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BEST
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OF
1920-1921
THE
BEST
PLAYS
OF
THE
AND
YEAR
BOOK
OF
THE
DRAMA
AMERICA
Edited
BURNS
Dramatic
1920-21
by
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copyright, 192 '" by H. Granville Barker.
York.
Sons, New
by G. P. Putnam's
Craven.
"The
First Year," copyright, 192 1, by Frank
"Enter
Madame,"
copyright, 192 1, by Gilda Varesi and Dolly Byrne.
York.
Published
Sons, New
by G. P. Putnam's
Archer.
"The
Green
by William
Goddess," copyright, 1920-21,
York.
Published
by Alfred A. Knopf, New
Plays, Inc.
"Llliom," copyright, 1921,
by United
York.
Piublished by Boni
Liveright, New
"
"Mary
Rose," copyright, 192 1, by James M. Barrie.
"Nice People," copyright, 1921,
by Rachel Crothers.
"The
Bad
Browne.
Man,"
copyright, 1921,
by Porter Emerson
"Deburau,"
Published
Hanson
Novelized
Towne.
by Charles
Published
and copyrighted by G. P. Putnam's
York.
Sons, New
"The
G. O'Neill.
Emperor
Jones," copyright, 1921,
by Eugene
Published
York.
"
by Boni
Liveriight, New
"The
Skin
Game,"
copyright, 192 1, by John Galsworthy.
Published
York.
by Charles Scribner's Sons, New
Copyright,
By
small,
1921
MAYNARD
"
CO.
(Incorporated)
Printed
in the
United
States
of
America.
CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction
The
Season
The
Season
iii
in
New
York
Chicago
in
12
"Deburau"
"The
19
First
"Enter
Year"
63
Madame"
"The
98
Green
Goddess"
124
"Liliom"
162
Rose"
196
People"
224
"Mary
"Nice
"The
"The
"The
The
Bad
Man"
269
Emperor
Skin
299
Game"
Plays
Statistical
Jones"
320
their
and
Authors
Summary
of
the
347
New
York
351
Season.
...
Casts
and
York
Plays
plays
produced
in
New
(1920-21)
that
have
places
355
run
over
five
hundred
ances
perform-
Broadway
on
Birth
of
Synopses
and
birth
455
dates
of
prominent
455
players
.
Necrology
Index
of
463
plays
and
casts
469
INTRODUCTION
WITH
of
The
Best
find
of
theater
the
best
has
been
the
second
have
general
expressed
the
to
deal
of
our
both
us,
for
fiimly
the
the
taken
over
of
are
in
their
by
their
in
the
alert
carried
has
the
its
within
important
an
of
work
steadily
of
G.
as
The
perfectly
theater,
field, and
iii
this
interested
most
itself
Eugene
in
theater.
achievements
plays
purpose
by
which
being
our
brought
public
the
record
activities
the
of
the
season
commercial
play-producing
individual
by
of
established
is
is
have
cover
success
promptly
only
who
to
theater
example,
Players
it
that
form
original
included
achieving
progressives
Provincetown
notably
proved,
tried
not
Little
so-called
the
the
seasons
the
of
record
those
theatrical
immediately
Guild,
represents
by
confidence
the
not
regular
attention
are
producers
in
issue
present
assure
To
repeat
and,
not
are
the
to
Theatre
the
that
we
has
to
have
we
we
experimental
but
factor
that
the
with
field, they
them,
two
in
held
have
compilation.
sponsors
of
to
volume.
we
theaters,
only
particular
first
that
regret
little
largely
from
supplied
enough
we
book
year
added
that
have
we
the
completely,
of
own
way
of
purpose
field
having
kind
been
excerpts
with
activities
that
entertaining.
and
helpful
in
pride
in
therefore,
series
volume
hope
success
Now,
the
theatrical
reviewers
The
year.
of
volume
the
containing
that
first
the
interested
public
gratifying.
most
American
and
of
of
ago
expressed
America
pardonable
In
in
year
we
playgoing
the
plays
ten
series
Plays
would
and
publication
the
the
forward
dramatists,
O'Neill,
who
has
INTRODUCTION
iv
for
two
theater
written
by plays
whom
with
in
represented
been
seasons
little band
the
for
commercial
the
menters
experi-
of
is associated.
he
i
_
Again
eluded
best
in
in this volume
the
been
have
we
which
applying
in
judgment,
of
selection
the
have
we
hesitated
not
of any
public's indorsement
have
not
proved completely
may
If we
to select the best plays for a
are
satisfyingto us.
reading public of average
playgoers we must, obviously,
and
include
such
the
taste
plays as best
represent
with
compromise
particular play which
the
to
preferences of
those
who
by their
writing fessays
the
support
theater
upon
have
we
it does
included
represent
the
because
its
second,
it in this
choice
of
volimie, first,because
considerable
public and,
and
entitle
it to
another
of
inclusion.
Also
merit
equal
in
because
the
cotdd
we
list with
find
not
which
to
place
re-
it.
We
"
feel
in
success
about
same
Sir
Barrie's'
James
America.
By
spiritual message
but
the
Rose,"
Mary
in
much
it
O'Neill's
play in
left
"The
that
of
reason
the
others
its obscure
play appealed
emotionally
Emperor
Jones"
it is written,
in
and
strongly
indefinite
to
untouched.
is also
bit of
many,
Eugene'
a
freak
a
single long act and
is,
introduction, little more
than
dramatic
a
But
it
soUloquy.
worthily represents
the
work
of a
native
playwright of great promise and
rises easily
above
the ordinary dramatic
production in quality and
past
its
interest.
INTRODUCTION
Prank
Craven's
comedy
of
has
that
trail-blazer
First
"The
with
credited
Year"
the
being
has
fully
right-
light American
best
in years,
in its perfect reflection
been
been
written
and
of
something
the homely
America.
Rachel
atmosphere of small-town
"Nice
Crothers'
People" is of vital importance, we
of its sincere
of a present-day
treatment
feel, because
of the theatrically
theme, though it does slip into the grooves
conventional
American
before
it
comedy drama
domestic
is concluded.
Gilda
and
Varesi
Madame"
Dolly Byrne's "Enter
is a bright and
amusing American
comedy which
may
be said to reflect the style of the best of the French
comedy writers as cleverly as Zoe Atkins' "Declassee"
last season
reflected
the Pinero
drama
drawing-room
its
at
Man"
is
American
wholly
incisiveness
Emerson
Porter
best.
of its satire
Browne's
Bad
"The
characterization, in the
the natural
comedy values
in
and
it commands,
t
Barker's
Granville
French
with
this
these
version
of Sacha
Guitry's
artistic achievement,
"Deburau,"
drama,
was
an
David
Belasco
to the staging of which
point
may
that
has
of
his
the
We
he
rest
pride
days.
regret
decision
his
announced
bring
English
play
some
pages.
is easily the
tour,
on
little
not
to
but
we
suggestion
William
Archer's
risk the
glad to
its appeal
are
of
"The
of sending
expense
Green
be
able
to
to
you
in
Goddess"
and
the
most
gracefully written
of this decade
and
dramatically stirring melodrama
Skin
is a finely balanced,
Game"
John Galsworthy's "The
We
interesting drama.
purposeful and
may
Gale's
add, as a sort of honorable
mention, that Zona
A.
A.
"Miss
Lulu
Bett," following its revision, and
also seriously conMilne's
"Mr.
Pim
Passes
sidered
By" were
there
been
as
worthy of being included, had
which
decided
for them, or if we
could easily have
room
of the other
most
ten
to
leave
out.
vi
INTRODUCTION
We
have
New
York
of
of
Hammond,
we
the
second
the
by
the
Percy
world
important
most
the
work
hope
of
the
and
value
libraries
theatrical
that
of
Year
all
tion
addi-
welcome
who
will
Book
follow
the
theater.
B.
Forest
June
Hills,
15,
1921,
L.
America.
register
reference
written
acquaint
to
serve
of
in
center
Again
to
will
activities
producing
Chicago,
in
season
added
also
have
lication
pub-
the
since
We
the
short
and
casts
produced
volume.
of
record
complete
with
plays
previous
the
1920-21,
157
which
the
prove
the
the
on
with
of
season
S5mopses
chapter
included
again
I.,
M.
THE
BEST
PLAYS
THE
LAST
SEASON
York.
offers
and
and
the
comedies
scoring
written,
theatrically
with
it
Statistically
like
who
during
friends
shown
the
from
averaged
the
456
creditable
weeks
honk-honk
and
than
successful
play
the
of
the
starting
September
the
quick
as
family
if
four-
and
bus
formance
six-perwould
anything.
August
be
The
prominent,
and
through
turned
157
count
we
and
conspicuously
continuing
the
spectacle,
Which
meant
as
every
visiting
that
each,
failures.
early
and
their
Hippodrome
if it
again
play
new
find, too,
two-
and
August
and
We
the
average
was
of
Yorkers
produced
plays
those
to
season
was
performances
with
grand
plays
there
New
of
run
of
the
between
that
hi;nterland.
Times,"
all-season
American
characteristics,
157
were
means
showings
runs
several
to
ninety-eight
"Good
There
which
year,
day
other
thing,
some-
rather
interesting
an
(elitaiinating Sundays)
Jime
in
was
statistics.
the
for
an
simply
and
it is
was
imitation.
inspires
that
because
Largely
important.
it
were
honestly
characters
hang
natural
the
of
hits
dealing
the
count
several
New
to
That
war.
greatest
native
which
on
however,
that
the
truthfully
is
does,
of
theaters
concerning
following
fact
the
peg
aHbi
year
YORE
in
year
familiar
comedy
NEW
another
reaction
psychological
American
IN
comedy
Which
frayed
the
was
year
1920-1921
OF
the
the
first
until
the
family's
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
trade
the hotel
sent
lures, and
thoughts to suburban
chester
Westand
through
Island
up
Long
taxi-ing over
three
interesting
those
There
were
County.
recordthe
the
from
hold-overs
previous season
added
performances
443
breaking "Lightnin'," which
Gold
"The
Diggers,"
the
to
763 previously given;
418 performances
which
played for an additional
was
find it interesting to note,
We
for 428.
and
"Irene"
plays offered
new
there
twenty-one
were
too, that
the greatest number
of August, 1920,
during the month
And
it
month
dtiring the year.
presented in any one
that
productions never
August
not
long ago
was
so
"
nmnbered
The
opening.
season's
York
New
and
months,
visitors
deal
had
was
filled with
the
were
While
eager
European
travel
was
cut
tourists
during
the
summer
realize that
to
managers
made
entertained
be
to
a
by putting
planned for September
is the
of
hurrying
this
for
first
of money
leader"
four.
or
responsible
wab
war
three
than
more
favorite
forward
the
and
October.
game
of
the
the
off
these
great
productions they
the
"Follow
producers
of
plays,
half dozen
another
following there were
So
has
the
custom
to
experiment.
try the August
fixed.
become
temporarily fixed, and is likely to remain
for vacation
August always has been a popular month
the weather
visitors in New
is usually cool
York, and
playgoing possible.
enough to make
have also emboldened
The
the
successes
August
in
producers of summer
plays to try their fortunes
There
six new
as
July and even
early as June.
were
last June
in July.
is
and
nine
Which
plays shown
and
also
the
season
new
record.
But
not
many
of
them
amounted
being confined
mostly to vaudeville
revues.
Late
the new
edition of Mr.
saw
Jtme, 1920,
Ziegfeld's
"national
institution," "The
FoUies," and
a
new
Winter
Garden
"Cinderella
revue,
Broadway,"
on
which
the
ran
through
summer.
July brought
one
to
much,
THE
SEASON
his
negro
NEW
Roy
Cohen's
stories
and
noveltyjOctavus
from
IN
YORK
"Come
acted
Seven,"
by
made
white
cast
with
burnt
variously smeared
cork; a fairly good
musical
Poor
Little Ritz Girl," and
two
comedy, "The
stock-exchange melodramas,
"Opportunity," by Owen
Davis, and "Crooked
Gamblers,"
by Samuel
Shipman
Percival
and
There
in the August
outstanding successes
and Dolly Byrne's "Enter
Madame,"
and
Rinehart's
"The
Mary Roberts
three
were
Gilda Varesi
list
"
Hopwood
Avery
and
Bat"
All
WUde.
Emerson
Porter
three
the
through
ran
Browne's
"The
and
season
Bad
Man."
"The
Bat,"
Americans
"The
wood-Rinehart
they adapted
riotous
and
Hopwood
did
he
imported, though
which
France,"
not
in
act
Ditrichstein
Leo
Hop-'
it; another
which
collaboration, "Spanish Love,"
from
the
"Ladies
Spanish;
Night,"
rather
Turkish-bath
common
from
rewrote
manuscript
of
Charlton
and
is
which,
plajnng;
"Happy-Go-Lucky,"
had
been
a
Bloomsbury,
great success
"Tilly
of
London
tickled
whiqh
farce
Andrews
still
which
the
the
crowd
so
much
it
that
as
"
but
which
failed
New
please
to
in
Yorkers,
fair-to-middlin'
entertainment
carried
Bonnet,"
develop
Village
Of
the
the
much
through a
pleasant little
strength, and
which
creditable
run;
melodrama
the
Belasco
that
annual
duction
pro-
"Blue
did
not
"Greenwich
Follies."
nineteen
failures
plays
more
were
though three of
Young's "Little
that
the
Old
latter
New
came
in during September
notable
than
did
well
very
York"
the
"
Rida
successes,
Johnson
running through
till
of
back
"The
it
before
credit
his first
able
convinced
that
he
run
had
It
shop"
that
from
Labor
the
and
192
scored
and
Crowd,"
burlesque,
boosting, he was
least
quasi-success. So
a
Tavern's"
right to succeed
the spring after its original
leading
the
engagement
1,000
cancelled
those
all
who
"The
all
companies
its labor-union
and
like
called
showings to
In
September
touring.
defeat as an independent
had
himself.
r61e
Mr.
that
Cohan,
either
be
must
classified
be
membership
or
the risk of being boycotted by
run
he
associates, the
announced
his
as
the
Federation
retirement
from
the
for
planned a busy season
thing
someprepared, he said, to engage
was
for his various
actors
enterprises. But
his contracts
with
the players engaged,
musical
presenting a new
were
comedy
field.
1921-1922,
save
Edgar
Equity
that
"
producing
he
in
second
hereafter
non-Equity,
Equity and
of
success
and
season,
melodramatic
assuming
this
Chicago
ciation's
Equity Assodiscotu-aged by the Actors'
ultimatum
regarding the so-called "Equity
and
cast
of "The
ended,
angered
"
the
the
at
it back
brought
during
was
into
he
was
by consistent
which,
develop
to
and
with
success
Tavern,"
"The
sent
was
met
George M. Cohan
producer with "Genius
debatable
with
staying through
Mirage," which
it, also
Selwyn's
its
Stranger,"
"Welcome
June;
1920-1921
OP
PLAYS
BEST
THE
He
O'Brien
had
Girl,"
playing
at
the
time
in
Boston.
Other
Woman
Anglin
Edward
September
of
plays that
did
"The
well were
very
fine art
of Margaret
which
the
Bronze,"
carried through
performances;
252
Knoblock's
"One,"
Frances
with
drama,
psychic
Guest
Starr; William
of Honor";
Hodge's "The
an
attractive
musical
for
which
play, "Honeydew,"
Efram
Zimbalist, the violinist,wrote
the musical
score,
and
"Three
Live
Ghosts," an
amusing after-the-war
The
comedy.
failures, which, as said, were
notable
for one
reason
or
another, included Booth
Tarkington's
SEASON
THE
Americanization
IN
NEW
YORK
play, "Poldekin,"
which
George
Thomas
Arliss could
Dixon's
Lincoln
not
save;
play,
Man
"A
of the People," and
"Merchants
of Venus,"
and
a
brightly written
interesting social satire by
Alan
comedian.
Brooks, a vaudeville
notable
for its successes
October
as
was
as
September
had
been
First
Year,"
for
its
which
failures.
Frank
even
Craven's
"The
Man
Mandel
are
the
former,
"
and
the
are
World."
credited
with
Otto
the
Harbach
book
and
and
and
lyrics
Everett
Augustin MacHugh
Ruskay with the plot of the latter,but naturally every
the Cohanesqueries that made
with
credits Cohan
one
the spectacular
for their success.
This was
the month
"Mecca
staged at the Century, and credited with
was
and
colorful
impressive of similar
being the most
back
Fred
Stone
came
entertainments, and the month
to his worshipful following with
"Tip Top," from the
forced
to retire in May
he finally was
cast of which
of
bone in his foot doing one
after he had broken
a small
also
Guild
Theatre
The
dances.
his eccentric
began
"The
its season
the 4th with
Treasure,"
a
Jewish
on
moderate
success.
a
was
Pinski, which
play by David
of the Rialto
most
gossips were
During November
than
rather
in performances
interested
plays. This
month
a
the
comparatively
Jacob Ben-Ami,
was
his
youthful star of the Jewish Art theater, made
the English stage in a moderately convincing
debut
on
from
Grosman
domestic
tragedy translated by Samuel
of the
In one
two
Swedish
the
of Sven
or
Lange.
of the play Ben-Ami's
scenes
expertly builded dramatic
not
positively electrical,and though he may
acting was
of
in
many
entitled
been
have
immediately
the
About
actors.
Provincetown
the
time
same
more
EngUsh-speaking
of
rank
front
the
to
his
lifted him
critics gave
emotional
praise
fulsome
all the
to
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
one-act
play
Players presented a weirdly effective
called
"The
Emperor
O'Neill's
from
pen
Eugene
of the
is that
title r61e, which
The
negro
Jones."
island tribe of blacks, was
Sea
of a South
"emperor"
Charles
named
GUpin, and
played by a colored actor
effectively played that within a comparatively short
so
its discovery of him
time
the
town
buzzing with
was
not
Here, too, praise was
really "great" actor.
as
a
have
it might
as
thoughtfully tempered
as
been,_but
is no
there
denying Mr.
Gilpin credit for a striking
The
effective
performance.
and, dramatically, most
it
later moved
to an
theater, where
uptown
play was
There
bit of a teapot
continued
until spring.
was
a
the Drama
stirred up when
League, seeking to
tempest
reward
those
had
who
contributed
significantly
most
Gilpin among
its invited
dinner
Certaia
outraged members
guests.
wrote
to the officers of the league protesting against the
with
his white
and
brothers
at table
seating of a negro
this served
the broader-minded
to arouse
sisters, and
members
of the league's action.
to a spirited defense
The
sensation,
story became
a
first-page newspaper
and
no
dramatic
the
to
much
was
barriers
of
there
and
had
the
The
written
about
race
creed.
year
but
manner,"
England
plays
House,"
frequently
in which
that
the
art
As
result
know
of the
with
'him
similar
all-white
included
Bernard
troversy
con-
the
at
guest
down
sat
a
should
that
honored
an
at
300
Actor
where
tion
celebra-
before.
November
"Heartbreak
was
persons
i,ooo
been
and
or
Gilpin
Mr.
dinner
included
season,
"did
also
somewhat
brilliant
the
not
muddled
"fantasia
title of the
know
how
Shaw's
but
in the
play stands
to
live"
esting
inter-
Russian
for
before
the
the
THE
and
war,
SEASON
discovered
left to it
was
Guild
it achieved
and
Kummer
Roland
romantic
all that
the
cast
called
die."
to
Clare
performances.
125
comedy
how
was
play beautifully
smarjfclywritten
and
"Rollo's
splendidly
Wild
Oat,"
performance was
mended,
highly comThomas'
"Just Suppose," a pretty
E.
based
play
during
popular
"that
least it knew
at
of
run
Young's
A.
and
that
YORK
crisis
staged and
little
entertaining
NEW
that
that
offered
also
in which
in
the boast
Theatre
The
IN
the
on
visit
the
of
ditched
of
out
Prince
the
had
man
young
sent
rumor
of
Wales
that
dinner
state
ington
Wash-
to
adventuring
go
heroine
Rives'
new
in
with
November,
much
public was
revealed
"The
as
in
something
of
of
the
plays
best
of the
of the
ten
from
also
the
and
quality
and
made
the
debut
her
Alice
and
Jimmie,"
Errol
of
many
to
the
in
you
may
with
our
the
among
of
list
Sacha
"Mary
for
in this volume.
hit.
December
Barrie's
judge
own
version
English
Sir James
of which
"Sally,"
and
were
yourself
December
of
success
musical-comedy
with
Marilynn Miller
years,
the
featured
"
included
season
included
excerpts
brought
year,
Leon
White
have
we
"Deburau,"
the
the
Pauper"
Goddard's
Charles
being credited
Barker's
"
Rose,"
and
stir without
offerings Granville
Guitry's
the
of
goodly section
was
a stirringmelodrama
play called
musical
and
music-hall
comedienne,
popular French
knows
as
supplied with what
Broadway
created
conspicuously shy of wardrobe,
but
Two
; there
Dickey
Wing;" Frances
Delysia, a
abundantly
"pep,"
Paul
in
star
Prince
"The
which
taken
Broken
of
in
its cast
and
the
admiration
in
June.
stage, after
three
of the
Madge
years
handsome
crowds
Kennedy
spent
in
the
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
in "Cornered";
movies, and scored a personal success
in
annual
her
made
appearance
the
popular Mitzi
Billy," and_
"Lady
play called
pleasant musical
of
dramatization
Lulu
acclaimed,
after
the
had
of
prize
the
the
was
also
the
into
"happy
it
form
fine
notably
the
won
play
American
best
list
success
and
altered
new
as
Si,ooo
immediately
not
was
way
somewhat
In
There
year.
its
been
attached.
