Men and Women

Men and Women (1890), a play by David Belasco and Henry C. de Mille. [Proctor's 23rd Street Theatre, 204 perf.] A panic brings the Jefferson National Bank to the brink of collapse, especially when bonds kept in its vault are discovered missing. Suspicion falls on young Edward Seabury (Orrin Johnson), just as he is to announce his engagement to Dora Prescott (Maude Adams), sister of his best friend and fellow cashier, William Prescott (William Morris). Will, too, has just become engaged, to Agnes Rodman (Sydney Armstrong), daughter of Arizona's governor, Stephen Rodman (Frank Mordaunt). Calvin Stedman (R. A. Roberts), who loves Dora, determines to pin the theft on Edward, and when Governor Rodman comes to Edward's defense, Stedman reveals that the Governor has a criminal record. This revelation forces Will to confess that he stole the bonds. Although he is not prosecuted, Will loses his job and cannot find work. Finally the sympathetic bank president, dismissing Will's actions as a youthful mistake, finds him another position and the lovers are all happily paired. Based on a then recent and celebrated case, the Charles Frohman production was the last collaboration of Belasco and de Mille. The New York Star praised it as the “best they have ever written.” Except for the Herald, most critics agreed, even if some saw little purpose in the weak ending.

Men and Women can refer to:

• Men and Women, a poetry collection by the poet Robert Browning.
• Men and Women, an album by the band Simply Red.
• Men and Women (1925 film), a 1925 American film.
• Men and Women (1964 film), a 1964 Brazilian film.
• Men and Women (1999 film), an LGBT Chinese film.
• Men and Women, an 1890 play written by David Belasco.
• Men and Women (newspaper supplement), a defunct glossy supplement for the Indian paper, The Times of India

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