Mr. Wilkinson's Widows
Mr. Wilkinson's Widows is a farce-comedy in Three Acts by William Gillette from the Alexandre Bisson play Feu Toupinel.
The play opened under the management of Charles Frohman on Monday, March 30, 1891 at Proctor's Theatre and continued until the end of the season with the final curtain falling on June 13.
Mr. Wilkinson's Widows returned some ten weeks later with the coming of the new season and remained open until October 3, 1891.
The introduction into the story of a former admirer of Mrs. Dickerson, Major Mallory, sets off a chain of events that disrupts the domestic bliss of both women and eventually unravels the late Mr. Wilkinson’s secret.
Mr. Gillette has made a delightful comedy out of Mr. Wilkinson's Widows, but all he did to the original play was to cut out the risqué lines.
Mr. Perrin: You told him you were married to a fool!
Mrs. Perrin: I wouldn’t tell anyone that; there are some things we should keep to ourselves.
Illustrated American , 1891
Perrin: Never mind; if you don’t like it, I’ll take it away.
Mallory: It’s all right. I do like it, my boy, I do like it.
Illustrated American, 1891