Pulitzer
It
stage.
worked
but
text
ending"
the
the
reached
"
B ett,
"Miss
novel,
popular
Gale's
Zona
of
of
revival
series of
at
"Mixed
a
Marriage"
John Ervine's
and
with
Wycherley
Margaret
special matinees,
a
Duncan
leading r61es, and
playing the
Augustin
of "The
revival
imported English company
by an
here
failed to duplicate over
Beggar's Opera," which
St.
the
The
best
has
years
of
part
Arliss, who
ruler
he
had
has
of
others
that
of
since
Gods."
the
were
comedy
drama,
Mitchell
was
the
with
for
There
also
were
popular, including
"The
Champion,"
many
critics,
leading r61e,
m3fthical kingdom,
he
played Zakkuri
was
honors
dramatic
in the
found
thirteen
who
author,
of London's
dean
the
sinister
Daughter
the
between
been
George
list of
January
Green
Goddess,"
the
"The
divided
evenly
and
in
play
Archer's
William
in London.
achieved
it had
success
the
in
that
best
"The
several
typical American
in
which
Grant
Jean," a lively
French
and
Artlyor Byron
comedy, with
Margaret
Lawrence
"Wake
as
Up,
Jonathan!",
co-stars;
written
Professor
and
Hatcher
Elmer
Rice
by
Hughes
of Coliunbia
University for Mrs. Fiske; George Tyler's
revival of "Erminie,"
with Francis
Wilson
and
DeWolf
Hopper
featured, and
"In
big French
a
melodrama,
the
Night
The
Watch."
"Macbeth"
figured, the
Laurette
"Transplanting
star;
debacle
revival
Taylor
of
again
in which
"Peg
in
the
O'
Lionel
My
leading
Barrymore
with
Heart,"
r61e, and
of
THE
SEASON
"Romance,"
features
"Macbeth."
The
of Arthur
for
year
The
the
revival
the
were
made
was
Hopkins,
Edmund
Robert
YORK
outstanding
had been
productions. Much
been hoped for the Barrymore
had
more
NEW
Keane,
February
of and
expected
Doris
with
of the
IN
and
the
Jones, both
trader
designed by
scenery
of whom
tion
direc-
the
had
done
much
III"
of "Richard
the
John Barrymore 's revival
before, but the result was
unhappily disappointing.
scenic
modem
to
setting was
extremely modem,
point, in fact, of being weirdly fantastic, and
neither
audiences
result
that
the
critics would
nor
revival
withdrawn
was
it, with
accept
after
the
twenty-
Miss
Taylor's revival of "Peg,"
eight performances.
after the play had
been
of her repertoire for eight
out
was
inspired by a desire to re-establish it in the
years,
the
before
turned
to the
over
public mind
script was
Miss
Keane
mance"
"Romen.
moving-picture
brought
her success
back, also after eight years, because
with
had
play in London
the
the
kept
there was
alive, and she believed
a
it, which
see
proved to be the case.
interest
public
new
in
to
eager
"Romance"
it
tinued
con-
for 88.
The
performances and "Peg"
Theatre
Guild successfully produced an interesting light
Mr.
Passes
Pim
By," written by A. A.
English comedy,
for
106
"
Mihie,
for
Mr.
Ziegfeld
the
New
editor
years
many
introduced
two
of
London
Punch,
frolics
new
the
on
and
roof
of
Amsterdam.
productions
comparatively late-season
Crothers'
Rachel
that proved a big popular success
was
in the list of
have
included
"Nice
we
People," which
ness
of its timelithe best plays of the year
largely because
One
of
of
the
theme.
"Mary
John
In
Stuart,"
Drinkwater,
"Abraham
Lincoln"
had
The
the
Harris
William
second
historical
been
one
"Stuart"
"Lincoln,"
of the
by
whose
of
sensations
opus,
either
sented
pre-
play
English poet-dramatist
the
the
previous season.
failed to duplicate
also
March
in
however,
quality
or
THE
lo
and
popularity,
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
forty perfomi-
after
withdrawn
was
ances.
and
years,
many
two
were
Hero,"
"The
Pottle,
by Emery
so
proved
stories, which
written
also
which
as
interesting
curious, but
a
with
the
to
stage_ as
his
of
newest
Ditrich-
Leo
season.
the
quickly
was
"great
in
called
"Toto,"
comedy
studies, a French
he was
presented
successful, and Arthur
Byron
lover"
coming
the
town
to
came
returned
be
attraction
"regular"
stein
will
and
withdrawn
it
promising
short
of
writer
successful
drama
after-the-war
an
and
tragedy
ends
as
domestic
drama
called
farce
begins
that
Ghost
"The
Between."
Only
Arc,"
in
new
both
of
which
This
pronounced.
and
John
Barrymore,
family pride, decided
Mrs.
John Barrymore
was
de
Lime."
"The
It
Man
Who
staged
it
proved
entertainment.
weeks
was
and
her
ventures
was
the
month,
inspired
to
personal
too, that
doubt
play
written
(Michael Strange)
free adaptation
of
a
but
Laughs,"
though
contained
discursive
It
and
was
originallyassigned
popularity. There
was
an
far
from
farce
"Clair
Hugo's
it
tively
attrac-
through
largely by the
amusing
by
by
Victor
was
effective
carried
it
called
well-written
many
Ethel
no
partly
present
success
passages
dramatic
the
eight
Barr3rmore
called
"Just
,
'
THE
SEASON
YORK
NEW
IN
ii
Married,"
and
Hampden,
Walter
presenting
began
late-season
revival
of
Venice"
Most
of
of
were
one
his
to
with
and
and
"The
of
June,
Whirl
into
performances
playgoers
called
in
"Two
of
"Gold,"
fare
Waltz,"
Chocolate
the
being
it
was
was
few
soon
vamped
re-
late
panded
ex-
trial
O'Neill
Eugene
too
the
York"
revue.
it
most
Whirl"
New
an
in
during
latter
of
of
Girls
Broadway
the
given
and
Last
added,
Belle
but
though
proved
"The
May-
type,
Little
were
Garden
also
in
"The
1921"
York,"
"The
Winter
heavy
list
others,
New
of
were
wrote
there
two
of
made
who
of
those
to
version
tragedy
summer
"Snapshots
days
He.
Merchant
"The
operetta,
Straus,
the
and
popular,
"The
"summer-show"
Oscar
Of
Blue"
"normal"
received.
productions
splendid
by
Soldier."
early
thirteen
score
tour,
repertoire.
so-called
proved
and
cessfully
suc-
on
well
was
Shrew"
the
the
with
that
"The
been
repertoire
engagement
"Macbeth"
added
later
Shakespearean
had
who
to
withdrawn.
interest
A
"
producing
is not
its
of
its
for
manger
other
are
its
city chap
No
and
dramatist
rural
its
environs;
is
one
and
in
for
of
available
of
excepting
its
of
as
given
judgment
emphasis
and
creative
the
that
power
opportunity,
in
the
opposition
for
The
New
York
hand,
second-
product
Stamford,
when
Conn.,
the
are
not
purposes.
has
Chicago
American
such
insignificance
York,
when
for
the
then,
and
theater.
"try-out"
or
experimental
credentials,
book
year
City
the
York,
take
we
not
scene-makers
New
by
occasional
an
Atlantic
for
What
and
York,
save
theaters
is made
and
York
New
inhabitants
in
disdain
players
Our
is
reluctance.
with
3,000,000
odd-jobbers
America
New
our
as
Thespis
But
preferring
is
things
worthy
The
producer.
but
are
in
among
politan
metro-
sculpture,
and
Chicago.
the
Chicago
and
Capital
the
sounds,
theatrical
costumers
and
and
sights
drama
in
lives
its
from
departs
thoroughly
studios.
and
and
cities
music
communities,
libraries
confining
arts,
province,
major
pictures,
books,
suburban
from
come
The
negative.
the
is
it
also
but
American
an
towered
the
to
sources.
of
urban
most
men,
as
merely
value
activities
haunts
in
the
only
important
busy
Chicago
is of
"
center
Tribune)
Chicago
the
about
CHAPTER
drama
of
Critic
(Dramatic
Hammond
Percy
By
CHICAGO
IN
SEASON
THE
to
drama?
as
of
Slight,
be
may
in
the
we
to
made
cities
other
appear
that
indeed,
regarding
outside
theater.
show
in
At
New
times,
independence
an
of
New
York.
THE
liked,
Go-Lucky,"
We
SEASON
for
instance, the
and
Miss
"The
audacities,
poohed
and
Mr.
being
not
as
sprightly
with
us
"Too
such
George's
"good
hodden
other
hand,
show," and
Husbands"
Many
But
as
yond
"Be-
pooh-
was
the
cut
rule
in
neglected
O'Neill's
the
in minor
essay
both
Lady,"
on
recreation.
as
13
Eugene
Horizon,"
the
CHICAGO
Grace
Ruined
Capital.
the
IN
the
smart
figure
no
staple
modities,
com-
Garden
"Follies," the Winter
camalias, Mr. A. H. Woods'
ruddy farces. Miss Ethel
Mr.
Otis
Barrymore,
Skinner, Miss
Jane Cowl, the
of Mr.
Belasco
and
the fleshly and
expert exhibitions
beautiful
Comstock
and
Gest
orgies of the Messrs.
and
accepted
are
of the
Chicago
four
them
and
"
and
"The
"The
and
and
will remain
Mrs.
Fair."
to
"Beyond
so.
"Mamma's
(hideously
last in New
known
are
us
the
Affair"
miscast
selection
Mantle's
York
Famous
Jest"
Bells,"
Eva"
Mr.
before
year
last year
"Abraham
and
"Declassee,"
Clegg"
hearsay,
"Wedding
of
plays
eight
saw
of
Of
approved.
best
ten
the
as
and
Chicago)
in
"Jane
only by
Horizon,"
"Adam
went
for
naught.
It is time
not
upbringing.
with
Lynne
has
which
wUl
say,
Mr.
Broadway
Haymow."
taken
are
Fontanne;
been
under
to
three
and
New
York
in
number
whose
"Sonya,"
announced,
Woods,
Chicago,
were
and
bom,
if
which, their
this year
for
"Dulcy,"
metropolitan
"
"Gertie's
Garter,"
will be done
its manager,
on
says
caption less indelicate, "Up in the
"Dulcy"
is the
admirable
most
of these
horizon
Yorkers, scanning the western
for fresh
to
entertainment,
will, it seems
prudent
and
subtle
reasonably
predict, find it in this gay
and
Kaufman
Connelly, journalists
comedy
by Messrs.
operas,
of
and
be
plays which
in
season
They
not
the
report
conceived, last
managers
cast
to
New
New
York,
inspired by
character
in
Mr.
York
New
in the
accomplish
"Dulcy"
of
authors
The
Tribune.
1920-1921
column
humorous
P. Adams'
Franklin
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
14
an
of
fun
they make
undertaking fraught with peril when
the
the
institution
chatty bromide
as
sturdy an
so
it is cheaper
that
informs
you
devastating oracle who
"
to
than
move
is
three
of
none.
of
many
Miss
Their
task
is
and
is
broadest
of
under
fun
our
the
who
those
difficult
others'
of
snap
for
platitudes.
title
the
play
the
veil
of
it is often
own
with
impish beauty
an
feelings
between
will
who
Fontanne,
York,
of
slosh
is company,
first because
two
hazardous,
because
second
the
that
the
wounding
distinguish
to
us
epigrams
and
and
satirized
are
rent
of
danger
the
pay
to
of
r61e
in
New
whose
lovely bore
into
ennui; and
inflame
her
an
acquaintances
angry
in
characters
the
though her trite babbling infuriates
and
the
tertained.
enhappy
play, it left the Chicago audience
of gold "Dulcy"
Stupid, but with a heart
business
has
a
passion for interfering in her husband's
impersonate
affairs,and
play
is
she
at
reduces
of those
one
the
house
his
demon
affairs
the
course
of conversation
"If
with
is
woman
to
hostesses
hospitality, insisting
who
bridge for those
In
which
party
on
is the
desperate
who
golf
for
the
wish
tennis
or
of the
party
she
such
asphodels
good-looking, no
in their
sedentary
a
ride
drapes
as
She
mess.
stressful
are
of the
scene
and
back.
horse-
on
the
tomb
these:
jtury wiU
convict
her."
"My
"All
"The
"When
books
are
my
best
friends."
our
one."
"Unlucky
These
the
visiting magnate
whose
business
aid
her
annoy
husband
THE
SEASON
she
the
IN
negotiations
borrowed
borrowed
from
bungling
ends
victories
for her
comfortable
and
aided
those
to
that
by
by touches
her.
Dulcy's
or
twist, in commercial
the play becomes
addicted
the
It
of
success
trivial
to
mischief-making.
suggest
tions
machina-
bit, perhaps,
from
so
Fontanne's
her
Taylor,
and
for
of
comic
husband;
Miss
result
Taylor
innocent
course,
the
shrewd
defense
loquacities
fair, of
in
ruins.
to
Laurette
Latirette
by
15
she
at
wide-eyed amazement
is exquisite comedy,
touches
CHICAGO
is
not
"Dulcy"
in
hurt
But
Chicago is due to its consoling moral.
as
of
of wisdom
favorite
words
we
are
by the expos6
our
stale
that
as
pleased to discover
insipidities,we
are
the
be
crowned
with
even
emptiest of heads
may
tritunph. The
acting of "Dulcy"
suggests anthems
and
hat
Kelly is a participant in a
small but effective r61e, and John Westley's impersonation
of his
of the patient but desperate husband
is one
the
As
irritated
quiet achievements.
pearl magnate
has moments
of superior pantomime,
and
Wallis Clark
waving.
Gregory
Howard
Lindsay's
scenario
.writer
recital, to
the
was
both
in
best
its writing
Miss
dramatic
Russian
that
an
Edith
and
from
her
him
and
Imperial
as
she
returns
to
to
his
her
Nazareth
romantic
is about
prince'slonely life as
chastity, it is said,
consecrated
His
of
the
year.
toy, fashioned
belongs in the
great
Sonya,
last
love
comely
of
but
She, entering
potential concubine, retains
royal
a
is the
"Dulcy"
foreign model,
romantic
travesty.
playing.
of this
out
It
nursery.
Prince
its
ornamental
Ellis
of
the
"Sin"
eight-reeler entitled
Chicago season's acting episodes
and
came
bit
of
the
of the
funniest
burlesque
delicious
of
music,
thing
"Sonya,"
by
is
delicate
and
circus.
at
the
sad
kingly
load
of
humble
feats
ending leaves
splendid cares
among
the
tan
and
bark
thing,
flying rings.
the
The
OF
1920-1921
play
is rather
of
diction
humid
the
with
lush
PLAYS
BEST
THE
i6
mellow
regality.
stage
to the
clothing common
is somewhat
perhaps, its theme
because,
scepter set; and
playgoer's chill eye
tardy, it left the Chicago
its hero, the bashful
In Chicago
undimmed
by tears.
acted
by Mr. Otto Kruger,
heir to all the Russias, was
and
by
gymnast,
its heroine, the
seraphic dancer
and
Miss
characteristics
chief
beginning
are
the
and
pomp
diverted
ambrosial
Heming.
Violet
The
the
in
It is dressed
by
morbid
panoply
and
sunsets
of
disinclination
of the
the
to
the
to
is
He
court.
and
dumb-bells
of
at
and
women
Muscovite
use
r61e
hero's
the
he
life sexual.
the
and
princely ceremonies
the
to
society of
this imperial celibate
To
accustom
of prolonging a waning
djmasty)
girls (for the purpose
hits upon
of Saturn,
the prime minister, a wily son
an
athletic
ballet of young
He organizes an
odd expedient.
interests
He
then
and
as
disguises them
boys.
women
and
introduces
the
prince in their muscular
prowess
all, into the prince's apartments,
Sonya, the fairest of them
Which
indicates
the
her
as
a man.
announcing
of
and
devices
comprehensive
European
complex
diplomacy and European
plajrwrights.
while
has
Sonya
interesting adventures
some
present
in the palace.
evil prime minister
tries to acquire
The
her and fails.
The
d}dng czar, all wheezy and limping,
her a ghastly visit and
scolds
her for putting spring
pays
into
flowers
the
A
imperial vases.
grim grand duke,
in a fit of petulance, boots
her
silken
slipper across
the
and
of the
her.
room
lackeys is a spy upon
one
The
"covers
prince, finding belatedly that she is female
shrinks
from
her
little
for
the
face
good
with
of
kisses."
But
at
her
people, renounces
and
with
exits, chin
gleaming
up
broken-hearted, adjusts his showy
and
goes
forth
the
to
his
dismal
end,
his
eyes,
love
while
coronation
crowning.
Sonya,
Mr.
and
he,
cloak
Klaw
THE
is the
SEASON
and
producer
IN
the
CHICAGO
author's
17
is Gabryela
name
Zapolska.
"Gertie's
Garter," the
btine,is Avery
Hopwood
in Mabel's
"Up
Instead
Room"
is the
farce
newest
Donald
Dawn
before
farce.
play
their
their
married
lives
does
used
of
be
to
naughtiness.
Miss
to
Hazel
influence
she
throughout
other
tries
The
lose it in the
not
of
in the
persons
of its presence
him.
to
of
Hopwood's
which
given
to
inimical
give it back
she
has
marriages
the
to
why
MacDonald
detail
undershirt
symbol
starry tri-
new
of Mr.
elastic
as
the
theme
obsolete
Fearing
both
on
of
the
in this
capitalizing
underwear.
women's
item
other
wonders
spectator
garbage pail
the
put it in
or
the
is that
it is
duller
its semi-failure
for
The
way.
The
in
"Up
The
remainder
is Miss
Miss
significance,and there
as
a naughty
thing than
is
no
is in
coming
the
wide
and
in
dramatic
the
its carnal
garter
virgin'swimple.
of
chronicle
again
tion.
explana-
lost
interest
in the most
The
done
has
more
littoral.
Dawn's
Dawn,
there
of this
innocent
Room"
Mabel's
other
garter, says
this
on
sheer
the
season
necrology.
grave
mark
Were
going of its other elements.
it not for this chapter you
ander
Alexwould
know
that
not
Carr
appeared for a few evenings in Chicago
in something
entitled
in which
he
"The
Dreamer"
strove
to
industriously, but with no
bridge
success,
field.
the
chasm
would
You
on
between
the
"Cognac",
part
in which
returned
Miss
Tell
of
the
Mr.
Tom
from
and
Mann
learn,
never
ex-crusader,
Olive
Louis
David
War-
this
tricity
eccen-
for
save
year-book's compiler, of
Powers
played a dreamy
the
impersonated
wars,
a
and
in
light lady
which
of
the
THE
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England
soil.
the
and
first
acclaim
under
produced
Miss
after
toes
feet
Playhouse
York
is
a
night
and
first,
of
the
of
of
out
in
resuscitation
the
New
embalmed
be
can
up
having
already
it.
set
It
is
however,
duty,
following
the
Year
prairie
them
that
Here
pretty
Through"
Bat"
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Famous
have
the
selfish
usual
"The
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Fair
which,
sane
promise,
com-
of
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the
by
them,
year,
eased
suburbs;
and
city
cousin?
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but
say;
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expect
have
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"
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"Bab"
you
to
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Lincohi"
reason
least
of
approved
were
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"Abraham
lean
plays,
"Dulcy"
"The
of
"Declassee"
"Smilin'
list
policy
the
are
bad
sane
best
playgoer.
of
some
make
to
Book's
the
were
in
ttimed
r61e,
carried
these
with
aegis,
decomposition
drama,
Woman,"
to
was
its
None
Mr.
thereafter.
leading
and
two
or
improbable.
census
its
in
the
theater,
ambitious
Wood's
Mr.
