The Deutscher Verein will offer as its fifth annual play, "Der Herr Senator," in three acts, by Franz von Schouthan and Gustav Kadelburg. Performances will be given in Brattle Hall on March 21, and in Union Hall, Boston, on March 22. The rehearsals will begin next Monday. Tickets may be obtained only by application to A. C White '02, Dunster 36. The price for the Cambridge performance is $1.00; for the Boston performance $1.50.
The plot of "Der Herr Senator" hinges on the unfortunate relations between a young husband and his wife's parents. The father in-law, Senator Anderson, is fully conscious of his dignity as a senator, and sincerely believes that his daughter Agathe owes her first duty to him, and not to her husband. The young couple also has the misfortune to occupy an apartment directly above that of the senator; and accordingly Agathe, who has been brought up to think as her father does, spends most of her time with her parents. Whenever the young husband, Mittelbach, offers to pay any little attention to his wife, the parents interfere. In short, Mittelbach's home is not his own. At the end of two years, Mittelbach has become meek and yields to every whim of his parents-in-law. The strain has worn on his nerves, so that he is very near a state of collapse, when his doctor kindly prescribes a journey for his health. Here Mittelbach sees an opportunity to get away from the parents, and to be left alone with his wife whom he adores. The senator, however, decides that he himself will go with the invalid.
While Mittelbach is in despair he receives a call from an old college friend, Dr. Gehring, who wishes an interview with the senator in behalf of a Miss Petzoldt with whom the senator's son Oscar is in love, much against the will of his parents. Gehring opens the eyes of the young wife, Agathe, to her real duty toward her husband. Agathe's sister, Stephanie, has been in love with Gehring for a long time. After an amusing scene of embarrassing complications, Gehring discovers that he in turn loves Stephanie; but trouble is feared from the senator, who is as much opposed to Gehring as a son-in-law as he is to Miss Petzoldt as a daughter-in-law. After countless misunderstandings between the senator and his wife on one side, and the prospective couples on the other, the senator is finally persuaded to agree to the marriage of his son Oscar with Miss Petzoldt; and that of his daughter Stephanie with Dr. Gehring. Last of all he is persuaded that his daughter Agathe's first duty is to her husband. At the end, Mittelbach believes the happy conclusion due to his own strength of will, while in fact his efforts have only proved a hindrance.
Following is the cast as now arranged:
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