The Sweet Girl Graduates: A Farce in Three Acts and an Epilogue
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A comic stage farce set across three acts and an epilogue depicts domestic upheaval as a household races to prepare a young woman's graduation wardrobe and ceremony. Anxious parents, meddlesome relatives, a punctilious dressmaker, a rival friend, and a florist create tangled complications over lace, fashions, flowers, and social appearances, provoking escalating misunderstandings and physical comedy. Scenes rely on gossip, mistaken priorities, and theatrical exaggeration to satirize vanity and ritualized social customs, and the action resolves with a neat, domestic reconciliation at a subsequent family gathering.
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