Kershaw
Willete
Erlanger
"Women
solemn
with
produced
was
immediately
Morton's
Michael
in
dignified
subsiding
Blackstone,
it
for
learn
now
you
New
hostile
the
to
though
time,
most
our
1920-1921
"Self-Defense"
Of
last
at
OP
transplanted
estaminets,
Bordeaux
its
PLAYS
BEST
the
what
an
anguish
more
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of
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art.
torttuing
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ask
hour
from
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Tragi-Comedy
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is related
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of
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it
targets
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was
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within
block
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the
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David
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rights
the
"
fine
for
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evening
of
this
of
December
took
its
particular
and
impressively
most
American
stage
with
Jean
the
has
ever
popular
through
the
Gaspard
Debturau,
not
beautifully
by
London.
following
the
play's
the
to
and
1920,
only
but
as
as
staged
It
was
and
successes
for
production
The
season,
known.
prove
made
of
and,
23,
place,
to
version
months
stage.
play
the
Cochran
several
local
regularity
such
lively bidding
was
competitors
devoted
immediately
plays
his
outbid
custom,
preparation
Charles
which
dropping
enough
long
English
an
favorite
in
withdraw
to
there
to
for
Barker
Belasco
made
and
their
began
with
played
been
however,
Belasco
theater
range
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Vaudeville
Shells
decided
Guitry
temporarily.
the
of
in
Paris
the
get
its
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one
du
given.
of
two
or
young
players,
being
it in
to
"Big
so-called
while
that
playing
was
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was
Barker
just beginning
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to
Granville
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seemed
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play
were
with
Acts
Four
Guitry
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city
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or
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actor-author,
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Version
English
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the
of
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one
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soon
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was
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the
bered
numtinued
con-
winter.
the
19
hero
of this
tragi-comedy,
and
tomimist,
Paris
the
about
of
the
time
is
that
we
and
bass
as
drum
the
Sand,
the
on
Victor
Hugo,
known
to
"The
Lady
served
arm
of Alfred
and
the
all the
crowd
filters into
barker
and
the
as
theater
as
his
as
big
soon
be
seen
George
named
to
was
be
Marguerite Gautier
Marie, Duplessis who
for
'
knows
orchestra
as
as
later
model
theater, the
the
his
with
youth
who
the
"
said,
English-speaking
the
"
Camillia
it is
Dumas,
Musset;
crowd,
celebrities
world
playgoing
of the
attract
to
woman
young
folk
audience
the
waiting
is
de
the
artistic
prospective patrons
to
this gathering are
finished) in
is
reach
to
the
play, outside
in brass,"
"doubling
tune
troupe
harangue
to
tune
the
of
street
the
for
early nineteenth-century
such
the
of
barker
the
side
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up.
gathering
now
even
him
taking
are
opening
httle
the
at
literary and
the
the
of
beginning
is
orchestra,
(where the
say, is solemnly tooting a
theater
as
and
in
away
skill
however,
boulevards,
of
tucked
his
of
"Word
Paris.
of
time
the
appearing obscurely
theater,
Funambules
At
1839.
as
Pierrot
greatest
year
he is
play
the
the
as
popularity
his
of
peak
the
reached
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
20
'
as
the
' '
Camille.
of
last
heroine
the
trailing
them
lights
The
The
fade.
to begin.
play, 'Old Clo','" is about
audience
what
the
With
the
see
lights up again we
and
of the
is seeing of the
pantomime,
closing scenes
then
there
is another
change to the tiny auditorium
of the
is dispersing, gossiping
theater.
The
audience
"ad
lib," as the players have
it, of the play, of the
new
"two-act
of
weather,
Deburau,
As
edge.
in
the
from
the
The
receipts,
is the
the
the
bracket
the
biggest night
other,
who
rooms
the
actors,
discuss
enthusiasm
the
also
serves
lamps that
around
lamps
and
Funambules
of
will.
audiences
as
oil
taker
dressing
and
each
barker,
out
money
their
of
with
the
has
janitor,
as
serve
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as
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lights
foot-
as
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audience.
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in
francs
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oh, the
shock
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triumph
with
popular
more
they have
nice
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house.
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been
And
greatest impression.
she
pretty ?
well,
that
is the
'
And
they bound
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that,
then
to
agree
she
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pantomimist
come
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from
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makes
him
the
before
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wait
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will
boxes
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is
there
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and
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finally he
does
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talk
to
over
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Deburau.
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peeved
dressing room
others
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moves
for
there
he'll say:
and
There
see."
you
than
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asked
ladies
for
and
now,
late.
the
21
Act
with
the
stranger.
Deburau
Madame,
waiting
you
are
The
?
.
Lady
Yes, I
waiting
was
Deburau
To
me?
see
Lady
The
To
Or
rather
to
nobody
Remember,
It's uncanny
To
in
one
I
Or
thought
if you
hear
to
have
silence.
"
wove
speak.
you
hears
you
forgive
so
me
another
"
said
saw
close,
you
it might
break
the
well
one
.
you.
speak.
much
So, if I
see
?
,
spell.
THE
22
PLAYS
BEST
OF
1920-1921
Deburau
How
Of
good
nature
D'you
you!
to
be
able
Of
their
So
much
In
the
the
of
seem
one's
freak
tongue.
it?
I do
simple:
It's
to
were
square
pockets
to talk about
get them
whole
The
thing lies
for
she
that
could
from
listen
is
Duburau
the
great dea
theater.
the
Her
well, anywhere.
some
watch?
away
"
you
can
idea
But
"
as
for his
go
thread
the
listening.
lady's
comfortably
the
how
If you
better.
It is the
they
hold
to
follow
and
talk.
art
more
it must
sit among
friends
Your
I know
know
to
want
and
Go
of
Suppose
carriage
is in
important
lady queries.
isn't late
It
"
Deburau
No,
A
not
watch.
my
miniature
That
always
I hadn't
carry,
wasn't
{He
his
has
sure
for
fished
worlds.
a
Here
are!
we
little miniature
out
pocket.)
The
Lady
What
is it?
Deburau
As
My
painting,
wife!
of
not
course,
Pretty, isn't
much
of
catch!
she?
The
Lady
Very.
Deburau
Most
Looks
women
a
think
so.
little old-fashioned.
suppose
I wish
the
she
dress
were
here.
of
"DEBURAU"
if
But
Not
I'd
day you'd
one
of
now,
like
so
to
care
to
her
pay
You're
course.
you
23
in
her.
meet
visit
hurry
I
May
tell her
we
met?
May
give
these
her
roses
from
The
Lady
you?
What
roses?
Deburau
I
These
that
sent
you
me.
The
Lady
sent!
That
Deburau
thought
My manager
A^istaken.
so,
I've detained
you.
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I'm
little
satisfactory seen
more
wryly)
fear
The
No,
he's
I regret
mistakes.
all make
Deburau
That
I suppose
{Icily)
Lady
The
We
not
and
not
heard.
Lady
How
this sort
Good
night.
of
thing
Give
must
your
patience.
congratulations.
try your
wife
my
Deburau
Thank
you,
how
Another
I
swear
will.
{Then
to
himself)
absurd!
time
that
I'll do
it in
pantomime!
How
absurd,
THE
24
Again
Deburau
first time
for the
writes
for
has
he
"is
Janin,
the
revolutionized
breasts
in their
of
discuss
to
the
of Deburau
actor's
art,
in which
Debu-
own.
of
time;
our
given
us
new
most
pantomime."
that
in
inspires an envy
players they illyconceal
of
one
's fellow
veiled
Soon
another
arrives
congratulations.
interview
the great pantomimist,
to learn
something
his early days in the theater.
.
Journalist
I
My
to
Of
your
The
Of
am
journalist.
editor
Me
mount
...
ladder
of fame
that
you're
first appearance
your
at
now
the
top
of
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.
Deburau
On
Or
in the
The
world?
the
stage.
"Well, well,
occasions
two
weren't
far
so
apart!
Journalist
Really?
Pardon
What
stories
.
{He
makes
"Trained
Prom
his
the
Please
This
tell!
to
me
.
At
have
must
you
very
head
go
great
on.
note.)
in art
cradle."
of my
That
will
look
well
page.
I must
opportunity.
squeeze
You
been
just
"
his
actor
greatest
to
time
into
comes
another
sort
Pierrot, and
laudatory notice, this, and
the
this
has
great Jules Janin which
Journal des Debats, a criticism
the
rau,"
1920-1921
the
by
printed in
OF
players gather,
the
criticism
PLAYS
BEST
out
won't
the
last
mind?
drop
of
"DEBURAU"
25
Deburau
Not
It
bit, if
amusing.
"
in
Trained
find
you
I never
did!
from
art
Well, I hadn't
If
in
bom
father
his
goes
enough
forget them,
to
his
circus,
bent
heard.
I've
so
little tent.
the
the
dancer
father's
owned
took
called
was
Constanza.
at
tight-rope
been
mother
He
hard
grandfather's,
a
ran
My
here
Rumania,
was
had
Which
He
say?
knows!
was
And
things,
tried
I've
God
My
these
recall
Though
I
cradle!
bid
you
Me
my
door.
the
at
money
Wonder."
"Equilibrian
Journalist
Very apt,
and
Brothers
upon
word!
my
sisters?
Deburau
I had
I'm
making
four.
Journalist
please go ahead.
notes;
Deburau
Five
of
And
father
And
mother
must
Though
There
Believe
then,
us
made
are
me,
and
him,
his best
trick
greater
than
three
boys
six.
seven,
count
girls and
two
the
he
for
was
to
joys,
tramping
roads, Russian
All roads, you
know,
pony
did
his
pull us
eight.
tricks,
from
early and
roads, Polish
German
are
endless.
town.
to
town
late
roads.
.
And
light.
life weren't
In
day
hungry
night.
at
quite friendless.
felt
looked
oh, he
brother
eldest
My
tent
empty
an
never
we
return!
to
after
came
Still, I think
But
loads
Our
poor.
were
we
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
26
...
down
the
On
Prom
flying leap
used
Ladies
It
to
like
Then,
he
to
With
So
smile
that's
how
Crouched
For
you'll
the
That's
Not
He
him
remember
to
life he
he
went
that
very
out,
crooked,
went
brother
r61e
a
an
too.
daily,
death
face
to
tight-rope, supple
leave
second
But
thtunp,
heart
my
know,
you
net.
now.
and
strong.
wrong.
won't
off
wiped
It's
you?
slate.
Although
My
like
his
in
the
air
the
bow.
on
later
But
feel
to.
through
sweep
into
and
and
jump
to
always
fright.
on
he'd
something,
face it gaily.
means
And
fix
meant
trapeze
I could
Why,
him
swallow,
the
Round
with
scream
on.
affair.
great
see
spot that
The
It
to
fine
was
was
tricks
his
did
he
rope
might.
he
Well
us.
high
the
His
of
rest
that's
could
I believe
in
rather
always
jumped
straight.
tumbler.
humbler,
little rascal.
attractive
joint
was
he
his
dance
if he'd
on
body
his
tried
he
couldn't
hands,
he
as
could
twist
I dance
have
any
on
waj'.
toes,
my
danced
on
his
nose.
Such
Such
genius!
a
good-for-nothing! AH thrown
away!
but worked
If he'd
of shirking his task
instead
all
The
time, if he'd but given his talents
their scope,
He
could
have
Europe.
made
himself
the
finest
serpent
in
"DEBURAU"
27
Journalist
Excellent, just what
wanted
know!
to
Deburau
eldest
My
sister
was
pretty.
very
{To Robillard)
You
Utterly
grief;
to
Women
you
The
youngest
And
I
that
Whatever
of
fool
the
went
Whoever
pity!
also?
quite well.
married
was
out
some
slack
the
on
the
family!
it
wrong
was
kept balanced,
always
always
me.
fell.
finely
For
and
not
nearly
quite breaking my
I believe
I never
brought off a trick.
lout, clumsy lout, clumsy lout!"
"Clumsy
Oh,
I have
beaten
been
"
"
And
dinner
the
many's
That
practice on
(She'd bring me
me
Might make
I used
to
Well
But
time,
an
I've
more
without
tummy
empty
scraps
gone
neck.
afterwards, my
imperfect still.
poor
mummy)
pink tights.
they'd been pink.
wear
once
come
best
the
was
if
as
Such
has
She
you?
seems
to.
please leave
danced
was
it
but
bound
were
Will
She
her, don't
remember
that
provides
shades
besides.
wonderful
things, had given some
and
And
put to rights
they'd been so darned
and
bits of yellow and
With
gray
green
it was
That
precious hard to say
Which
were
mending.
tights and which
were
has
his rights;
of us
But
the meanest
And
those
pink tights.
own
were
rny
very
All
I have
We
From
them
tramped,
town
I think.
still somewhere
we
to
tramped
town.
on
those
roads
unending
28
THE
Lajdng
us
Under
Cold,
hedge,
oh
cold!
of
The
world
In
Of
those
the
That
was
That's
It
And
Still
slung so
land.
And,
makes
him
of
past
stUl
to
cheer
him.
and
tell you,
he
me,"
owes
the
debt's
first
fifteen
tale
Of
such
But
childish
they
btim
he
has
the
"Ah,
told
the
smiles
many
Robillard
sighs, when
those
silently,
tries
paid
not
For
fold
particle.
every
beginnings.
the
high in air
by one.
one
shining sun.
sisters, all
my
his
my
is to
see
beneath
rope
and
sea
sometimes
tented
old
free.
were
we
rope.
world
that
over
all there
journalist
tight
whole
the
skies.
dead
up
figures black
against
fathers, my
brothers,
solemnly passing there.
My
1920-1921
shed.
mornings.
our
it stretches
Their
OF
some
wake
fine
dreams
my
in
or
didn't
we
One
PLAYS
down
wonder
BEST
years
trials.
deep
when
one
salts
the
wounds
of
the
ruck
with
tears.
For
Of
the
fifteen
next
neglect
and
climbing
out
misfortune.
Ah,
that
Shall
mean
boy
my
have
his
childhood's
own
joy
and
my
childhood's
joy
Both.
Such
He
my
has
already
You
know!
the
and
eyes
And
Swinging
fine
my
staid!
voice
my
with
way
and
left hand
his
hand.
so!
...
And
talk
then
with
"a
lady"
Deburau.
is annotmced.
little curtly he
barker
"DEBURAU"
has
who
stands
shown
her
waiting
under
illumine
left to
looks
and
girl,very
in that
the
the front
sees
young,
but
great
She
On
her
ears,
diamonds.
looks
her.
at
but
speaks
smile.
He
leave
they
is
offers
the
at
him
Act
The
is Marie
scene
in rose-colored
silks.
while
Deburau
talks
of his
great
love
with
dumb
.
that
which
The
never
ing
slow, entrancshe takes, and
curtain
her
that
he
in
were
is
he
known
has
since
first
Deburau
prisoner,
free
Set
That
on
know,
you
sudden
now
All
Into
Long
ago,
this
Nobody
been
And
what
Know
Our
that
happy."
fine day,
I
say.
quaint
that
is the
why.
me
guessing
destiny.
discovered
world.
told
one
me
possess
last I've
At
hurled
was
ever
I've
else to
nothing
cram
"I'm
one
shout
emotions
the
Why
Into
only
find
and
.
So
can
free
he's
use
falls.
It is
dream."
met.
he
as
She
.
II
if he
as
fox
is
"
complete happiness
the
is struck
together."
theater
Deburau
wrists, there
her
on
his arm,
her
been
has
' '
charming.
so
still smiles
that
She
Deburau
She
her.
see
single light
has
glitter of
not
of the auditoriiim.
grave
deep eyes.
neck, in her
will
he
exactly
not
"
29
and
of
guessing
life unless
thing, tmless
Fate
since
ever
we
has
uncovered
of
they
But
I
bom
was
love
To
how
why,
1920-1921
OF
I know
that
now
PLAYS
BEST
THE
30
till
morning
from
Yes,
dear.
my
you,
evening
and
in
love
to
eve
mom
fall
To
And
I
think
to
In
been
hard
so
I've
with
tell
could
one
no
time
the
of
Think
that
have
shouldn't
deeper
and
deeper
you
that!
me
convince.
to
cautiously wasted
so
follies!
who?
this
Half
my
near!
lasted
has
life.
twenty
Prom
were
you
And
thee!
was
When
for
Caring
For
love
When
what?
for
Looking
women.
running
been
I've
years
away
afraid
was
Marie
Of
your
wife?
Deburau
But
of them!
bit; nor
I think, of being unhappy.
I
Never
to
single risk.
run
a
riskier
than
that!
Nothing
Not
Still
I've
Call
it
Which
It's
meant
suppose
must
one
love;
solid
like
moves
domestic
the
the
Out
without
was
Though
some
day
never
because
one,
there
over
who
one
wasn't
it
was
affection
clock's
by day.
like a mackintosh
And
That
loved.
been
steady
That
Day
just,
he
cloud
bound
hands
round
the
arm.
your
went
could
in
to
prove
any
rain.
direction
disk
"DEBURAU"
there
Or,
.
By
fireside,safe from
hanii.
to
life,deaf to life,dumb;
Blind
Waiting
There's
and
Food
fiuniture.
to
And
when
sun
And
the
the
rain's
I meet
Here
earth,
in
lift
Loving
has
Now,
I'll
Now
I
Things
street.
me!
sun.
looks.
below.
I know
to
love
her
now.)
you?
to
me.
little closer
going
I'm
perhaps
how
sittingby
is
to
come
you
warn
the
sweet.
my
close
come
in
gone,
shall
or
close
come
the
rain
{He
May
in
books
barrow
excite
there, but
me
you,
me,
I go;
above
where
heaven
If you
and
coster's
the
Nothing
Or
delight
begun,
wonderful
If that's
wine
sit
It's wonderful
doesn't
appear
alive, they
so
on
that
now
things
Beautiful.
How
know,
happier.
any
nothing
They're
don't
grow
commonest
And
come.
on?
goes
can't
to
age
happen
to
If this
old
for
What's
The
I sat,
my
For
31
to
say
I hadn't
that
still.
ought
to!
Marie
Then,
perhaps,
you
had
better
keep
further
away.
Deburau
Oh,
not
that
taught
sort
to
of
things, the
things you've
been
And
Expect.
Silly riddles
You're
Well,
stay
For
I'm
the
about
if I
may
only
Sit
and
look
and
That's
enough.
Things
that
.
the
you.
stuff
very
should
look
through and
them
through,
quickly they
So
beside
sit
fast,
present
look,
are
one
.
you
mystery;
the
hold
while
life
to
pose
still.
so,
Or
Of
to
past.
you're
woman,
me,
going
not
1920-1921
OP
PLAYS
BEST
THE
32
pass.
Marie
the
know
D'you
time?
Deburau
it must
I think
Did
the
It is not
to
strike
clock
it struck
If not
who
one
don't
she
tells
Deburau
has
fate
sees
and
no
name
give
you
it is
aU
enough
sort
his
of
true
"I've
But
shouldered
my
tells
her
that
he
her;
meet
"There
."
hand.
he
is
her.
thing
"My
one
that?"
Deburau
name
of
it," he
ask
rich
her
things
occasionally
the
should
love.
of
and
"What's
for
madame;
sorts
of
he
me."
for
own
...
lines
his future.
asked
But
of his
"selling
windows,"
I'm
the
favors
come
Madame
"
lady,
the
maid,
the
visitor
and
shop
by the
reason
why
know
to
"Still," Marie
never
you've
name!"
wits
in
fortunes
of
ancient
about
goes
find
desire
no
her
by
She
you
interrupts, but
somewhat
lives
friends.
that
arrival
the
that?
wrong.
clock
the
annoimce
Rabouin.
kissing time.
be
has
name
"DEBURAU"
33
Marie
Tell
tell
me,
Oh, what
me.
fun!
Deburau
A
is
name
Conjures
The
Of
in
up
if it tells,
name
its very
sound
picture, complete
very
its
trae
owner.
For
My
lady
to
name
with
What
do
think
of
the
in
its
frame
think
you
found
by?
you
Camellia.
Marie
Why?
Deburau
Because
As
first I
With
the
And
that
shall
saw
always
see
you
stand
you
flickering light
about
flower
hand.
in
your
you
Marie
Yes, it
I
flower,
is my
have
always
near
one
me.
Deburau
From
that
Well,
now,
time
that
what's
was
name
your
other
the
for
me.
everybody's
name
you?
Marie
Marie
Duplessis.
Deburau
Mine's
the
Marie
I
agree
So
For
please give
my
very
it to
own.
me
better
of
the
two.
for
THE
34
PLAYS
BEST
1920-1921
OF
Deburau
Will
fond
Very
it
keep
you
I've
for
safely,
grown
it?
of
Marie
For
such
I've
wanted
One
that
One
that
couldn't
be
to
amen
ever
You
say
The
Lady
What
make
tagged
and
own.
really my
copied,
or
vulgar or stupid,
rhyme.
a
was
stolen
be
couldn't
men
forever
now,
that
name
couldn't
That
So
long time
since
amen
with
are
you're down
Camellia,
the
waiting
you
down
on
that
there
knee
your
shall
be
me!
for?
Deburau
This.
The
end
of
baptism's marked
leans
(Marie
with
toward
kiss.
him
to
be
kissed.)
Deburau
Oh,
dear, oh,
my
What
Child
that
you
are!
you
out
of
To
let
I must
I
thing
new
look
haven't
in
been
at
dear!
my
life is since
my
Child
that
sight for
home, though
my
there
for
week
you
hear
of
or
it.
Deburau
What
do
I care?
Maris
So
will the
rest
of the
world
am,
minute.
Marie
You'll
entered
more.
can't
in
it.
bear
"DEBURAU"
35
Deburau
She
But
He
I must
go
misses
back
and
the
see
dare!
won't
boy.
so.
me
Marie
else
Someone
adore!
you
Deburau
So
would
his
I carry
Who
you.
could
help it,
her
{He shows
pocketbook.)
picture now.
little
rascal?
the
picture
in
his
Marie
like you.
Very
Deburau
Is
Listen
think?
he, d'you
now.
Suppose,
what's
No,
day
one
the
use?
Marie
Go
tell
if you
I'll "suppose"
on.
how.
me
Deburau
Well, since
The
same?
you
And
can't
answer
besides
.
And
Will
marry
you
not
who
knows!
all
besides
ask
why
just
to
ask
you.
me?
Marie
Marry
you
Deburau
Don't
On
And
the
spur
peep
of the
over.
moment.
We
can't
Let's
jump
stand
in.
refuse
on
the
brink
if I asked
But
For
If
and
ever
1920-1921
OF
mine,
be
to
you
for
ever
day,
...
road
our
straight instead
say?
were
would
What
PLAYS
BEST
THE
36
you
of
askew.
Marie
I suppose
Well,
DEBUItAU
Now,
ask
nod
So
.
