The College Widow (play)
''The College Widow '' is a 1904 American comedic play by George Ade, which was adapted to film multiple times, and also into the popular 1917 musical ''Leave It to Jane''. Background In the latter nineteenthHalsey, L. (December 1870)The College Widow ''Phrenological Journal and Packard's Monthly'', pp. 427-28 and early twentieth centuries, the trope of a "college widow" was spoken of on college campuses, usually meaning an attractive unmarried woman near campus who would date college students, moving on to new students as the years passed.Clark, Daniel ACreating the College Man: American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood, 1890-1915 pp. 107, 227 (2010) Playwright George Ade first used the trope for a poem he wrote in 1900 (later published in the ''Saturday Evening Post'' in 1905), and as the inspiration for a play in 1904. American football also drives the light plot of the play, loosely based on the football rivalry between DePauw University and Wabash College, which is n ...
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Dorothy Tennant (actress)
Dorothy Tennant (July 10,The actors' birthday book
p. 165 (Third Series, 1909) 18?? - July 3, 1942) was an American stage and screen actress, best known for her stage roles in the first decade of the 20th century, and most prominently her starring role in 's 1904 comedic play '' The College Widow''. Tennant was born up in and moved to New York around 1900, first appearing on stage in 1901 in the one-act pl ...
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