Project Gutenberg 2025-06-13 Public domain in the USA. 147 Haarla, Lauri 1890 1944 Pyhä Yrjänä, eli Runous, rakkaus ja raha : $b kolminäytöksinen huvinäytelmä $aHelsinki :$bOtava, $c1926. Tapio Riikonen "Pyhä Yrjänä, eli Runous, rakkaus ja raha: kolminäytöksinen huvinäytelmä" by Haarla is a three-act comedy play written in the early 20th century. It’s a sharp, metatheatrical satire where a penniless writer engineers a charity staging of the Saint George legend to pit poetry, love, and money against one another in a small-city milieu. The comedy revolves around the ambitious actor Eevert Urpia, the powerful mayor Adam Bilde, Bilde’s captivated wife Ruth, the exacting critic Ihanelma Palmu, and the barber–balladeer Polle, as desire and finance clash on and off the stage. Expect playful irreverence about cultural authority, sly plotting, and romantic entanglements that threaten public respectability. The opening of the play sets the scene in the mayor’s grand home, where the impoverished playwright Hans Korp spars with a vain actor, a cautious theater director, and a self-important critic, while secretly ferrying a note from Ruth to the actor Urpia. Spotting a chance to turn life into drama, Korp rewrites the pious Saint George pageant into a bolder love-and-revolt piece: during rehearsal the crowd (egged on by Lill’ Margit) cries down the “king,” Urpia’s Saint George openly woos Ruth-as-princess, and the enraged mayor storms in, vowing to fire Urpia. At the start of the second act in the “Nubia” restaurant, Polle pines for Lill’ Margit, Selma pleads and is rebuffed by Urpia, and Ruth arrives, determined to choose love; Korp insists they need cunning, not blunt confession, to outwit the mayor. He then stage-manages a farcical trap with Lill’ Margit on a sofa and Bilde arriving alone, a setup poised to compromise the mayor just as other guests begin to enter. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250516005108haarla 1926 FI Reading ease score: 46.5 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Finnish drama -- 20th century PH Text Category: Humour Category: Plays/Films/Dramas 163364 2025-09-30T07:03:29.798831 text/html 139996 2025-09-30T07:03:36.124490 application/epub+zip 141048 2025-09-30T07:03:32.881564 application/epub+zip 127487 2025-09-30T07:03:31.758564 application/epub+zip 316990 2025-09-30T07:03:38.414583 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 304122 2025-09-30T07:03:35.402535 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 136509 2025-09-30T07:03:29.501541 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 116571 2025-05-09T19:59:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15179 2025-09-30T07:03:38.535496 application/rdf+xml 17537 2025-09-30T07:03:32.253530 image/jpeg 3897 2025-09-30T07:03:32.005541 image/jpeg 139053 2025-09-30T07:03:29.813567 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fi.wikipedia