair things. He immediately sets out to protect the hen-pecked professor from his determined wife and becomes embroiled in all the family affairs. He urges a young ex-soldier, of whom the daughter is quite fond, to run for office against a rich lawyer to whom the daughter is engaged, and it is here that Willie's new found knowledge of politics, and his amiable scheming save the day for true love and the right boy. There is also an hilarious scene in which Willie and the professor start an open rebellion against Mrs. Professor. Everything turns out for the best as Willie finally instills enough manliness into the professor to make him the master of his own house. https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/6174/i-like-it-hereDimensions
Height
9-7/8 inWidth
7-3/4 inDimension Notes
9.875" x 7.75"Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Wagner, DorisPerson or Organization
Bender, JayRelated Entries
Notes
2024.17.01.13, 2024.17.01.14, 2024.17.01.15, 2024.17.01.25, 2024.P.17.01.17, 2024.P.17.01.19