Then
you'll
remember
have
said
I'll not
have
(She
With
this
Rabouin
will
be
to
that
Deburau,
"the
bird
It is
he
much.
look
that
her
of ill omen."
sends
and
it leads
to
his
he
confession
that
from
she
at
the
theater
was
alone
.
All
alone
Ah,
As
no,
a
and
it didn't
little
start
whim.
Madame
You
lonely.
did
love
him.
Rabouin
it
the
for
temper.
the
longer
no
Marie
night
tells
lover's
her
But
old
"the
for Deburau.
One
finding
ahead
into
rushes
for
Madame
palm
him
offers
of
trouble
palmistry,
at
is
And
be
dwell.
may
look
willing to
hopes
Marie
There
of
none
is
It may
high
one
"No."
say
head.)
future.
and
Just
you
Deburau
his
prophecy
have
her
the
confirm
so.
Rabouin
He'll
nods
into
fairyland wherein
is not
heard
encouragement
little farther
just a
I can't.
head.
not
And
"Yes."
"No."
you
your
begin
you
hag,"
room.
ness,
rudecares
"DEBURAU"
37
Marie
Oh, for
Me
like
up
I
That
After
flame.
I felt sure,
should
never
little it burnt
change.
quite
Then
sure
I seemed
to
recover
little.
Madame
Rabouin
it's gone?
So
Marie
Quite
Madame
Then
d'you
Have
him
think
here
Rabouin
that
quite
gone.
need
you
much?
so
the
completing
For
cure
It is rather
To
have
freak
him
calls
pay
on
week.
lasting a
you
Marie
I know!
know,
I knew
he's
But
And
I
what
If
else
happy;
it's wrong,
it's foolish.
I know
Loving
And
him
to
future
yet,
it
as
seems
is maintained.
of the
herself
he
future.
makes
might
mean
call
a
on
away.
me.
so
much.
Rabouin
Deburau
has
no
She
a
money;
how
confession.
is her
innocent
And,
to wonder
him
see,
you
to
about.
him
send
so
will have.
likelynever
say!
thinking I love
to
little to
Madame
think
to
in
to
But,
mattered
has
And
heart
the
what
happy
so
I haven't
know
to
only
do, or
very
has
told
nice
young
ing
think-
was
Rabouin
man
young
man
"
THE
BEST
bell
rings.
38
The
be,
to
send
to
him
He
is
too, has
of
lady
with
the
as
the
at
is such
It
pulsing
the
the
her;
again
in.
and
he,
as
it is the
of
utterly
And
her.
whelms
over-
love
fade
future,
embraces
him
beautiful
adoration
past, the
present
youth,
feet of the
peek
asks
she
handsome
curiosity
have
least
Then
pretends
or
her
but
at
susceptible Marie;
the
lifetime
as
camellia.
the
must
his love
lay
to
come
She
well
as
mind,
away,
curtains.
the
ardent,
an
of
man
of her.
through
is
young
1920-1921
OF
Marie
the
PLAYS
as
she
impassioned
around.
Deburau
Please
don't
As
you
didn't
But
move.
just going.
was
see.
interrupt.
ridiculous
thing
to
mean
such
has
just happened
me.
That
old
Rabouin
woman,
Me
danger
ahead
To
listen.
Will
...
Ridiculous
When
Since
yesterday
Gone
.
Well, thank
The
place
would
to
these
it won't
take
wife
my
be
have
to
...
home
got
ought
listen
you
things
who
had
been
stopped
minute?
gone
evening, if you
please.
bolted, that's what
she'd
yes,
God,
wasn't
she'd
left
the
me
since
empty
he
showing
done.
boy;
was
in
it
.
She'd
And
Well,
Here
left
me
Fifi, too,
the
think
canary,
but
of course
I
was
my
dream
of
that!
shouted
coming
for
true.
joy.
to
"DEBURAU"
Here
the
had
What
And
With
found
But
.!
.
was
Had
what
do
this
I find
little
history
kind,
loved
she
me.
do
her
want
not
at
Fifi
said
All's
as
well
And
now,
away
bird.
my
I loved
her
so.
as
tell
my
will
say
you
needs
me.
if she
disturbing
you.
that
regret;
What
I know
Don't
is it leads
him
I'm
going
home?
move.
Man
Young
is this?
need
her, she
be.
can
there
word.
angry
an
please,
be
and
know.
forget,
nothing,
think
happiness.
to
never
Forgive
strange
went
less because
There's
I shall
of
and
once
and
no
to
hedge
less
no
boy
my
I could
To
story
away.
I turned
That
the
up
turn
With
Who
the
should
else
beautiful, and
I found
her,
could
Than
And
of
sprung
Oh,
Well,
her
So
so
Aroimd
dear
my
Fifi.
part
repeat
you
that would
be
when
But,
and
Will
her?
She
bird
my
her
to
...
teU.
to
When
dear
ridiculous
the
clear.
at!
my
and
boy
comes
I have
To
oflf to
ran
my
Now
Fairyland
to
way
Fate
been
was
39
me
Marie
It's
Young
Oh, do
introduce
me.
I've
Gaspard
Deburau.
Man
always
admired
him
so.
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Marie
Allow
me.
Debueau
if you
Well,
please!
Oh,
shall
say
Marie
Thus
story
lover
the
curtain
as
Camille
of
the
is
seven
briefly into
comes
the
falls.
Act
It
Duval.
Armand
Monsieur
Deburau
Jean Gaspard
III
later.
years
The
is
scene
Duburau's
acted
of
much
thinking
inspiring rings
much.
as
Why
set
of
and
work
should
up
Charles
is
success?"
forget
not
and
He
takes
he
once
tells
faces
to
"
no
found
Charles
amuse
as
you
waited
He
"Pull
.
soon
as
damn'der
"What's
svue.
that
ears.
he
.
duller
by
his
has
come.
applause
in
hollow
loons, who
filled
would
the
he
years
seven
Marie
day
some
in his
heart
For
late.
your
buffoons!"
worth
place is
Still,
having
but
demands.
he
Deburau
My
In
boy, prick
You'll
And
blood.
your
You
mix
can
vein
in your
Love's
worth
love
parched,
glorious your
go
with
no
wine
your
matter
of
and
arm
write
having.
drink
how
success
of
this down
Unless
life
heady
and
of
fame
is.
"DEBURAU"
When
love
your
Seize
her
It hurts
Cruel,
It's
and
hurt
worse
it out
play
must
you
to
lost
moments;
Unstriven;
the
swinish
Wallowing
Of
But,
at
Have
It
Oh,
finish.
sadly
strife
the
the
I
yes,
the
is
game
sty
exaggerate.
rate,
any
try
is not
in
lethargy
failure.
to
sit and
the
Count
ready,
hold
love
to
be
comes
41
to
live.
Have
life that
try!
interesting Charles
just now,
it is the stage.
however;
Despite his father's opposition
to his following the
calling of his ancestors
young
in
Deburau
has secretly been
touch
with
the
keeping
theater.
Now
boldly he tells his father that he wants
the suggestion.
Deburau
to be an
actor.
resents
even
"Do
learn
mands
he deto act?"
really think one
can
you
of
his
is
"Well,"
son.
Charles, "one
"Oh, there's
answers
Deburau
try!" To which
agrees.
There's
nothing to stop you trying.
nothing to stop a
idea
But
Charles'
pig from
flying if it has wings."
the stage is
that he will ever
amount
to anything on
bom
of vanity than
sense.
more
can
Deburau
listen to
Now,
You're
You
For
Try
As
not
think
quite
you
remember
can
at
such
fool
this
you're trying
as
Well, take
act.
no
game
You
something easy.
long as you've words
can
my
advice
twice
fails
one
learn
help
to
me.
you
to
to
"
"
spout
out
.
Charles
No.
I think
I'll do
better, like
you,
in
ditmb
show.
be.
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Deburau
As
Pierrot?
Charles
Why
I
not,
light
as
try, I
can
feet
my
but
can
know?
to
dance,
can
on
like
I'd
not,
ever
move,
can
I'm
I
why
as
fly,
try.
Deburau
well, try.
Very
Make
yourself, if you
But
don't
go
you
please.
dragging
Of
name!
My
"Why, what
But
another
That
I've
And
Idea;
But
That
I'm
down,
Deburau,
appropriate it.
genuine.
ingenious.
shoes.
I
don't
choose
And
don't
should.
The
out,
you're
on
wealth
try it.
you
world
the
shan't
of
and
done
the
brink
for,
buy
think.
you
success.
None
While
You
to
in fact, most
My
Of
know,
bad
you
name!
While
to
dust.
lad,
my
slip into my
it happens
To
second
like
up,
want
yourself,
If you're such
a
should
the
same
For
Not
in
name
my
must
piece by piece,
suffered to create
it
you
the
that,
self,
and
now
Do
is
built
Sweated
lad, if you
yourself, my
of
fool
the
I've
don't
less.
a
breath
play
my
in
my
parts
body,
in
my
swear
name,
so
there!
it.
"DEBURAU"
In
which
await
his chance.
his father
elder
of
"
Debtirau
They
are
because
and
That
that
he
can
say
still in
the
calls.
He's
RobiUard
he
has
found
concludes, he
Charles
case,
43
he will
is
day
one
will
be
nothing the
his opinion.
in any
alters
way
midst
of their discussion
little
recently
the
seen
to
actor, like
an
and
determined,
have
when
excited, is Robillard
former
Deburau
Mrs.
"
her
"
let's her
pang,
husband
hang!"
go
Deburau
forgotten, has
Have
something
more
I'm iU; but not
so
very
to
I wouldn't
out
She
mind
If I
could
Not
for
being
only stop
her, but
Shall
forget.
try?
ill.
and
about
looking
myself
know
you
"
Well,
she?
has
for
"
about
her.
Robillard
Come
Just
the
to
for
theater:
word
with
not
play,
to
all.
us
Deburau
That's
I should
miss
her
if she
the
way
came.
Robillard
What
Here
You
in
die
Never
Put
this
nonsense
a
on
this
of
wretched
old
step
your
age.
to
hat
you
now
You'll
is!
all the
will she
and
and
until
garret
And
stay
same
stir.
come
with
me.
fret
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BEST
THE
44
Deburau
Not
not
now,
And
I've
She'd
been
always
As
Deburau
and
in
has
is
in her
drinking
seven
is
still
to.
day.
very
of
has
room
changed
some
beautiful.
She
she
has
heard
that
confesses, because
It is not, to him, a comforting thought.
she
come,
ill.
DUBURAU
It
Never
thought
of
took
that
when
me
bring
to
was
you.
well.
Marie
Yes,
I have
thought
of
you
often.
very
Deburau
Loving
me
still?
come
one
day.
Marie
Still
As
A
loving
much
dozen
And
you
as
not
ever.
times
then
I've
been
meant
to
started
able.
Deburau
Curse
them
!
Marie
Who?
Deburau
How
Marie
Why
curse
them
can
tell?
Soon
the
out
She
beauty.
she
but
years,
that
Robillard
and
Charles
came
quarter
call
does
Marie
it happens
if she
at
no,
nearly three.
that
sure
three
at
come
it's
Look,
now.
has
he
is
"DEBURAU"
45
Deburau
Because
A
times
dozen
Then
started
you
Isn't that
they've
to
since
made
miserable.
you
to
come
parted
we
me.
so?
Deburau
At
Now
can
we
Together,
last,
love's
sing
understand!
last, you
at
litany
in hand.
hand
Marie
I can't
explain why
It's that
I love
him
so.
he's
.
Deburau
Oh,
Who
should
know
I know,
if I don't
I know.
know!
THE
46
he's
It's that
He
true
Armand
the
other
day
she
would
not
They
elder
give
she
She
has
come
to
ask
son.
But
she'll not
do
must
hurrying
if he
Duburau
him
brought
will
he
and
work
He
cure.
promised
would.
he
Deburau
his
Do
medicines
The
heartache
The
thoughts
memory?
Yoiu:
touch
seizes
that
that
you.
rend
Marie
Ah,
In
this
world
friend.
my
mustn't
one
expect
too
much.
Deburau
And
I've
waited
for
this !
Marie
For
what?
Deburau
For
A
you
to
when
.
doctor
when
.
And
come
doctor
you
Wonderful
expect
cure,
bringing
you
you
are
are
do
you
Just
if
her
it.
not?
your
here!
gone!
"
not
but
see
is waiting
Marie
He'll
her
be
below.
street
take
so!
him
loves
she
to
had
She
asks
trying
are
Duval
his
up
time.
goes
doctor.
the
true.
her, and
the
the
notices
she
you.
if that's
not
from
away
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of
too, is unhappy.
Marie,
She
OF
part of you,
heart
is the
Nothing's
PLAYS
BEST
doctor!
fore
beher
in
"DEBURAU"
47
dear,
My
In
That
In
there's
word
the
case
my
look
clear
is
salvation
more
from
from
thing
one
you,
you.
Alone,
Than
With
doctor
every
But
the
of his
none
in
consultation
in
doctor
does
something
friends
could
do
theater.
the
Deburau
Reawakens
it wise
Deburau
himself
for
knowing
thought
advises
interest
; he
Without
talking (Marie
doctor
Paris.
that
he
in something.
interest
whom
to
not
his
that
tell him)
to
get
must
visit to
out,
the
is
he
the
must
theater,
for
be
instance, would
just the thing. Not
any
the play's
theater, or any actor.
"Although, of course,
factor
I usually prescribe some
a
particular actor."
"
Deburau
What
of actor?
sort
Doctor
Not
of
one
the
That
the
sort
calls
manager
Conscientiously
painting
By
there
But
one
two
or
While
With
science, which
Is like
There
candle
comes
the
in
beat
last
the
without
this
humbly
us.
light,
with
actor
resort
his
art
afflatus."
d'ye call it "divine
A bit of a blackguard he may
be,
Ignorant, idle, devil-may-care.
Poverty-stricken. But since somewhere
His
"
There
what
Ixirks in
"
him
rank.
part.
striving
are
we
his
should
we
they
physicians, though
We
living
speaking
and
face
from
cab
his
earning
lus
are
like
that
touch
of
the
divine
thank.
THE
48
Which
he
But
BEST
spends,
own
However
worthless
Can
way,
you
he
his
you
see,
he.
be.
blood,
to
seem
may
spills wine
drunkard
so
"
offers
he
do
generosity
Nature's
1920-1921
OF
spillsas
Nature's
that's
Because
PLAYS
heart's
good.
you
Deburau
And
can
Such
tell
you
of
me
such
actor,
an
man?
Doctor
Indeed
There's
Just
one
such
I don't
know
public benefactor.
hesitate
Gaspard
But
can.
call
to
him
so.
Deburau.
how
few
very
have
done
him
justice:
Deburau
Really!
In
this
world
that's
how
it
always
Doctor
A
artist, too,
great
See
him
and
tell
if that's
me
Deburau
I'll go
tonight.
Doctor
That's
He's
Wait
right.
the
doctor
till you
for
begin
you.
to
laugh.
Deburau
I'm
smiling already,
you
see.
not
true.
is.
"
"DEBURAU"
49
Doctor
Good.
In
There's
half
anticipation!
the
battle
won.
Deburau
for your
Thanks
visit.
Doctor
You'll
Deburau
make
If you
cure
well
have
repaid
it
you.
Deburau
And
do
the
divide
you
fee?
Doctor
Ah,
professional etiquette
no,
that
Forbids
But,
A
to
doctor's
reputation
by
Science
needs
Let
shall
help that
quite contentedly
she
if I take
the
all
work
him
collaboration.
such
Is made
So
sir, half
dear
my
done.
be
the
the
cure
can
get,
credit.
(Charles
conies
back.)
Deburau
Show
the
doctor
out.
(Charles
passage
takes
returns.)
then
and
Doctor
the
Deburau
He's
That's
What
right.
the
way.
have
you
been
about?
Charles
I've been
to
the
theater.
saw
into
the
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50
Deburau
Well?
Charles
"Pierrot
the
on
See-Saw."
Deburau
What
playing tonight?
they
are
Charles
Clo'."
"Old
They're reviving
Deburau
plays
Who
my
part?
Charles
Legrand.
Deburau
did
Who
say?
you
Charles
Legrand.
Deburau
Does
he
Give
me
Don't
Run
indeed!
my
stand
and
on
That's
hat, give
and
me
of
sort
poor
joke.
cloak,
my
stare!
tell
them
I'll be
there
And
I
ready to start.
fear
Legrand's prospects
play tonight!
The
scene
Theater,
but
is
again
the
real
are
hardly bright.
Act
IV
the
stage
audience
of
the
in
place
Funambules
of
looking
"DEBURAU"
heads
the
over
is
stage
Clo'"
presvmied
is
is
no
be
to
and
makes
but
hiss
minutes
at
The
performance
mimic
audience
have
to
seems
He
lost his
efforts
strenuous
hesitates
another.
The
of him
and
weary
that
there
swells
in
to
and
audience
presently
to
few
very
tells his
So\he
is
ill,that
time.
last
utter
tears
does
word.
single
tempt
at-
there
few
is dead
falling. He
slowly, sadly kissing his hand.
Deburau's
Deburau
asks
time
falls.
cannot
by
can't
He
this
By
by.
he
audience
he
of
silence
but
speak,
to
he
and
audience
the
to
noise
mimic
right. "There
fidgety. Deburau
success.
after
From
horrible
he
the
the
is
making
any
begins
is heard.
is
He
mistake
palpably
very
toward
wings
audience
actor,
same
without
one
the
progress.
the
power.
amusing
be
audience
sittingoff-stage to
the
longer
in
now
full house,
charm
mimic
looking through
of "Old
is
of the
SI
makes
are
in the
silence
his last
Suddenly
the
house.
gesture,
curtain
falls."
Now
has
Deburau
gone
swarming over
their sympathy
actors
to
their
of
wonder
is
manager,
for
what's
particularly
dressing
deserted
the
are
mixing
his
and
room
stage excitedly
the
actor
unhappy
Bertrand,
happen.
to
the
with
disturbed.
Bertrand
But
.
We've
And,
What's
Why
what
'11 it cost
open
again
to
ask
to
the
you,
be
how
played,
devil
didn't
in
can
and
hour
an
we?
who's
I have
catastrophe?
this
me,
so.
or
What
to
him
can
play
turned
it?
we
do?
the
52
Out
of
He
has
BEST
the
theater!
his
had
Breaks
It's
THE
the
The
I'm
of my
1920-1921
to
sorry
But
this
old
poor
it.
say
last
trophy
show.
blow!
barker
and
name,
OF
tritimphs.
back
death
PLAYS
in
brings
sighs
he
as
the
poster
pins
it up,
bearing Deburau's
its
to
preparatory
being changed.
Bertrand
Well,
did
what
make
they
of it?
The
Barker
Who?
Bertrand
Who,
Heaven,
The
who
d'you
audience.
think
What
I mean,
had
The
Nothing!
Without
They
a
with
to
say?
Barker
just walked
word,
booby?
you
they
out
nothing
to
and
away
say.
Sorry.
Bertrand
Sorry?
The
Yes,
And
enough
For
they
Nor,
you
Anyone
So
out
won't
may
and
make
to
sad,
'em
him
see
Barker
sad
and
sorry.
again,
add.
like
him
they
were
in
hurry.
walking into
a
the
rain
by
"DEBURAU"
S3
Bbrtrand
raining?
Is it
The
Some
.
of
their
Barker
faces
wet
were
Just
Deburau
as
Often
in
good-by
had
he's made
dumb
'em
laugh
show,
them
taught
.
their
Saying
to.
Bertrand
Once
Well,
This
the
is
But
show
another
actor.
night?
The
I'm
suppose
often
made
must
for?
made
cry.
Bertrand
on.
go
it be
ask
actors
'em
often!
forget.
Wouldn't
were
twenty
are
Barker
won't
day they
the
theatres
too
once
The
too
it.
"
stalls
booked
going
to
better
and
close
for
you
think
do
"What
demands
to
Bertrand.
paid
find
must
for!
"There
And
you
close!"
ROBILLARD
Then
Than
the
change
play.
that, in decency.
You
do
can't
less
Bertrand
I
won't, that's
Legrand
flat.
on.
goes
{As
Bertrand
poster Deburau
Legrand
D'you
want
to
play tonight ?
goes
to
take
enters.)
down
the
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PLAYS
BEST
THE
54
Deburau
again.
Never
Don't
afraid.
be
Bertrand
Well,
have
HoNORiNE
plain.
and
Laplace
Justine,
(Charles,
that's
must,
someone
on.)
come
Deburau
Well,
Let
shall.
someone
be.
name
my
Bertrand
This
is nonsensical.
Deburau
me
.
At
least
In
my
own
Wait,
and
let
me
put
it right
way.
you'll
see.
Bertrand
You
play
can't
and
not
play.
Deburau
Are
you
There
And
sure?
{He
it
If I
does
gives
you
just
so.)
add
That's
Monsieur
C,
enough
Charles
capital
to
efface
Deburau
me.
Charles
Father.
Bertrand
Your
boy
Deburau
If you
C?
please.
to
me
replace
"DEBURAU"
55
Bertrand
But
.
Deburau
Don't
wony.
What
he's
The
contract
Or
worth.
Eight francs
Bargain that
that
week;
the
wasn't
made,
ever
you
him
give
can
you
Bertrand
Charles, Monsieur
At eight francs a week.
till
wait
can
one
sees
first.
my
worst
it?
friend, was
my
engages
you
Bertrand
he's
But
child!
