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Money - Edward Bulwer-Lytton - BBC Saturday Night Theatre
Money is a comic play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, premièred at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket on 8 December 1840.
As relations gather for the reading of the wealthy Mr. Mordaunt's will, Sir John Vesey's poor cousin Alfred Evelyn and the equally poor Clara part ways for fear that a marriage without money would bring them both misery. Sir John Vesey expects his own daughter Georgina to be the will's main beneficiary, but this instead turns out to be Evelyn, previously employed by Vesey as his secretary to make Vesey appear more generous (and thus more wealthy) than he really is. Evelyn decides that - if Clara would not marry him poor - she is too principled to accept him now he is rich and so leaves their relationship broken off.
Vesey suggests Evelyn marries Georgina and he makes a show of acquiescence, but Evelyn simultaneously embarks on schemes to convince Vesey to break off the engagement by tricking him into believing Evelyn has lost his new fortune. Another rich man, Graves, offers to pay Evelyn's debts and woos Vesey's sister Lady Franklin. Cheques having arrived to clear Evelyn's supposed debts, Evelyn supposes they are from Georgina, confirming that she is not marrying him for his money. He thus parts again from Clara, seemingly forever, but then fresh information then comes to light that the cheques were in fact from Clara, with Georgina instead having resumed her relationship with Sir Walter Blount. Evelyn and Clara thus renew their engagement and Graves and Lady Franklin announce theirs. (Wikipedia)
Originally Broadcast 6/13/1970
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