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_aHalme, Kaarle, _d1864-1946 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aMaisteri Pöllökorpi |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 490 | 1 | _aMulta-aatelia III | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-10-25 | ||
| 508 | _aTapio Riikonen | ||
| 520 | _a"Maisteri Pöllökorpi" by Kaarle Halme is a comedic play written in the early 20th century. Set on a Finnish rural estate, it satirizes the self-styled “multa-aateli” as a pompous maisteri bungles his farm while his blustering brother Esa plots a lucrative match. Romantic schemes and class pretensions collide among Kalle, his jealous fiancée Saara, the quick-tongued servant Maiju, opportunist Freckstedt, and the wealthy Maiju Taivaloja—under the shadow of debts and a disastrously managed stable. Expect brisk farce fueled by identity mix-ups, social climbing, and rapid-fire quips. The opening of the play sets the farmhouse in motion: servant Maiju’s flirtatious scuffle with Kalle sparks Saara’s fury, while Esa pushes a hasty reconciliation to shield his own courtship plans; meanwhile the maisteri’s ineptitude shows when a prized horse dies and a large note looms. Freckstedt, fishing for a rich bride, blunders into courting the wrong Maiju and even proclaims a mock engagement. Act II heightens the muddle when an order to send “Maiju” to the station sends the servant off instead, stoking Saara’s suspicions as money woes and quarrels intensify. At the start of Act III, Esa’s meddling backfires when Saara throws herself on his neck before witnesses—including the intended heiress—earning him a public rebuff even as Saara and Kalle make up, and the scene breaks with Esa bribing the servant Maiju to help contain the mounting chaos. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cHelsinki: Kust.Oy Kirja, 1912 |
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| 653 | _aComedy plays | ||
| 653 | _aFinnish drama -- 20th century | ||
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