Deburau
Think
I
how
just
was
leading part
his
ages
when
age
you.
took
you
on.
me
Bertrand
But
supered.
you
Deburau
I did.
So
told
And
you
And
How
you
have.
never
wept
and
How
how
But
Have
And,
that
to
think
I drove
ought
of
had
the
not
him
the
of, have
father
for
he's
speak
wild.
you
lose
to
credit.
theater's
we
it.
.!
alone
.
never
to
chided.
you
experience; he
if I were
thinking
there's
tonight and
how
learn
never
great
And
I'd
me
not?
heredity;
got.
with
the
broad
brim
We
and
the
same
to
agrees
Deburau
sent
for,
tattered
dress
that
father
the
makes
the
wore
face
the
up
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THE
56
As
success.
he
hun.
counsels
Deburau
Now,
pay
this
Get
Acting's
firmly iixed
Tell
If
.
Are
peas,
tell
and
now
me
head.
shelling
as
easy
as
please.
if you
in your
attention
truly
me
Oh,
nervous
you
of course,
Say
that
about
I know
But
are.
you
tonight?
that
you'll duly
in
you
are
fright?
real
Charles
I.
.
Deburau
Truly
I said.
now,
Charles
I
Yes,
terrified
I'm
am.
Deburau
that's
But
otu-
affair
own
doesn't
audience
The
terrified.
be, he's
should
he
As
"
want
share.
Charles)
{To
in
Shake
Feel
Your
In
you've
sure
that
part;
what
That
in
shoes
your
Turn
redden
won't
rouge
room;
forgotten
you're rotten
remember.
you
dressing
your
pale
so
certain
Be
you.
you'll
fail.
Walk
forth
But,
once
Once
the
Let
your
Once
If
you
as
on
bell
criminal
the
scene
starts
to
walks
must
over
think
ring and
with
away
brink
the
of
doom
"
"
fright fly
you're
his
to
yourself
the
curtain
it up
at
to
the
all, think
to
rise,
flies.
"DEBURAU"
the
You're
greatest
remember
Now,
be
simple;
But
never
be
Try
be
to
What
it must
For
to
seem
when
Yet,
when
Now,
as
it, must
do
to
of
to
it and
Whatever
feel
must
sure
"What
into
comes
or
your
you're frightened,
in a whirl.
hard, think
Think, think
do
you.
girl"
pretty
head
do.
to
or
pleased,
that
your
intensely
in a fright.
in love, or
That
are
you
can't
longer.
Then, when
keep still any
you
When
feeling grows
stronger
your
Than
still hold
yourself tensely
are,
you
And
steep yourself in it
For the millionth
part of a minute.
Then
let yourself go.
And
it'll come
right.
...
Don't
copy
me,
Don't
copy
anyone.
But
professor
acting can
"
There
Or
two
let
may
me
done.
love,
That
Of
do.
you,
accidentally
seem
always
naturally to
convey
of
to
do
If it's madness
be
course
you're going
show,
most
comes
want
it, it
dumb
our
what
clear
always
must
you
Whatever
If you
Think
do
you
quite
seem
audience
an
clever.
too
"
clear.
quite
And
Play light,
sincere,
be
mean,
you
seen!
ever
never
or
"
world's
trite.
oh
never,
the
actor
this.
And
And
57
only
see
be
tricks.
teach
you
his
faults,
"
one
To
become
the
possessor
head's
it's
these
Of
You
are
Among
to
theater
it's
I tell you,
That
In
the
Of
all
So
when
things?
art,
an
heart
womankind.
Them
to
Would
breathless,
house
whole
tears
sell
that
Row
Silence.
silent
Of
the
lady
Or
the
Of
the
for
power
it
upon
king's
now.
row,
could
you
bedizen
you'd swear
earrings that
So
mold
after,
moment
hold
risen.
has
curtain
to
to
mind.
never
laughter!
to
or
Picture
Ransom?
tritmiphs
of
triumph
sUght it,
wiseacres
world's
the
the
That
place
no
springs
its
has
face
your
has
important
And
galling
curled
told
the
That
For
little
lip politely
supercilious smirk,
And
The
world.
the
with
When,
in
finest
it sometimes
Is
somersaults!
calling
actor's
the
Is the
turning
as
Remember
simple
as
1920-1921
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PLAYS
BEST
THE
S"
hear
the
shakings
there.
manager
as
he
absconds
with
evening's takings.
All of a sudden
fling
you
Across
the
footlights to them
Some
trivial thing
That
takes
their fancy.
Then
it begins.
A whisper they sway
to, a rhythm.
First it's only a smile
can
see.
you
Like
ripple that has just
a
raised by that
Been
tiny gust
your
share
"DEBURAU"
Of
But
laughter.
Till a gale of
Let
them
On
the
call you
the great world
does
It
the
You
just
Of
that
neglect and
and
pay
than
more
little you
draw
a
glory that passes
so
is better
If
you've tasted
Starved, till you
that
Who
you.
cares
that's
away,
too
need
great
rarity!
feel
never
final
your
pay
breath
quickly
life you
to
your
the
and
come
meal
death.
(He
Ladies
and
Latest
recruit
Please
to
gentlemen,
give
My
Welcome.
He
is to
And
my
Here
"A
to
be
last,
greater
For
and
performance
certain.
that's
prophetic,
succeeds
ready to
ring up the
lesser."
"We're
to
'em
this
amongst
him."
Charles.
curtain.
rehearsal
Bertrand
agrees
in
have
commence.
little the
then
for
beat
it," he
the
is the
a
big
very
crowd
The
of
actors
The
successor,
thanks.
finish; he's
Prompter,
himself.)
sympathetic
best
the audience
to
ranks.
sincerest
my
I stand
like
my
your
him
Charles
turns
now
dressed
forget
for
Popularity.
Only one
thing
With
clown.
benefactors.
get your
If
keep growing
same
To
will
down
you,
Let
laughter
blowing.
it is
look
59
young
continues
give
to
sighs
dnmi
latest
Charles
women
stage
open
his chance.
to
the
barker;
for
the
youngster.
bit
of
talent
round
of
to
the
"you'll
picked
in the
competitors put
gather
the
on
shade
Tell
from
by
congratulate
company
are
the
calls
reminiscent
of the
last
notices
Deburau
solicitous.
particularly
1920-1921
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PLAYS
BEST
THE
6o
upon
his
this.
It
past.
Deburau
here.
Charles,
come
Are
you
losing
Oh,
don't
I'U
fear
for
minute
back
look
part.
listen
more,
over
to
me.
life,
my
and
failures
Its
in bad
that
take
But,
heart?
your
successes.
strife;
of it, this is
end
Now
at the
learned
I've
The
lesson
by heart.
There
two
unfading things,
are
and
Love
And
I
Art.
not
so
them
see
I've
had
But
if
Love
I
and
impotence
Its
regretfully
today take wings;
my
you've
was
heard
all that
was
say
me
amounted
for
season;
But
it can't
hold
Art
without
love?
No,
you
must
strive
hold
them
each
If
way.
coimted,
art
something
To
wrong.
without
Love
To
in
of both
share
you
What
want
life is
If you
Both
want
happy
Tonight you
If you
Do
you
Do
you
think
Do
you
think
by
without
reason.
hand,
understand
to
innermostly;
to
be
and
alive.
may
make
do, there'll
think
long.
you
That's
rhyme
be
your
many
first success;
follow.
to
more
is
"DEBURAU"
To
have
the
In
when
skin
he
of
gave
the
you
actor?
an
6i
of
heart
Gather
life's
man
joys
while
you
can;
Life's
life's
sorrows,
birthright
It's your
A man's
Give
dangers;
loiow
to
life,nothing
audience
your
them.
less!
whole-heartedly
all that
owe
you
them;
remember
But
that, friends
they
as
they
are,
are
strangers.
And
while
Find
their
applauding
love
to
someone
interruptions
ladies,
and
we
offer
place
new,
world-famed
our
is heard
crowd:
amuse
does
barker;
son
it take
"who
and
the
His
son!
stand
possessor
We
so
you
could
above
and
Pierrot,
to
Deburau."
in the
be
as
present
tonight
take
"
great
success
secrets;
tonight
you
as
who,
with
has
Deburau,
but
son
Charles
lies he's
telling! What
Deburau
Hush!
That's
how
he
earns
Charles
Let
me
stop him.
Deburau
No,
no
the
Inside, the
successor."
Father, what
the
men,
Gentlewings, listening.
long to guess?" queries the
all his
of
you.
"Gentlemen
you;
new
you
love
to
and
father
is to
above
someone
barker
gathering
trade
our
and, oh,
of the
the
something
of
still echoes
his
money.
shame!
one?
and
1920-1921
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62
Charles
could
how
But
ever
half
earn
fame
your
Deburau
Who
knows?
Again
barker:
the
is
stands
the
close.
auditorium
of
the
the
of
the
sounds
The
seats.
The
mimic
the
curtain
The
enter.
place
audience
"
until
Pierrot
on,
the
sadly,
curtain
From
theater
its
shuffling
is
There
Pierrot
stands
in
hopefully,
shuts
him
comes
to
the
swish
about
of
to
prompter's
anxiously,
from
its
heard.
are
is
the
the
way
signals
new
tarries
Slowly
lowered.
warning
The
formance
per-
who
in."
within
quieted.
rises.
old
looking
"
is
he
getting
are
audience
director's
and
not
theater
new
the
Paris
"
lights
mimic
it
of
begin,
of
The
stage
as
to
chance
good
curtains
funny!
so
"Playgoers
about
just
very
is
public
The
view.
pectantly
ex-
"THE
An
FIRST
American
Comedy
By
THE
after
week
of
night
the
of
this
way
Little
the
their
result
been
in
and
"The
comedies
which
observed,
with
the
simple
one,
during
their
first
and
an
as
The
of
room
with
Mrs.
the
of
choice
has
her
of
of
had
are
is just
narrowed
in
should
to
the
111.
Grace,
Grace,
worrying
down
couple
Reading,
daughter,
she
is
begins
in
now
overlaid
young
Anderson.
suitors
keenly
which
It
their
Dr.
brother.
63
life.
little
homely
story,
Livingstons,
small-town
gradually
but
immediate
so
character,
of
married
twenty,
serve,
re-
the
play
situation,
The
Livingstons
girl
which
blend
adventures
Fred
the
in
that
the
true,
comedy
of
for
persons,
if
those
farce.
Livingston's
attractive
to
human
year
fact
house,
of
one
the
out
exorbitant.
450
same
by
success.
perfect
of
relates
Living
suggestion
living
is
are
and
its
was
Year"
First
the
standard-sized
sensational
so
only
and
places
the
by
the
impossible
sold
been
held
for
accommodates
produced
Theater
naturally,
were,
been
Craven.
months,
had
speculators
have
Frank
Little
three
accounted
would
particular
practically
was
theater
the
prices
was
Theater
it
by
the
at
succeeding
the
Only
season.
In
the
Acts
this
of
written
1920,
weeks
two
and
comedy
20,
Three
success
production
for
seats
end
the
its
in
Craven
comedy
fine
October
buy
to
this
was
Drama
Frank
outstanding
season
YEAR"
two
little
marry.
of them
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64
boy, about
good-looking, dark
Loring, "a
twenty-three or twenty-four, strong and athletic," and
"a
adoring
plain, quiet, shy and
Tucker,
Tommy
is a civil engineer with
good prospects
Dick
youth."
for himself.
and
of his ability to make
confident
a name
and
in Reading
business
is in the real-estate
Tommy
the
craves
likely to stay in it the rest of his life. Grace
Dick
"
"
but
had
she
it is the
knows
her
them
Doctor
would
"
do
that's
the
told
be
you
when
mother
married
and
see
Sister, what
warning
any
that
"
is to
own."
without
"
told
you
their
of
Livingston).
if Grace
to
were
great ambition
yotu
home
Mrs.
way
ticularly
par-
mothers
"You
Livingston,
tells Mrs.
yet
in
(to
"
you
Loring
and
do.
to
and
parents,
evening turns
again to the
want
to
marrying;
"you don't
children, and
married
her
Yet
this
family conversation
possibility of Grace's
your
enthusiasm.
with
her
Anderson
the
lose
thing
wish
promises,
Dick
other
to
one
mother,
alike," Dr.
all
are
marry
forward
look
to
life with
down
settling
and
future
rather
not
marrying
that
quite certain,
is not
she
she
of
adventure
and
romance
and
she
Dick
leaving for
were
the
"West?
Mrs.
Livingston
don't
you
Doctor
I asked
it upset
Mrs.
what
"
You
sometime,
your
what
Grace's
Mrs.
you'd
have'
you
isn't
Livingston
mother's
what
me
Grace).
to
telling
do in
case
You
know
such
any
told
she
plan
all, sister.
at
you
Grace,
Would
you.
you?
Doctor
cause
Grace
"
you
tell
to
mean
{crossing
"
you'd
"
what
see
Grace.
consent.
plans
are,
it would.
commotion
I'd
hate
haven't
be
to
sister, I
the
was
it is
the
going
one
to
to
ask
slightest idea
just wondering
say.
Livingston
"
Well, then,
you
shouldn't
say
"THE
those
things to
reallysomething
Grace
Mrs.
Myron.
me,
65
had
Grace
thought
confess.
to
Confess?
"
YEAR"
FIRST
isn't
Marrying
Livingston
isn't
There
"
crime, is it?
in it, is
truth
any
there, Grace?
Grace
uncle's
answer
you'd
question
Livingston
I don't
what
you
first.
I'd
Well,
"
I'll not
"
do,
like
mother,
you
what
know
to
don't
you
answer
think
to
want
even
Grace
do
you
say.
Mrs.
"
tell
"
of
want
such
any
thing
it!
be
to
me
old
an
maid,
you?
Livingston
Mrs,
father
Your
Dick
to !
is the
be
Grace
to
last
Loring
He's
always
wouldn't
been
is able
boy
been
to
wild,
And
you.
I'd want
were!
if you
care
support
see
anyway,
married
you
straying
sort
he
"
choice.
my
Well, I don't
"
wouldn't
"
father
that
know
have
would
mine.
Livingston
Grace
Huh?
"
Well,
"
tin
the
from
not
I've
types
of
seen
dad.
you,
Livingston
Grace
Well,
"
dress
you
the
what's
her
for
you.
(To
might
suit
you,
mother,
I don't
idea.
dad
want
to
than
you
mother)
but
it's
did
Being
never
then,
an
been
supporting
on
go
them?
with
matter
better
that
I'll say
maid
Why,
"
me
old
my
all
life.
my
Livingston
Mrs.
either.
Me
"
Livingston
"
You
to
want
work
for
your
living?
Grace
"
and
I want
and
I want
and
arrange
men
boys!
for
my
Not
one
little bit.
I want
to be
supported,
who
supports me,
help to the man
I
and
to plan futures
want
to have
children,
brave, handsome
marriages for them
for my
girls,and beautiful, good women
to
be
"
Mrs.
Livingston
Doctor
be
modest
Grace,
and
have
danger
is less
There
of them.
plenty
then.
them
spoiling
do
right ahead,
go
have
"
1920-1921
OF
Grace,
"
You
"
children
of
PLAYS
BEST
THE
66
find
will not
Livingston's idea that Grace
with
much
eight or
to
satisfy her longing for romance
is not
old
she
children.
ten
even
Also, at twenty,
Which
her mind
what
she wants.
enough to make
up
It is Mrs.
the
that.
Even
times
many
admits.
doctor
wise
It
after
when
if she
"
there
she
had
they
will
Why
Mrs.
the
her
that
statement
if she
different
truth
her
be
the
from
other
mother
own
will
"
will
made
has
different
from
plish
accom-
there
marries
isn't
Grace
to
years
admit
that
life when
early married
her
ready to leave
husband,
just
quarreled over
some
silly little thing
almost
because
a
in
take
wonder
confess
times
were
was
"
will
Grace
will
she
will
own
flusters
some
insist
men
Livingston
Mrs.
ably.
consider-
Livingston
talking
on
much
so
"
It wotildn't
be
{to Doctor).
bad
if you'd keep
know
to
so
topics you
something
but
when
confirmed
about,
a
bachelor, get on the
you,
of
the
about
subject
marriage, I should
were
say
you
poorest authority in the world!
Doctor
yet
I've
studied
the
"
Not
"
and
all !
at
I've
diagnose it.
can
it
"
treatment
Mrs.
"
It's the
same
I know
the
symptoms
and
the
cure
"
Livingston
had
never
Why
"
"
yellow fever,
with
marriage.
the suffering
don't
you
write
book
on
it?
Doctor
"
love
Grace
a
"
and
It doesn't
book
"
only
two
words
forgive.
Must
"
lot?
Doctor
need
"
Oh,
the
indeed
she
must.
If
she
you
marries
feel
you
"THE
forgive a
can't
whether
Which
she
leads
she
that
town
asks, which
Grace
don't
He
could
ask
have
in
Doctor
To
Doctor
think
about
me
mother
and
father
of that
make
first.
"
if he
method.
did
that
prefer Dick?
you
romantic
more
terribly good
feminine
than
looking, too,
have
to
too.
think
I don't
and
that
ought
be.
band.
good-looking husHe's
so
dependable
isn't good looking.
be jealous
you'd ever
a
be
to
he must
I guess
eyes,
Tommy
course.
I don't
Tommy
what
at
them.
Doctor
when
Of
shouldn't
romantic
hasn't.
comfortable
ing
feel-
woman.
"
That's
you?
Tommy
ask
He's
dear.
Tommy,
No,
"
Tonnmy,
why
that
it's nice
I like
obliging.
Grace
place, she
would
in favor
He's
the
And
But
is
town.
"
"
for
leave
think?
you
over
ask
would
Dick
"
boy
and
to
ever
not, and if Tommy
under
circumstances.
any
him
And
"
Grace
in her
asked
ever
rather
Well, I'm
Doctor
don't
I'm
"
I wouldn't
any
Especially
is about
were
that
choose?
both
would
uncle
beaux.
Loring
he
her
to
two
If he
would
who
"
Grace
see
week, Grace
married,
you
Siberia!
Dick
have
me.
Doctor
Grace
to
her
Tommy
kind
times
believe
is the
67
confession
big job.
Dick
"
want
in
or
heard
They
"
three
about
of them
Doctor
has
his first
on
Grace's
to
is worried
really
now
And
live here
you
YEAR"
least
at
man
marry!
never
"
FIRST
"
^he had
would
makes
flirt,and
him
Of
girl?
other
some
so
Dick
I can't
Uncle, what's
your
Wel4,^I'lltell
it broken
at
you.
course,
is
romantic.
Somehow
all.
If I liked
that.
about
know
make
him,
don't
flirt.
terrible
isn't
Tommy
up
my
mind
opinion?
I set
football, and
Dick's
I
leg
could
once
have
58
THE'BEST
wished
he
hurt
was
him,
world
too
his folks
"
well, I wish
own
son,
Tommy?
my
had
he
the
been
it.
took
into the
Tommy
dearest
friends, and
"
And
too.
son,
my
he
way
brought
of my
two
were
1920-1921
OF
plays
there
you
are.
Grace
Doctor
only
You're
"
(rising).No
"
one
to
way
Grace
Both
heart).
her
for
custom
little
more
Subtly
he
to
town
That
lovers'
the
"
evening,
new
the
ever
get
out
of the
Few
of
its
been
arrives
possibilities
because
of
it offers, and
adventures
places.
has
as
who
Dick,
past.
position and
usual
important than
his
new
will
weeks
some
stresses
see
call that
Dick
and
Tommy
of
that
There's
be, Grace.
out.
(touches
first, is full
chance
could
one
of information.
bureau
and
find
help
What?
"
DocTOii"
their
much
not
it
or
other
fellows
amount
ever
it.
the
in
to
Dick's
opinion.
By the time
anything in it. That's
is terribly interested
in Dick
and
arrives
Grace
Tommy
and
tries a little crudely
his plans.
that
sees
Tommy
for the advantage
lost.
But
he is
he has
to make
up
drawn
into
with
the
older
bridge game
people and
a
forced
Grace
and
Dick
to watch
enjoying their t^te-kt^te
the
Even
when
he
is dummy
he
settee.
on
somehow
in breaking into the conversacan't succeed
tion.
but not a complete
It is an amusing bridge game,
can't
it, for one
success.
on
Tommy
keep his mind
and
walk
Dick
out
thing; especially after Grace
on
the
Dr.
of air.
porch for a breath
Finally, when
Anderson
is called
the
is interrupted.
game
away,
Before
he
to have
however.
a
Tommy
manages
goes,
few
words
with
him
alone.
He
wants
to
know,
for
heard
has
Grace
thing, if the doctor
anything
say
about
doctor
The
he
leaving Reading.
hasn't, but
wouldn't
be surprised if Dicli were
trying to convince
one
"THE
her,
then, that
even
Now
he
admit
that.
than
Tommy
"
Doctor
wanted
"
Tommy
"
"
Tommy
it's too
settled,
won't
Tommy
himself, much
get married
to
have
girlin
mind
time.
some-
that
you
"
You
got
her
in
is she?
who
fun
of me.
Grace?
making
you
I've
I'll ever
as
don't
mean
haven't
been
Doctor?
night
after
never
asked
her.
waiting
for?
She
calling
Livingston.
Well, has Grace
(doubtfully).
"
"
yes
refused
No
here
late
"
you?
I've
"
Well,
what
are
you
if you
don't
ask
her.
