As a promoter of pleasures and an organizer of amusements he took the lead, and it quickly came to pass that no function was complete without him.
Not only did he come to help in the theatricals, but insensibly, and as a matter of course, he took charge.

Frona, as her friends charged, was suffering from a stroke of Ibsen, so they hit upon the "Doll's House," and she was cast for Nora.

Corliss, who was responsible, by the way, for the theatricals, having first suggested them, was to take Torvald's part; but his interest seemed to have died out, or at any rate he begged off on the plea of business rush.

So St.Vincent, without friction, took Torvald's lines.

Corliss did manage to attend one rehearsal.