Act II of this play opens with one character trying to figure out how a typewriter works, but he's rebuked when he makes a key stick. A main character reveals that his kids Jimmy and Fluffy are back in town, when he is visited in his drawing room by Alexander Mill, whom he calls Lexy. That character is told that all the women he knows suffer from "Prossy's complaint," which refers to his secretary Proserpine Garnett, who took a pay cut just to work for him out of love – this interchange later confuses his snobbish father-in-law Mr. Burgess. The plot is initiated when the young poet Eugene Marchbanks declares that he is in love with the wife of Reverend James Morell, but in the end that title wife decides to stay with Morell since he is the weaker man. FTP, name this play by George Bernard Shaw named for a woman who sounds like a Voltaire protagonist.
Act II of this play opens with one character trying to figure out how a typewriter works, but he's rebuked when he makes a key stick. A main character reveals that his kids Jimmy and Fluffy are back in town, when he is visited in his drawing room by Alexander Mill, whom he calls Lexy. That character is told that all the women he knows suffer from "Prossy's complaint," which refers to his secretary Proserpine Garnett, who took a pay cut just to work for him out of love – this interchange later confuses his snobbish father-in-law Mr. Burgess. The plot is initiated when the young poet Eugene Marchbanks declares that he is in love with the wife of Reverend James Morell, but in the end that title wife decides to stay with Morell since he is the weaker man. FTP, name this play by George Bernard Shaw named for a woman who sounds like a Voltaire protagonist.
Act II of this play opens with one character trying to figure out how a typewriter works, but he's rebuked when he makes a key stick.
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