{indicatingDick
"
Doctor
near
have!
Mrs.
see
Doctor
say
all
I have.
as
Why,
"
Doctor
can't
"
Are
"
Doctor
Tommy
But
romantic
did, eh?
not
did,
That's
now.
to
and
the
more
"
like
ever
sir.
You
No
"
Doctor
night
I'd
you
reminds
suspect.
"
Yes,
"
Doctor
Tommy
mean
he
marry?
to
Tommy
little
Dick,
are
type
would
Did
"
Tommy
mind
He's
69
should.
Tommy
bachelor
anyone
YEAR"
girls,being romantic
to
and
matter-of-fact,
more
she
is attractive
Tommy,
that.
FIRST
and
Grace).
afraid
I'm
now.
That's
no
to
way
talk
find
try it and
"
out!
Tommy
{suddenly
"
I will!
right. Doctor,
Livingston right away.
Doctor
Tommy
"
Doctor
Tommy
Doctor
"
Lord,
Good
To
"
"
Yes
"
Mr.
to
speak
to
and
All
Mrs.
Grace!
!
I get
Make
If you're romantic
no
mind).
his
Grace?
How'U
"
making
up
I'll speak
one
"
be
chance?
And
romantic.
put
your
Don't
heart
show
into
it.
you're
afraid
mean
Doctor
right
to
her
grab
and
"
when
her
grab
say
you
"
her?
Yes, I do.
"
her
to
up
you.
grab
"
1920-1921
OF
Doctor,
But,
"
don't
go
"
listen
her
Tommy
you
bold
Be
make
and
PLAYS
BEST
THE
70
her
Grab
hold
on
have
Livingstons
and
the
ready to retire.
are
room
straightened up
be a good time
this would
to
Perhaps, decides Tommy,
Grace.
Mr.
about
Livingston's inquiry
speak to them
he is getting along in business
to how
gives him the
as
I'm
idea.
Livingston,"
doing all right, Mr.
"Why,
enthusiasm.
"In
he says, with
fact, I am
doing
some
better
than
I expected
be
to
well, much
doing.
very
is
I
business
that
certain
it
isn't
You
have
a
big,
see,
but it is certain.
I am
glad that you brought up
very
that you
and
the subject, because, now
Mrs.
Livingston
like
I
would
to
matter
here,
speak to you
are
a
on
wanted
about."
to speak to you
(Grace
rises) I have
and
Just then the phone rings. It is Dr. Anderson
he wants
him
of
to talk to Tommy
wants
to remind
which
After
decides
will not
he
something.
Tommy
has
Dick
Now
and
and
gone,
the
"
"
finish
whatever
it
They
than
"grab"
Grace.
him, he walks
around
arms
she
gives him
Grace
are
does
he
no
started
say
of the
out
sooner
decide
to
that
this
is
ingstons.
Liv-
the
to
ever,
how-
room,
time
the
to
toward
Seeing that her back is turned
her and
throws
both
quickly up behind
her.
But, taken by surprise though she is,
push that sends him sprawling.
a
Why,
"
he
was
Tommy
"
what's
the
matter
with
you?
Tommy
Grace
you
up
beg
That
"
Tommy
Grace
"
"
"
about?
I know
pardon
your
isn't
bit
"
like
forgive me.
Tommy.
you.
it isn't !
(laughing). Tommy,
what
did
uncle
call
"THE
Tommy
Grace
But
"
Grace
wanted
Oh
"
Tommy
Is
"
Tommy
do
advice.
some
me
and
not
dad
good, Tommy?
satisfied.
that
is, I'm
what
Dick
said
about
that
"
about
say.
business
your
That's
"
any
mother
to
rather
Yes
"
Grace
71
good.
idea your
an
telephone message
what
with
me.
were
Tommy,
! I had
I'd
"
Grace
give
to
it wasn't
something to
going to speak
you
YEAR"
Oh!
"
Tommy
had
He
"
FIRST
about
tonight
you
you're satisfied.
"
Tommy
from
He's
"
I'm
"
long
way
satisfied.
being
Grace
wrong
He
"
with
meant
and
business
your
your
surroundings.
Tommy
Grace
Don't
"
you'd like
with
Oh!
"
to
new
Tommy
feel, though,
ever
you
get away
branch
"
people in
new
scenBs?
No.
Why,
would
"
and
out
like
you
Tommy,
that
try your
luck
to
away,
go
Grace?
Grace
Indeed
"
parties with
everything!
Tommy
up
home
of
happy
Grace
own
a,
"
"
that
home
that would
tired of the
talk
same
"
I hate
how
your
same
it!
never
take
to
difference, I guess.
own
"
mean
"
and
keep
you
busy
with
me.
Tommy.
people
it
"
"
"
listen
Yes.
Oh,
to
It's
no.
the
surf
"
nerves
some
puts
could
sleep.
to
mad
same
"
work
haven't
you
makes
of
so
am
Here?
"
Tommy
Grace
had
our
girl
and
"
if you
Imow
don't
You're
people
same
You
time
Maybe
can't
the
"
your
I would
to
been
"
get
'the'
72
Tommy
the
that's
suppose
Grace
places
same
Tommy
{looks
"
Dick
want
alike.
are
you'd
chap
think
him
wanted
you
Grace
and
Grace.
marry,
travel
to
the
to
time, though.
same
should
"
1920-1921
wouldn't
we
the
at
of
sort
Maybe
"
You
Dick!
Like
"
OF
PLAYS
BEST
do
thing
any-
like
you,
would
man
any
to.
All
him).
at
men
not
are
Tommy.
Tommy
buses,
De
no
Grace
Sotos
Colum-
no
Pearys
or
what
wonder
be
of
sort
girl
Tommy.
you'll marry.
know
I don't
"
Grace
there'd
they were,
Stanley
or
{rising).
"
Tommy
if
No,
"
Did
"now"?
Why
"
now!
"
refuse
someone
you.
Tommy?
Tommy
Practically.
"
Grace
is she.
me?
Tommy
"
Grace
You've
about
couldn't
wish
be
own.
your
I know
that
hke
enough.
But
Loring.
you.
Tommy?
was
I'd
whatever
attractive
Couldn't
"
No,
"
While
doctor
remember
and
"
For
I'm
the
not
first
I
"
be!
Tommy
romantic.
me!
knew
you
you.
Tommy!
wouldn't
Grace
"
of
{turning away).
"
you
tell
you
refused
I
say
asked
you
you've never
I thought
"
home
Oh,
"
Tommy
time,
can
know.
"
Grace
offer
how
But
Tommy?
spoke
sense
Yep!
"
Tommy
of
Me?
"
Grace
grain
Can
him)
You
"
Tommy
the
one
{Crosses to
Tommy?
is it?
Honest, who
{Pause)
Who
truth
hasn't
she
Then
"
told
He
all of
you
just couldn't!
out
were
me
told
me
them,
was
a
and
all
lot
there
wrong
of
I'll
with
"
do
you
the
Dick
I
things
I couldn't
tell
to
tonight,
ought to be
do.
them
I can't
if I did.
'"THE
I
going
was
I told
and
told
he
speak
to
doctor
the
FIRST
to
and
again
"
I had
Tommy
and
Grace
the
telephone
I wasn't
"
it.
do
to
Did
it !
was
he
rang,
I had
tell you
reason
didn't
He
"
romantic
the
tonight.
quarrel?
And
"
Tommy
mother
Yes.
"
Grace
73
and
then
that
"
Dick
father
your
I was,
me
YEAR"
time.
have
be
just said
her
quick!
(laughing). You
grab
"
He
do
love
lot, don't
me
Tommy?
you,
Tommy
Oh, Grace,
"
Grace
would
Grace
"Wait!
"
Tommy
Grace
I wouldn't
if
same
when
All
"
took
we
we
came
you
yes?
"
said
we
"yes"
"
and
place
some
away
go
one
any
marry
Tommy
If
Provided
"
if
Yes
"
much!
wonder
to.
how
Grace
"
have
if I said
me
marry
Tommy
don't
You
"
tell you
I can't
live.
to
stay here.
the
it be
almost
right. Wouldn't
Then,
couple of trips every
year?
a
be practically
back, everything would
new!
Grace
Tommy
Grace
All
"
compromise
right.
that, Tommy!
on
is
there
But
my
business,
"
Grace
build
up
ask
Grace
Tommy
Tommy
after
manages
Haven't
"
another
Tommy
you
I won't
"
I could
That's
Gee!
"
is
all his
that
do
yourself
to
Is that
all
Grace?
me,
"
in
enough
place?
other
some
Yes, I guess
"
of
"
faith
you
all, Tommy!
What
lucky
little flustered
worrying,
finallyto simimon
he
by
is
at
the
fellow
the
last
I am!
realization
engaged,
boldness
that,
but
necessary
he
to
place
He
bargain with
engaged man
an
the
seal
as
it,
to
rightful
his
take
to
chair.
of Grace's
arm
effort
conscious
about
natural
perfectly
the
on
after
too,
manages,
and
kiss
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
74
his
put
being
'at
around
arm
shoulders.
Grace's
Tommy
And
"
really
you
get
to
want
from
away
here?
Grace
Oh
"
want
to
to
go
some
place!
strange
Tommy
"
Tommy
Do
Yes.
"
Grace
How
right.
Joplin?
All
"
Grace
think
you
Missouri?
Joplin,
about
you'd
like
that?
Oh,
yes.
Well, that's
"
Tommy
"
there
out
Tommy,
yes.
fine, because
there's
man
"
Soon
the room
the light fades.
(and the
Gradually
A clock
strikes
twelve.
darkness.
theater) are in utter
has
the
The
evening
passed.
Slowly
lights go
up
and
Grace
in
the
sitting
are
Tommy
same
again.
into
position, gazing
Tommy
other's
each
eyes.
(finishing speech).
"
More
in
the
Grace
More
it's
Grace
Mrs.
"
heard
Yes,
"
He's
off.
down
The
(from
head
world
the
of stairs). Grace,
do
o'clock?
mother.
Has
Tommy
gone?
kisses
just going ! (Tommy
"
outside
the street.
door
Grace,
in
anybody
twelve
Livingston
Grace
sneaks
than
Livingston
know
you
body
any-
world?
"
Mrs.
than
shuts
and
humming
the
stairs.
what
do
(Curtain)
you
his
to
When
her
whistle
and.
is
herself,turns
she is halfway
think?
"THE
FIRST
Act
later
year
Grace
and
YEAR"
75
II
Tommy
settled
are
in their
It is a cozy
but
little apartment,
Joplin apartment.
of the living
small, and they are obliged to use a comer
when
as
a
room
Probably,
they are
dining room.
all
her
that
Grace
does
work, they
alone, seeing
own
take many
of their meals
in the kitchen.
But
tonight
and
the table is to be set in
they are having company
the
The
Barstows
They
larger room.
coming.
are
Barstow
is a business
are
strangers to Grace, but Mr.
and
both
she and
are
Tommy
prospect of Tommy's
anxious
off
all
that
terribly
right.
everjrthing shall go
Grace
is especially worried
the colored
because
woman
whom
she had
depended to help her has sent word
by
on
her
with the
daughter, Hattie, that, being laid up
is only
There
to come.
"misery," she will be unable
and
that
is to press
one
thing to do in the emergency
is a willing
Hattie
into service
Hattie
as
serving maid.
a
she
washes
better
much
that
girl, but she admits
tion,
instructhan
she waits
table, and, despite careful
on
is going to
Grace
has
a
feeling that something
she
However,
only hope for the best.
happen.
can
It is almost
table
time
for
dinner
and
she
to
the
set
and
Tommy
"
Grace
"
help and
never
still has
seen?
Aren't
How
had
you
would
little
dismayed
He
it is.
and
feel
people coming
if you
for
the
from
arrival
were
dinner
to
offers
to
finally
Grace
of
increasing
been
?
left without
you
had
Tommy
make
and
dear,
understand,
will
they
Why,
"
1920-1"21
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
76
allowances.
Grace
Will
"
Don't
they
forget
is
of them
one
woman.
Tommy
I'm
"
tonight
told
with
dinner
have
to
is
us
"
Grace
{putting napkins
all right, but
why
"
with
us
is
place
to
dinner?
no
him
I wanted
you
she
I haven't
will, and
she
If
will.
Barstow
husband
like her
anything
Mrs.
sure
It would
dinner
table). Having
on
have
them
take
not
out
much
been
some
simpler
and
expensive.
more
Tommy
"
here.
It's
but
know,
business
wanted
Barstow
and
reason
to
come
important
very
one.
Grace
that
like
"
I might
home.
watched
cabbage
(She goes
realize
it
suppose
to
to
go
from
this
eternal
into
"
you
Grace
"
table).
for
out
go
it
that
"
cooking and
of eating food
honestly so tired
cook, I'd be willing to
if I could
occurred
ever
restaurant
am
Tommy
on
like
change
don't
make
"
you
might
eating at
meal
and
to
I
of
I hate
have
boiled
cabbage.
kitchen.)
(goes
door, calls
to
felt that
way!
(comes
with
That's
in
off
her).
to
and
pitcher
water
the
didn't
fillsglasses
off
potatoes
next.
Tommy
"
Well
then,
tomorrow
dinner, and
place
any
How's
on
better
I'll
"
eat
and
say
boiled
have
how
see
anjrthing
I feel.
table.) Tommy!
and
hurry now
get
Tommy
Grace
down
you
won't
to
Go
want.
you
that?
Grace
glass
we
out
night you
go
cabbage either.
"
do
you
mean
dressed!
what
drinks
from
You'd
that!
"
by get dressed
I say.
You're
Just
dinner
looking like that!
"
to
What
(Tommy
just filled
not
going
to
sit
FIRST
'THE
Tommy
But
"
Grace
don't
you
mean
"
that, Grace!
77
full dress
my
Certainly I do.
(almost crying). Oh,
dresses for
Nobody
"
Tommy
YEAR'
I don't
Now
"
But
better.
we
think
them
make
to
least
at
going
not
are
don't
we
know
have
do
to
in Joplin!
dinner
bad
It's
!
listen, Tommy
invite people to little cramped
have
to
these, and we can't help it if they think
Grace
suit?
enough to
quarters like
afford
can't
we
to
in
act
way
better.
any
So
hurry up!
Tommy
"
You
enough.
wear
it's
"
Tommy
shirt
she
all
and
He
been
one
time
there
is
that
her
best
wedding
done
and
if the
Grace
"
Tommy
is
"
"
she
did
out
in the
gone.
realizes
situation
is to
I'm
It's
not
the
be
now
-such
she
wished
he
she
might
has
about
table
asked
her
if she
had
she
mean
seeds.
the
he
If
bulge.
on
kitchen
"
with
things
has
he
and
dinner
she
dish
Tommy
the
Grace
one
that
seen
which
About
and
had
knows
was
That
is almost
the
last
that
something
must
be
saved.
sorry!
too, but
sorry
when
vegetable
What's
"
get the
taken
crash
present
Tommy
I'm
to
dress
only
that
once
Just
that
it
in his
shirts.
to
The
bother
let
to
around
do
she
them
something
studs,
can't
tell her
to
his
melon"
the
had
straw,
have
Hattie
to
but
them,
will
can
person
"seeded
Grace
about
for
holes
But
quit messing
explain
never
wear
have
you
dressing.
three
careful
so
known
I have.
has
studs.
would
have
find
glad
trouble
some
don't
you
be
to
than
more
can
only two
things now.
hadn't
ought
has
he
because
That's
"
to, but
me
in them.
feel comfortable
Grace
want
the
use
it doesn't
always
of
being sorry.
help matters.
darkest
before
Tommy?
dawn.
Grace
"
we've
But
So
they
say.
know,
but
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OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
78
long arctic
had
to
have
night.
Tommy
"
sunshine
life of
going
we're
now.
"
Tommy
to
Grace
Good
"
Tommy
"
I won't
surprise
"
Grace
news?
You'll
"
Tommy
yet.
you
Yes.
"
Grace
mean?
you
tell
to
"
want
do
What
{comes to Tommy).
want
Well, I don't
surprise you.
Grace
whole
is it?
What
right.
later.
chair). Tommy
in
spot until
this
from
budge
all
me
Tucker,
tell
you
what
me
it
is!
Tommy
{triesto get
"
Well, we're
Grace
going to
{sitson
"
Tommy
Yes,
"
Grace
Who
"
Tommy
piece of property
going to be?
have
options
to
Missouri
did
that
I'll tell
the
Wait
"
"
"
the
you
about
park
amusement
six
last
those
of the
named
secretary
Tommy
all
on
well
fellow
railroad
"
Grace
was
around
lots
whole
I have
months
until
there
thing, pretty
been
I
nearly.
Well?
"
"
of
myself
telling
my
where
"
control
gotten
Tommy
remember
"
Grace
it
making
Yes.
"
buying
Tommy!
I'm
you
Tommy
lap).
died?
Do
"
Grace
his
it).
means
Tellme!
"
Tommy
rich.
Nobody.
"
G^ACE
be
are
we
'that she
Seeing
up.
Of
A.J.
railroad.
because
You've
you.
Doane,
who
used
of
president
minute
heard
the
heard
to
"
"
be
good
thority
au-
speak
me
confidential
road?
president
the
railroad
Joplin
Frisbee
is president of
a
on
of
and
the
what
road?
Missouri
Joplin
and
"THE
Grace
All
"
Tommy
Doane
FIRST
right
Doane
"
told
spur
line, and
that
would
who
"
that
the
the
private
railroad
the
over
secretary
going
was
they'd
route
right
pass
79
is Doane?
his
was
that
me
YEAR"
build
to
would
take
property
and
"
be
one
telling
am
about.
you
Grace
I don't
"
Tommy
it yet.
see
can't
Well, railroads
just go out and be
railroad, can
a
they?
They have to buy the property
before they can
put their tracks down, don't they?
"
Grace
Tommy
from
"
the
Grace
Oh,
I suppose
And
if
"
Tommy,
Tommy
here
"
is what
didn't
here
coming
don't
have
to
to
tell
want
tonight
tell you
to
is the
the
"
purchasing
me.
Well,
who
man
agent
buy
fully)
doubt-
(Then
thing!
they'llbuy it ?
smile
of great assurance).
sure
You
wonderful
(with
land
they have
land, don't they?
the
I see!
you
you
the
they get
owns
I see!
"
Are
is
who
man
so.
for
the
road.
Grace
Tommy
The
at
He
"
and
Tommy
her
had
have
Grace
at
Oh
"
I gave
half
him
him
(aftera pause
questioningly) You
"
I said
"
said, the
option
two-day
tonight.
a
Grace
talks.
two-day
option
Yes?
"
which
during
didn't
How
"
day
before
he's
"
much
are
you
got
he
Grace
"
Grace
Tommy
"
Guess
I
"
"
do
much
I don't
"
Tommy
How
you
going
to
think?
know.
!
couldn't.
htmdred
thousand
looked
to
yesterday I gave
to
something
say
Tommy?
Tommy
has
attention
pay
what
dozen
dollars!
charge
him,
Grace
No
"
Tommy
the
"
to
nerve
Grace
Oh,
I'll
Tommy
Do
options.
at
names
Grace
Tommy
it
I
that
the
present
"
buy
to
through
I
said
haven't
was
because
needed
to
haven't
we
with
thing
every-
those
buy
cent
one
to
time?
"
I broke
cent
morning
this
Paris
me
are
why
"
together
know
Not
"
this
you
No
"
We
know
You
scrape
told
you
will !
you
spend
let's
or
could
I had
bet
You
And
dollars!
London,
means
had
of them!
dozen
economizing.
this
oiu-
buy
"
this
buy
reproach)
(With
dress!
get it, it
if you
Tommy,
thousand
hundred
(in ecstasy).
"
clothes
aU
price.
do you ask so much?
Why
Oh, Tommy!
If I
it.
Because
they've got to have
I might
hold
out
get more.
"
Tommy
really,Tommy!
mean
the
That's
"
Grace
"
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
8o
the
took
even
last
doUars
ten
Liberty
yotir
bond,
Grace.
Tucker
didn't do that !
Tommy
you
You
said it was
there
Yes, I did, Grace.
of need, and
I needed
it.
You
don't
mind, do
Grace
Tommy
in
"
case
dear?
you,
Grace
and
then
proud
so
Tommy
he
barrels
Barstow
"
goes
leave
after
borrows
home
to
her
make
some
the
Hattie
incident
her
for
swimmingly
only induces
taking
to
"
make
to
say,
"
moment
lot
you
now.
them.
{Starts
Tommy,
I'm
of you.
not
to
am
going
are
Everything
but
get dressed
"
if you
not
"
And
"
Grace
to go,
No
"
of money.
Tommy
go
"
"
mammy
orange
with
blossom
to
stay
of the
her
the
little
(she
was
while.
pared
pre-
vegetable dish)
(the gin she was
misery)
cocktails
and
with
tells
it
"
"THE
two
weak
ones
for
FIRST
for
ones
the
YEAR"
himself
and
Barstows.
8i
Grace,
Then
he
and
two
goes
to
people,
he
strong
finish
his
dressing.
The
Barstows
business
man,
she
cocktails
make
least.
