Töykänän aurinko : Yksinäytöksinen farssi

Notre costume by Eugène Marsan is a cultural essay written in the early 20th century. The book likely explores dress and appearance as mirrors of social customs and national character, considering how clothing shapes identity, manners, and everyday life. The provided work is a one-act farce set in a village shop, where old shopkeeper Piinu, his romantic daughter Lumi (Zuleima), the swaggering delivery boy Valte, the practical maid Iita, and rival merchant Armas Toivorinta collide with Sam. Newton, a brash returnee from America. Lumi awaits Toivorinta’s proposal, while price wars rage between the shops; Toivorinta proposes ending competition with a price-fixing “complotti,” and Newton rebrands it as a modern “trust” called “Töykänän aurinko.” A comic misunderstanding makes Piinu think his daughter was called “spoiled goods,” prompting fainting fits and near-brawls, until the men settle on cartel terms and Piinu consents to the match—first the father sets prices, then the son-in-law. Newton tries to claim payment for the trust idea and name, while Valte, spouting mock-business jargon about “conjunctures,” pivots to pledge himself to Iita and launch his own ventures. The play lampoons monopoly schemes, Americanized hustle, and market jargon by mirroring them with tangled courtship, ending with alliances formed in both love and trade. (This is an automatically generated summary.)