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Harold, whose prize winnings have altered him from a carefree Bohemian to a foppish snob, argues with Sylvia to whom he is now engaged. But city-sophisticates, Gerald, Helen, and their friend, Harriet have become charmed by country life, discovering the simple pleasures of fishing, milking cows, and collecting eggs. After Holmes arrives with Savage, Mulberry, and Martin, various misunderstandings resolve themselves, especially when Harold and Sylvia call off the engagement and he departs for the city.
The victory, however, takes a physical toll on Cuningham, and at the end of the play he dies. Morton describes Crane’s horrified reaction: “When we came to the death scene, he exclaimed in a startled way: ‘Why, Martha! I can’t die. Dear me, no! ”67 Persuading the star comedian that his character must die to maintain the integrity of the play, is, in itself, a feat that indicates Morton’s position as a playwright by this time. Although in May she referred to the new play for Crane as The Fortune Hunter, by the time preproduction notices appeared in late November the title had become A Fool of Fortune.
Now some enemy of mine has been following the same thing up and brought it to New York. I never even saw the book referred to until the Chicago papers attacked me. Then I read the book. To be sure, the motive is much the same. We are all of us obliged to use an old motive in the construction of our plays. 117 The novel concerns Thaddeus Curzon, a solitary professor who teaches and engages in scientific research and who lives in a small dingy flat on the Strand in London. Curzon is unexpectedly appointed guardian to the daughter of a friend who has died in Australia.