He
at
under
bit
each
time.
with
the
were
to
She
influence
of
is all
about
the
it
option,
naturally,
to
bell
rings.
in, and
and
it too
The
the
caller
the
dinner
been
subject
he
Tommy's
"delirium
much
little
just
can't
"
the
guests
in
melons
around
Mrs.
and
stow,
Bar-
amusement-
undiplomatically
help talking
to
price.
of joy," but
and
just then
and
tension,
soon
steps
the
The
Loring.
is Dick
her
the
decided
has
is
warming
willing to be
the
"
soned,
poi-
the
is
of
he
Starting
Under
Barstow
wifelike
breaks
That
over."
that
at
in
are
show
not
follows.
admits
he
"
has
plain-spoken
introduced
who,
since
she
mistake.
one
Mr.
When
is
Barstow
drink
the. left of
to
the
cocktail
property
by Grace,
Mr.
suddenly that
promptly turns
first and
communicative.
park
only
remarks
the
it,and
go
remembers
course
another
carefully watching
to
makes
"Well,"
of
best
typical
friendly. The
with
"
suspects
Hattie
she
soup
be served
them
such
remember
to
"that
with
had
the
with
trying
hit
flashy, but
Barstow
makes
and
exits.
Mrs.
way,
little
hasn't
left Texas.
but
pleasant
are
Grace
take
up
Tuckers,
they try
the
a
door
surprise
lets
him
happiness the
has
ing
success
given her by throwthought of Tommy's
neck
and
her
Dick's
about
greeting him
arms
with
that
does
show
of affection
not
a
exactly please
gives
vent
to
little
of
the
Tommy.
just passing through town,
that
minutes
to
he had
few
and, naturally,
a
spare
He
has
been
wanted
his old friends.
to see
traveling
lot of late, but
is settled
appointed
just been
a
now;
head
of the
construction
assistant
to the
department
Dick
of
the
explains
Joplin
that
and
he
is
Missouri
road.
Mr.
Barstow
is
particularly glad
Barstow
about
things
Grace
"
would
hearing
Loring.
Mr.
you,
I'm
give
good
Dick
knew
all
didn't
himself,
of
account
fine
very
some
We
have.
you
sure
they
that
road.
same
been
We've
"
the
with
associated
be
to
are
Loring, seeing
Mr.
meet
to
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
82
we.
Tommy?
Tommy
himself
for
Well, of
"
give
better
of
account
Dick.
than
Dick
would
Nobody
"
broken
has
luck
I will admit
course,
me.
Barstow
being
"
down
position.
How
it is that
to
answer
offers.
reputation of
judgment is needed.
the
with
us
where
judge
good
very
better
even
to
come
pretty good
Well, the
Dick
You
"
have
And
ing
hold-
am
doing,
been
you
had
have
Tommy?
Tommy
Oh, I'm
"
Grace
Dick
"
Grace
Tommy
Dick
is
was
that
going
has
to
buy
Oh, that
"
new
to
of
big piece
build
spur
new
property
the
road.
line?
Yes.
"
Good
boy, Tommy.
has
been
awfully clever about
Tommy
old amusement
found
park, and Tommy
"
Grace
It
didly,
splen-
mind!
Tommy
"
Tommy
Dick
Never
"
railroad
right.
"
"
Grace
all
out
He's
all right !
out
doing
Making
is going to be a rich man
!
Tommy
so?
rich?
Is that
Tommy
sold
Yes, Tommy's
"
Dick
making
"
an
it.
out
"
Dick
Amusement
"
Tommy
No,
"
Scott, Hillsboro
Dick
"
So
in KnoUwood,
park?
you
are
by
Hillsboro?
Great
by Hillsboro, KnoUwood.
thirty-five miles south of here.
going to sell the railroad property
are
you?
not
is
Out
"THE
Tommy
FIRST
YEAR"
83
with
"
"
make
"
rich?
you
Tommy
Dick
"
Grace
Dick
be
to
"
Because
"
built
Grace
Dick
going
Dick
what
withdraw
Tommy's
says
so.
hear
you
the
road's
Well,
ought
Mr.
heard
said?
what
he
know
to
Barstow,
talking about
what
he
said.
What
something
I'm
"
it!
construct
is
what
it ?
about
convinces
he
where
not
Certainly,
know
"
to
Did
"
he
what
Oh,
"
Tommy
Knollwood's
Oh, Tommy!
"
Grace
interests.
all.
at
"
Tommy
does
"
he
said
and
about
holdings. Tommy
Probably Loring
to help Barstow
at
least, that
drive
told
to
to
the
up
suspects
was
knows
is inclined
Barstow
taking
he
option on
frame-up, and
come
in
at
that
84
THE
she says
and
make
clothes
You
going
get-there
to
had
we
to
"Is
a
that
little
bit
for
two
and
what
Tommy
tired
of
another,
bolts
Grace
she
emerges
and
umbrella.
she
as
starts
Tommy
is dressed
the
her
are
her
at
"
ten
o'clock
going
to
to
"
picks
in
this
I said
"
"
all.
I'm
just
going
not.
go
to
like
get
you're
her)
to
You're
house!
you'U
going
no,
I won't,
and
wiU
it, Tommy.
What
leave
not
to
did
this
prevent
you
"
say?
flat.
me?
am
Oh
"
stand
those
you're
leave
hag
front of her)
up
astonishment
eh ?
not,
What's
"
Tommy
Tommy
in
bag
home.
(turning to him).
"
Tommy
Grace
go
such
any
No,
"
going
Grace
do
and
take
I'm
"
Tommy
Grace
train
You
"
Grace
not
that's
"
Tommy
not
carries
silly'
"
(snaps fingers)
that
she
going?
you
"
"
denly
sud-
gloves.
going home!
be
Tommy
You
don't
why
Grace
I'm
not
silly! I can't
I stay here
nerves
longer my
any
that
leads
I'm
"
"
If
tell him
When
and
street
looks
on
and
bedroom.
the
for
Tommy
putting
hotel
cutting remark
family quarrels, and
in
into
Where
"
Grace
will
they
as
his
just
One
."
as
thinks,
Loring
Mr.
to
I'm
"Well,
what
to
well,' just
..."
over
go
front
brave
very
counters.
of him!
I think
on
doing
hearing
I'd
put
to
tonight
so?"
pins
have
'we're
say,
Dick
to
say
we'll
and
of those
one
and
men,
friends
our
be
to
cooking
own
my
and
shirts
fit and
don't
that
1 11 do
"
dresses,
own
my
are
in flats
always live
"
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
you
won't
eh?
Well,
umbrella,
Don't
be
!
you
starts
foolish
try and
for
now,
door.
see!
Tommy
Grace.
(Grace
gets
"THE
Grace
Get
"
still blocks
YEAR"
my
!
Don't
Tucker!
Tommy
Tommy
shouldn't
you
have
85
way,
please!
Don't
hold
You're
you
didn't
tried
to
(Tommy
me
that
to
hurt
me!
hurting
(releasing her).
"
but
of
out
way)
the
way,
you,
FIRST
mean
leave
I said
when
to!
not
Grace
You
"
Tommy
I'm
"
giving
not
are
going
not
orders
give Dick
to
me!
to
satisfaction
the
of
busting
Grace
be
Dick
don't
crazy
that's
The
"
that's
"
world
for
all,and
be
it!
to
I want
with
do
to
suggest
should
with
trouble
all !
it at
I have
you,
but
go
home
to
like
is that
you
isn't
There
going
your
tried
you're
to
my
good
one
you're train
that
this, except
in the
reason
want
you
to
place.
some
Grace
things
That's
just
say!
Well,
it's so!
"
you
Tommy
unless
"
left
you
make
was
wife
nothing
Tommy
to
has
dare
even
everything
mother
Loring
you
just impossible,
go
home
our
"
all, and
to
up
some
train
the
money,
wouldn't
I told
as
some
get married
I
you
going
was
first
and
boat
sensible
as
You
When
town.
or
about
about
stay
nothing
"
to
and
cook
but
do
for
sew
you
for
eleven
months.
Tommy
Grace
business
business
Tommy
want
to
I don't
"
Well,
Yes, you
here.
Well,
did !
"
you
"
have
If
have
expect
wanted
never
done!
you'll keep
just
one
last
to
have
it
"
done
it
quiet
an
to
could
you
and
"
Joplin !
what
do
a
stroke!
master
word
come
said
You
have
you
to
for
with
echo
one
you.
is the
minute
Of
course
only thing
could
that
that
out
do
Of
Tommy
course
"
Grace
through
are
rises, and
umbrella,
and
go
!
goes
are
it!
mean
hope
"
bag
we
this, if you
understand
and
you
"
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OF
but
"
{picks up
"
door).
to
that
door
Grace
PLAYS
BEST
THE
86
do
you
do
so
"
{Opens door)
I!
Good-bye!
Tommy
Good-bye!
"
stands
Tommy
has
slammed
for
door.
the
He
mutters.
sees
"All
how
she'll
see
far
obstinate
as
and
as
right,"
he
with
go
bet
drinks
it
"he
"
drinks
himself, "let's
to
I'U
Grace
and
tray
mumbles
He
did
she
the
on
it.
is!"
she
God,
"My
cocktail
itatagulp.
listening after
moment
fust
be
can
cocktail,
another
is
effect
he
little of the
a
as
beginning to show
talks to an
"If you
had
said to me
imaginary Grace.
all wrong,
Tommy,
are
Tommy,
are
you
wrong.
you
said
I knew
it.
But
when
not
likely I'd have
very
that
Let
ask
No, sir!
speak to me
me
you
way
haven't
I been
I've tried to
good husband?
a
you
be thoughtful and
know
I haven't
considerate, and you
"
"
"
looked
even
around
arms
my
been
you
You
don't
for the
Tommy
and
wife, the
But
Hattie
at another
did, and
know
who
man
way
I couldn't
wasn't
did!
you
that's
how
woman
what
it hurt
my
hurts
have
thrown
wouldn't
it hurts
"
do
that!
me
here.
Grace!"
me,
The
"
everybody's
Hattie
is
and
shouldn't
Let
her
mix
Let
her
him
a
they've counted
waiting
ten
"
out!
sjmipathetic,
Tucker
mix
bell's rung,
if I'd
husband,
be
and
drinking
another
pitcherful!
one.
The
also
them
Good
door
anxious.
warm
Mr.
cocktails.
! agrees
Thomas.
bell rings. "Now,
"THE
Tommy,"
her
mutters
after
"
door
the
park, just
Barstow
Tommy
"
Tommy
"
Barstow
"
Tommy
Barstow
throws
He
open
has
come
little mistake
(Barstow)
and
Missouri
not
know
had
had
what
had
that
arrangement
that
telephoned
and
going through
thought.
he
discovered
talking
was
the
of
the
amusement
is all
ours
right!
Well,
"
And
"
deal's
all off!
sell at
as
have
You
"
he
was
given
price, and
Loring
that way!
been, you'd
had
long
as
if
"
it
put
if he
Barstow
right.
if I weren't
deal's
you'd
He
Barstow.
He
weren't
Not
"
Tommy
"
all that?
told you
Who
is, is it?
Well, isn't it ? You
agreed to sell.
And
agreed to buy, but you renigged!
you
Oh
out to telephone
no, I didn't ! I went
if you
see
woman
jus' forgive
an'
It
"
Barstow
and
So
"
87
man
correct
was
they
as
to
Joplin
Loring did
road
stands
of the
The
about.
there
made.
Mr.
"be
only
explains,
president
that
and
had
Loring
YEAR"
Tommy,
all, she's
"
he
back,
FIRST
said
have
I say
wrong,
me
I think
was.
word
your
ought
you
the
the
that
to
stand
I brought
Now, here is a certified check
that ought
with me
tonight for twenty-five thousand
intentions
when
I came
here
to be enough proof of my
here
Tommy
When
yes!
came
you
on
your
word.
"
"
"
"
Barstow
thousand
Tommy
"
the
you
the
deeds
are
It
"
Barstow
best
All
"
But
was.
pay
right!
{picks up
you'll do
the
other
made
was
when
seventv-five
over.
hundred
fifty thousand
I won't
"
"
Well, that
"
price jumped
Tommy
only
That's
"
Barstow
the
give
when
Barstow
Tommy
I'll
thousand.
price!
your
left
you
so
abruptly
dollars.
it !
check, puts
on
hat).
Is
that
Tommy
Barstow
Tommy
"
hundred
it
and
sting
It's
nearer
it's
only
"
Want
"
out
I say
it?
Because
But
"
Tommy
the
right.
price, so
twenty-five !
and
Barstow
That's
I made
when
than
to-morrow
o'clock.
quite nine
(looks at watch).
Not
"
is it?
time
What
(rises.)
"
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
88
it tomorrow
sell
I'U
don't
if you
who
somebody
to
take
will
good.
you
Barstow
All
"
right,
and
hundred
twenty-five
thousand.
Tommy
All
Barstow
"
Barstow
with
I'm
"
customer
do
business
And
I'd
be
to
be
to
Tommy
rich!
I'm
house
with
to
With
fourteen
Grace
has
that
realizes
that
he
Hattie
gone.
She
leaving.
.Sit
"
and
confortable.
has
is at
down,
Go
put
least
on,
her
sit
sit here
down!
work
think
this
"
"
because
clothes
street
to
the
at
to
Grace,
someone
Hattie,
won't
I tell her
on
wife
that
doesn't
tell
the
my
'11 have
When
of
everything's
wear
Grace
can't
so
ruefully
gazes
un'erling.
that
I'll
lots
around
all
and
"Loring
"
with
imibrella
an
$25,000.
for
as
be
going
car
to,
Tommy
gone
for
more
will
measure
wants
only thing
the
"
I'm
am.
Pulknan
she
smart?
big house
running
and
time
me
life I
track
engine
check
smart
he
Tommy
railroad
years
Then
is
have
Barstow
certified
as
to
any
fit
to
made
I'm
going
an
travel
going
your
and
servants
can
bet
I'm
!
are
you
You
"
man.
Think
more.
I think
"
business
smart
if I drank
Barstow
be
tough
tonight.
smarter
and
You're
"
Tommy
be
right.
All right.
"
talk
"
to.
you'll
(Hattie
"THE
See
sits)
that?
Hattie
And
"
she
I'd
and
love
to
ought
But
didn't.
she
Hattie
she
to
be
and
She
And
"
she
they
minute.
who
man,
does, and
man
I'd
and
forgive her.
me!
Tucker.
Mr.
She
It
it
knew
wasson
said
Everybody
yourself, 'cause
toughest spot two
and
first year.
told.
been
this
a
do
mistakes
makes
warned!
was
to
all, jus'
up,
bad,
Tucker
here
ever3rthing
make
too
control
the
twenty-five
!
Mrs.
was
that's
jus' lef
difficul' the
hadn't
if she
does
That's
"
Tommy
going
for
money
to
loved, who
who
forgive
to
that
give
be
Sweet
Hattie;
man,
89
check
with
pleased
only
wants
That's
Mnrnirnriirnm
"
Tommy
I'm
YEAR"
dollars, certified!
thousand
what
FIRST
to
was
though
as
her, Grace,
the
first year
of married
be placed in
people can
life is
and
"
right.
were
Hattie
Mr.
Yes,
"
Tucker.
Well,
guess
I'll be
going.
Tommy
Hattie
"
Tommy
give
the
Not
you
gonner
I gotta
offer.
second
Hattie
Yes,
"
as
piece
year!
you
Mr.
gets Grace's
Tommy
put' a record
of
advice
"
man,
don't
Hattie,
get
let
married
Tucker.
picture
from
the
desk.
He is gazing
phonograph.
wails
picture as the phonograph
Act
He
has
fully
sorrow-
Tosti's
It
III
is
scene
Reading.
married
ole
forever!"
"Good-bye,
The
be.
the
on
the
at
yet.
Then,
"
married
you
Oh,
"
Tommy
untU
"
"
Hattie
me
Are
"
in
bells
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
90
"
Grace
is it you
What
"
Livingston
Mrs.
reached
home
Grace
you
I didn't
in
kept
in
know?
like
to
know
in
house
the
aU
about
told
I missed
that
let you
be fun
know
morning,
whole
week,
and
happened
since
that's
connection
my
told
and
you,
it's
just
horrid
all
the
time.
And
parents'
of the room
home
"
and
if
the
up
behavior
strange
has
sure
of
husband's
her
their
it."
She
come
couldn't
back.
angered
with
any
by
idea
when
he
do
that
And
does
think
questions
me
in
own
my
crying
runs
"
leaving
do
is to
real
out
he
husband
at
back
He'll
ask
all
see
and
gest
sug-
agreeable.
Tommy
her
only
haps
Per-
business
Livingston,
didn't
money,
the
so
the
thing
some-
help them.
is not
Mr.
sure
father.
couldn't
to
their
is
festate
agrees
she
her
all
if that
Grace
But, suggests
this
attitude,
of
And
She's
lost
"They've
thing they,
parents, can
they can
buy Tommy's
for him.
Perhaps they can,
But
thought
stayed in the
attention
daughter.
her
it.
Louis
stairs.)
calls
of
{She
and
welcome
not
leave.
happened.
I'm
Fred.
I'm
can
Livingston
Mrs.
and
"
St.
because
coming
was
you
at
to
because
house
you
the
it would
why
Joplin.
Haven't
"
to
o'clock
the
dumb
so
"
told
three
at
why
you've
why you're
you've lived
I'd
"
want
to
little
married
coming
back
FIRST
"THE
father
her
for
spiritedly,that
she
her, and
would.
another
day,"
another
day!"
At
which
doctors'
cries.
she
convention,
Doctor
around
Uncle
Oh,
"
Doctor
Not
from
{Throws
her
arms
sobbing.)
will
that,
going
upset
to
you,
like
her
it.
mean
heard
never
earth
stop
was
is the matter?
on
it easy.
in my
this before
There,
to
I didn't
her
"
Goodness,
her
think
I didn't
Tell
house
all this?
what's
"
Myron
Get
"
Myron?
this
returning
and
his neck
Livingston
in
support
room.
Gracie, what
Why,
"
Grace
the
to
understand?
Anderson,
enters
replies
Oh
"
him
stay
you
"
Grace
won't
"Do
Dr.
Grace
asked
never
"I
juncture
Doctor
that.
had
91
which
To
support!
to
never
YEAR"
like
cry
you
life.
Grace
you're
"
back
Doctor
What
"
is it ?
Grace
I
to
weren't
God
doctor
They
amount
home
me
to
wasn't
when
is
bless
it, Gracie?
I wanted
to
tell
you!
but
home,
came
ask
in
Gracie
you
the
stopped off
Joplin. Did
he
the
as
saw
exactly
Tommy.
all
to
visit
he
see
Was
right.
He
It didn't
have
would
He
found
been
friends
some
Tommy
Grace, suddenly interested. Well,
he
Livingstons
convention.
tells them.
he
in
whispers
subject
the
about
him
(Grace
it, Gracie?
you,
changes
much,
friends
"
glad
it !
something
was
is
what
Now,
all about
tell you
earlier,but
some
yes
Tell
I!
What
"
ear)
enter.
am
so
here.
Doctor
The
So
There
"
wanted
his
"
I'm
Uncle,
"
Oh,
Tommy?
mands
all right? deno
an
"
Tommy
ambulance
BEST
PLAYS
to
Tommy
Something
the
THE
92
had
taken
arrived
"
seemed
have
to
Grace
"
Grace
him
don't
Grace
Grace
quarreled
quarreled
fought!
And
of
he'd
at
what
had
like
time
I'm
pointment,
disap-
And
I'd
And
that.
to
we
wretch
great
going back
going to do
I'm
then
miserable
just
Tommy^
And
everything!
and
myself,
was
'd
lost
him
that's
"
Tommy
and
leave
with
"
"
Because
to
truth, mother!
You
forever.
"
it.
so
it,
about
what?
about
the
"
Not
"
separated
him
all
to
got
What?
that's
Yes,
"
ashamed
I've
But
know
You
Know
"
Livingston
right
aU.
at
leaving him.
Livingston
do
to!
let it upset
don't
Now
danger
time-table).
"
My
"
Mrs.
"
time-table?
in any
got
Livingston
Mrs.
drunk
or
"
Uncle?
Grace
to
isn't
I've
"
you,
Mrs.
eaten
he
before
day
the
him.
{examining
"
to
get
had
he
poisoned
He
Grace.
you,
1920-1921
hospital
{excitedly). Where's
{secretlypleased).
"
Doctor
OF
Five
"
I'm
and
him
no
tell
fifty-
seven.
Livingston
"
{in
voice). Well,
loud
I'll
be
damned!
Mrs.
Livingston
Livingston
Mrs.
be
about
Livingston
"
"
Livingston
Livingston
it.
"
Livingston
Livingston
Mrs.
"
"
the
It's
Livingston
Livingston
Mrs.
WeU,
"
Livingston
bothered
Mrs.
"
French
"
for
Fred
I will!
Did
do
Oh,
paper
In
you
this?
see
stop, Fred
We
can't
now.
about
"
Tommy!
paper?
the
Yes!
"
Read
Joplin boy
"
Well
it!
makes
Makes
then,
coop
clean-up.
coup.
what?
"
whatever
you
call
"THE
Mrs.
FIRST
Livingston
Livingston
railroad
Read
"
purchased
the
The
start
once
and
thousand
twenty-five
Joplin and
Amusement
la3dng tracks
largest price paid to any one
at
for
holder
dollars
Livingston
said
Tommy
Livingston
Mrs.
was
So
"
our
Livingston.
back
leans
in his
wonderful?
ways
al-
boy.
it's all true.
hope
it's true,
Oh,
"
Frederick
of
I.
I
"
Tucker,
son-in-law
and
The
hundred
one
Thomas
the
will
line.
was
that
smart
did
Livingston
Doctor
Ain't
"
and
new
to
Thomas
Tucker
is
Reading.
distinguished fellow citizen, Mr.
Livingston
(Hands paper to Mrs.
chair with great pomp).
Missouri
Park
its
of
Mrs.
93
it!
(reading).
"
has
YEAR"
sister
doubt
no
"
about
that.
Livingston
A
hundred
You
Grace
of
She
she
to
is
very
unhappy
in
the
her
Missouri
not
that
line
he
on
"
"
has
and
had
account
to
ask
had
she
that
now
girl
arouse
But
He
Loring again.
tell them
him
"
failed;
had
back
hall
She
now.
he
thought
for
spur
back
go
going
come
it
he
isn't
Tommy.
just dropped in
lost his job with
of
what
Grace
he'd
what
accused
"Tommy
she explains; "of
been
spoken to
"Well," answers
night
the
me
of
of
lots
just everything.
in my
life the
Dick,
"I
way
don't
but
has
It's
this
"
the
Dick
time
to
and
Joplin
about
Tommy
please
"
Grace
as
the
tells
result
of
Barstows'
visit.
things that
night,"
the
of
think
Tommy
it in Reading.
anything about
say
have
that
she and
separated
Tommy
happened
him!
"
said
and
"
Tommy
moment
Maybe
successful.
was
her.
(To
wouldn't
that
at
left
to
him
right.
dollars!
twenty-five thousand
picked a fine time for a fight with
can't
voices
it
generally gets
paper
and
Grace)
when
This
"
Why,
he
I've
talked
know
as
never
to
me!"
blame
course
there
hasn't
had
for
if
are
looking
her
at
back.
and
cane
moment,
imtil
is
the
Dick
hat
facirg
them.
him
grabbing
mix-up Dick
and
turns
the
swiftly
heap on
and
the
Tommy
getting
the
on
va,se
back;
and
Dick
the
hurls
doctor
with
soon
cut
nasty
carries
them
for
comes
his
throws
and
screams
Now
jaw
they
are
In
the
all the
Dick
kicks
they
him
in
are
Dickon
stronger
as
the
on
and
cane
startled
the
him
down
second
wheels
gray
He
other
top.
back
just
and
knocks
Tommy
of them
frightens both
The
does
the
head
at
at
have
of
this
hits
the
help
it at
his
moves
new
worst
seeing
coat,
gives
another
Tommy
judgment.
for
doorway
and
he
stands
wildly.
and
rips it
cutaway
and
is screaming
as
floor, with
cries
looks
Grace
each
at
Grace
her
the
spats.
and
Dick
In
hitting
grabs the
with
whose
Grace,
her
back.
and
face.
down.
quiet
to
the
and
cutaway
Suddenly
toward
knocks
up
in
slap
in
table
floor
do!"
you
arms
He
the
on
the
on
turns
way
shoes,
Tommy
It's too
bad,
"
Grace's
flowers.
his
sound
of
flowers
Tommy
and
box
puts
he
and
dressed
and
know.
ace
Of
Grace.
you,
woman,
appears
in a
up
patent-leather
trousers,
of
to
an
on
Tommy
is all
He
deserved
as
1920-1921
experience
hands
his
puts
handle
to
ways
fellow
OF
being jealous
enough
ever
He
PLAYS
for
much
Tommy
BEST
THE
94
him
of
and
then
head.
the
vase
But
strikes
limp
Seeing Tommy
out.
and
Dick's
Dick
runs
for
the
doctor.
brings Tommy
to, a little dazed
the forehead, but
otherwise
on
and
all
right.
Doctor
cloth
"
Grace
napkin
feels
Tommy
hits
Grace,
"
an
"
awful
will
will
pretty bad
I
should
blow,
get
you
do.
Go
about
it.
think
she
Doctor
some
water
gently, Tommy
would!
That
and
lad,
fellow
"THE
Doctor
"
Tommy
And
"
did
way,
Doctor
Doctor
Tommy
"
Doctor
"
Tommy
Doctor
of you.
"Tommy
said
You
her
Grace
threw
break
safe.
then.
me,
getting the
was
she'd
make
"
better
I knew
sure.
had
in
said
"
out
it !
thought
she
You
Tommy
It felt like
thought Loring
there'd
Doctor
just
hit !
were
still loves
mistake
you
neck.
my
didn't
vase.
all?
that
"
"
so.
Is that
So
"
made
I had
She
"
there.
you
cut
you
no,
She
"
95
I?
With
"
hit
all swollen
I thought
"
YEAR"
bleeding.
Oh
"
Tommy
didn't
Well, it's
Yes, and
"
Doctor
that
Dick
"
Tommy
FIRST
all wrong,
Doctor.
(Grace
with
enters
water
cloth.)
and
has
He
things wrong.
he tells Grace, with aU the dignity he can
muster,
come,
that, "contrary to the opinions expressed by master
minds," he was
a
lucky enough to guess right about
it is
But
to
and
railroad
certain
which
who
Tommy
he
beHeves
his
money.
none
of
leave
it for
Doctor
"
Tommy
Before
Doctor
else in the
ask
What
"
"
would
she
Then,
What
world?
you
like her
is entitled.
Livingston.
Mr.
I'd like to
he
has
go,
to
accept
Grace
agrees
Tommy,
Good
night!
Tommy,
there's
check
will have
he
one
will
tion
ques-
you?
is
it, Doctor?
would
you
rather
be than
anything
THE
96
Tommy
Single !
"
Doctor
Grace
believe
don't
"
the
passed
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OP
PLAYS
BEST
time.
worst
Doctor
Do
"
the
passed
I have
"
You've
that.
mean
you
mind
you
time
worst
telling
what
me
had.
ever
it's all
about?
Grace
Tommy
Because
"
where
yet
arm
Brutal
"
Grace
He
I don't!
"
Doctor
you
Tommy
did
What
"
She
"
do
Why
to
were
you
held
brutal
downright
was
me!
that ?
on
my
me!
he
wanted
do
leave
to
for?
that
the
flat at
o'clock
ten
night.
at
Doctor
(To Grace).
"
Is
that
Grace
so,
what
"
for?
Grace
there
Because
"
talked
he
to
me
so
I couldn't
stay
for
good?
longer.
any
Doctor
"
Grace
you
leaving
were
Yes.
"
Doctor
And
"
he
grabbed
and
you
didn't
want
you
go?
to
Grace
Yes.
"
Doctor
Well, I know
that
flattering.
Grace
Well, I don't!
some
"
who'd
women
think
"
Doctor
whole
time
unless
you
No,
"
you'd
looking up
But,
"
Doctor
Grace
didn't
was
delirious.
and,
weren't,
been
want
to
the
leave
him.
when
the
and
of you
sick
first
she
nearly
train
that
when
Tommy,
tore
the
would
take
table,
timeher
you.
Grace
names
to
talked
Tommy
hospital,
you
heard
to
Gracie,
back
That's
"
Doctor
back
the
at
came
Tommy
Grace
Why,
"
"
and
Yes,
said
"
Uncle,
But
you
"
you
were
I won't
did,
and
ashamed
"
you
of
called
yourself.
yourself
"THE
Doctor
Stop
"
If
Tommy
"
Doctor
suffering
from
terrible,
but
has
either
it
take
at
it.
them.
about
around
to
Tommy
see
Doctor
puts
let's
so
cry,
If
you'll
laugh
away)
turns
up
you
his
hand.
be
to
want
Doctor).
at
Don't
"
it.
{She
Tommy,
baby
(looking
"
to
them
you're
now
over
cry
(He
And,
your
or
look
have
to
from
Gracie?
Tommy?
you.
that
Everybody
better
going
say,
you
again")
"Never
this
you're
apart,
do
it's
just
are
troubles
Years
at
two
anything!
to
over
laugh
you
What
How
amount
measles,
to
You
measles,
like
get
Tommy
up,
matrimonial
going
let
!
"
don't
and
young
97
think
you
and,
them,
it, Grace
Shut
"
YEAR"
FIRST
look
No!
it's
scared
so
"
happened
before.
Tommy
it
she
bows
to
asks
feels,
me!
and
forgiveness
now.
arm
around
shoulders.
demands,
her
with
incredulously.
very
her
her
earnestly
arms
around
if she
his
He
As
can
neck,
does.
"
he
like
he
and
can
"Well,"
going
and
him,
she
he
head
her
his
puts
Grace?"
true,
forgive
that
and
Grace
to
not
excitement
all
to
"Is
but
"
Tommy's
goes
know
"
observes,
sententiously,
us!"
(The
Curtain
Falls)
"I
hope
he's
MADAME"
"ENTER
IT
B anymore
John
and
she
the
against
The
Brock
of
decided
fate
that
debut.
his
"Enter
Madame"
Varesi
plajdng
little
actress
and
further
had
mother,
Mme.
all
in
Mme.
been
Elena
capitals
Varesi
died
daughter's
Robbia,
petted,
tenderness
described
heroine
her
Varesi,
of
in
play
of
Chicago
was
"Enter
whimsical,
and
and
two
prima
lady
stormy
make
as
up
comedy
the
the
authorship
the
for
the
of
prima
donna,
what
of
own
donna
back.
York.
is
whose
her
ing
lead-
before
months
New
Madame"
tantrums
dismissed
in
produced
of
half-century
just
Miss
with
memory
for
emboldened
popular
Europe
world-famous
"a
it, and
success
of
own
prepare
inspiration
by
had
presented
The
share
furnished
the
The
that
to
which
her
confess
to
liked
Theater,
immediate,
was
his
on
Pemberton
heroine.
own
was
him
Garrick
acknowledge
to
r61e
Mr.
the
at
comedy
time
who
play,
signaling
was
her
Conti."
the
at
producer
Varesi's
August
In
managers
ex-newspaperman,
Miss
her
fearing
"Giulia
Theater
that
revising
certain
herself
signed
Jest"
Theater
however,
time,
becoming
read
He
accoxHit.
"The
finished
prejudice
an
of
some
Byrne,
Plymouth
the
Pemberton,
thought
Dolly
the
had
she
play,
manager
Plymouth
might
co-author
as
name
her
At
Madame."
"Enter
in
playing
was
the
at
collaborator,
her
Byrne
Dolly
and
Varesi
Gilda
while
was
with
Varesi
Gilda
By
Acts
Three
in
Comedy
Lisa
a
Delia
spoiled,
alternating
is most
easily
temperament."
"ENTER
Some
had
twenty
married
MADAME"
years
Gerald
Irish
young
But
shins
and
tired
mantic
ro-
of
trailing
world, jumping
and back
again,
long for those
the
hall
concert
she
and
was,
early forties, to
symbolized
by
carpet
comforts
creature
to
she
grown
about
mate
house
his
of whom
Gerald,
increasingly famous
his
the
American
fond.
99
slippers,
the
hearthside, and has reached
and
decision
that his only hope for freedom
happiness
his temperamental
Lisa.
His
lies in a separation from
decision has been helped somewhat
by his meeting with
his
who
shares
Flora
attractive
Preston, an
widow,
for
enthusiasm
intention
to
quiet
home
marry
when
he
Gerald's bachelor
in
later
are
Gerald
of
son
situation
the
Gerald
she
that
got
Lisa
to
Flora
fuss
inet
where
they
I'd
"
is
I feel I must
she
well
was
That's
expensive
most
she
dear,
I told
if she
taken
of the
one
tell you.
me
financially,that
see
my
divorce
to
(John)
he
before
Now,
her
ask
to
difSculty.
face; Lisa
But,
things
suffer
wouldn't
go without
There's
the
some
are
I wrote
When
have
They
Boston,
in
apartment
{to Flora).
there
gets here
is free.
him.
to
"
it is his
whom
meet
to
life and
let
care
things
her
me
of.
we've
woman.
of
heaps
make
must
money.
Gerald
has
never
up
the
cent
put
She
away.
You
"
popular
she
as
Gerald
is doesn't
all
Then
salaries
mean
read
you
"
No,
these
in the
some
to
does
she
what
knows
Flora
bills.
God
"
calls
a year.
tell me
even
make
of
stories
papers
of the
are
it!
with
on
to
me
prima
enough
She
make
doima
to
artists'
pay
as
her
fabulous
lies ?
figures
are
real
enough.
THE
loo
Lisa
is
but
of
one
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
best-paid prima
the
she's
Oriental,
Europe,
in
donnas
"
of
taste
the
an
of
use
I wonder.
Flora, whether
explain her.
you
married
life
has
been.
have
conception of what
my
any
ever
the world, to be forTo
be bustled
continuously about
the
to
digestive apparatus
readjusting one's
different
nations, to spend
atrocious
cooking of a dozen
in the
one's
foyers of hotels and amid
waking hours
of the back-stage regions of opera
the maddening
babel
home
one's
to use
houses;
only as a coaling station, or
from
the
free
then
be
to
not
dry-dock, and
even
of the
mi-mi-mi's
prima
trillings and
footings and
trying
to
donna
and
and
her
at
are
chorus.
be
to
Delia
musical
atmosphere,
once
In
fact,
referred
by
to
and
Robbia
newspaper
Club.
Such
has
seemed
detestable,
acknowledgment
was
"
agents,
of the
husband
nominated
of the
been
life.
Divorce
my
crude
and
to
me,
donna,
Gerald
York
New
Husband's
has
sort
defeat, and
Greek
always
of public
yet I know,
it's not
I
thing
and
Mr.
as
paper
her
about
prima
President
not
but, Lord,
Flora
Yes,
wasn't
be
hover
by a
Only Her
with
game,
press
London
of failure
you
failure
the
the
a
to
as
wag
Flora, that
be
to
who
entourage
know,
that
is
solitaire.
Gerald
dear.
am
sure
it
fault.
your
to
convince
Gerald
husband
arrives
with
him.
"
of
Do
(to John).
the prima donna,
you
and
want
to
me
carry
to
her
be
the
poodle
"ENTER
all
through
!
enough
John
is
This
capitals of
again !
the
Never
You
"
should
insult
an
MADAME"
Europe?
have
done
I've
of
thought
and
mother,
to
loi
that
puts her in
it
before.
damnable
position.
Gerald
know
the
the
hearth
I want
the
John
want
when
Rot!
change
Gerald
Flora
understand
to
see
hands
tired
woman.
of
the
What's
can't
you
so
use
him
expect
devotion
It's natural
once.
and
mother
say
Flora !
You
I want
slippers toasting
hard
day's work.
you
see,
understand
home.
don't
You
you
my
of
don't
you
cock.
can
in after
mind.
all at
half
I want
are
why
"
Never
"
How
come
You
There
"
it.
I want
ministering
"
off at
man?
grown
fireside.
own
go
you
about
anything
feelingsof a
my
by
There
"
to
to
his
mother.
Gerald
Nothing
"
around
he
Europe
of the
was
sort.
after
her
He's
scarcely
and
youngster
in
search
seen
used
of
to
liberal
education.
John
square
She's
"
and
I'll
see
she
gets
deal.
Gerald
(shouting).
"
anything
Flora
if we'll
mother,
my
Who
wants
to
give
her
else?
"
That's
just keep
right
"
everjrthing will
come
right
calm.
been
THE
102
mirers
the
of
the
cablegram
heart
with
filled
are
hurried
fact
that
ship
finally
rocked."
Lisa."
roses.
the
glance at
Mongolia
the
that
and
bees,"
angry
tall
a
that
Madame
reasonably concludes
His
the
suspicions are
firmed
conhigh seas.
of another
moment
next
by the arrival
Steamer
"Arriving.
Mongolia.
reading:
and
is peace
arms
blessing for all. My
upon
my
"on
1920-1921
Gerald
which
is then
of
mob
found
she
peace
From
In
"like
being
OF
PLAYS
BEST
is
reveals
the
paper
and
there
is great
morning
already in
direct
to
there
should
be
her.
Gerald
preparations to receive
Japanese valet to pack hi" things and take
orders
his
excitement.
Gerald's
doubtless
will
Lisa
and
apartment,
come
naturally
some
and
club
to
had
she
get
better
flowers.
some
along
run
to
the
thinks
Flora
and
them
perhaps
again when
in
drop
the
rearrange
with
Madame's
and
favorite
and
vases,
suit Madame,
to
room
to
all
the
basket.
waste-paper
Madame's
chef, Madame's
each
Madame's
voltmiinous
sight
of
his
with
A
arms.
gazes
Lisa
man!
into
"
them
For
in
dragging
And
luggage.
She
emotion,
then
long embrace,
part
some
with
then,
cannot
wordlessly
then
Madame's
flies into
from
leaning
the
she
move,
she
of
catches
immediately
she
moment
and
secretary,
Madame.
enter
John.
trembles
of
pillows, scarves,
pictures
Gerald's
smoking things into
She
is followed
later
by
sofa
throw
physician,
it
redecorate
to
him
she
his face.
Johnnie!
Ah,
generations
wind
drops,
how
rush
the
great
by like
at sunset
little
My
Johnnie
earth
mighty
has
sigh
must
wind
become
and
as
"op,
as
the
the
"ENTER
103
it's great
(enthusiastically).Gee!
mother.
You
off
always knock
us
come,
look ripping! Ripping!
John
you
You
his
and
fianc6e
Gerald.
Lisa
holds
then
him
the
by John,
who
her
hand.
He
her
first
time
glares
takes
"
calls
her
son
attention
to
and
rushes
his
father.
at
it and
The
feet.
our
effusiveness
John
for
sees
out
Gerald
characteristic
and
followed
him,
She
with
greets
have
to
"
She
to
MADAME"
kisses
Great
it.
when
Day
come.
you
Lisa
Is
"
I have
it,my
Gerald?
Then
I must
rejoice that
come
far !
husband's
either
on
and
men
long?
so
become
man!
Gerald
I couldn't
take
Don't
"
very
I'm
well
keep
dear.
his six feet to heart, my
till you
in short
him
trousers
but
quite
young
"
For
help of her
subject
what-
excited
sort
enlighten
servants,
she
of
woman
her.
Mrs.
She
Preston
soon,
regains
with
of
control
her
husband
can't
quite
with
is
of
But
is unstrung.
ready to discuss
their
separation.
and
nerves
Lisa
moment
is.
Gerald
the
her
the
grasp
seeks
to
Gerald
thing
the
like
curtain
with
and
again,
expected
be
couldn't
I don't
Lisa
and
Ah,
"
how
now
life
and
fun
the
was
longer
no
you
come
keep
to
pace
of
it !
do
you
your
real
wasn't
awful
an
the
to
eager
that
"
it's
but
"
see
It is October
real
be
to
more
of
theater
it
that
sense
of it
charm
the
Frankly
up.
the
been
intervals
At
the
left
life with
It has
regretfully, always
always
presence
difScult
my
see,
snatchy.
playgoer.
and
down
came
it, and
of
it's
"
You
letter.
experience
well
lady,
colorful, but
been
has
you
in
explain
to
this
Lisa,
"
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PLAYS
BEST
THE
104
to
care
the
to
go
the
landscape glows,
the
is still warm,
the
chilly and
evenings are
sun
like to sit by the fire,en Jamille, in your
slippers.
you
time
had
Gerald
I haven't
to change.
Lord!
will sit opposite in
And
Lisa
the lady of the dove
and
she will completely fill
that big fat chair, which
she will
God!
(Rises.)
My
doesn't
that
Gerald
Now,
appeal to you, does it?
!!!
Oh
Lisa
(with fervor)
no
Gerald
Well, there you
see
play.
in your
but
"
"
"
"
"
"
Lisa
But
has
she
ocean
and
"
maie.
to
the
across
old"
free
altogether downhearted.
confession
for her
too
is not
is
There
"someone
"
will marry
Then
moment.
him.
he
She, too,
waiting
someone
not
Now
poet.
great
probably
for
too
not
young,
she is to be
that
is dumbfounded
"Gerald
breaks
into
of
roar
laughter."
Gerald
off I
I don't
Lisa
the
"
only
romance,
What
leave
"
you
have
me
believe
Oh,
one
poet,
do
you
who
sigh
I to
do
all alone.
not
has
for
believe, eh?
yearnings!
quiet,
with
Lisa,
come
of it.
word
Oh,
spring poet!
for
these
You,
then,
are
tired
You
peace,
things?
for
old
For
are
of
slippers!
years
you
"ENTER
Gerald
Lisa
I leave
"
"
I starve
it ; you
Gerald
take
Don't
Do
this
expect
you
Gerald
All
"
this melodrama
you
to
and
what
You
wise
moons,
me
thing
any-
versifying
him?
support
nothing
been
must
be
to
way.
and
master
eternity,
as
you,
free.
nothing
you,
is my
Love
young
with
headstrong
own
begged
be
me
You
romance,
I've
years
let
to
Robbia.
the
as
to
For
me?
yotir
as
fool
money
or
I've
but
am
there's
answer
Delia
am
slave.
my
to
nothing
Some
alone!
dying
you
young.
it and
it?
sudden
alone!
be
"
do
back
did
mattered,
Lisa
of
come
must
of
mad.
get the
to
me
I find
Now
slippers.
If
fool, Lisa.
be
you
always
old
must
is
who
poetry.
the
be
you
will
Where
Robbia
for
have
can
"
boy!
Delia
romance,
105
alone?
you
Lisa
am
for
in
MADAME"
old
the
as
stars.
You've
"
done
Oh,
cost.
And
what
was
We
mustn't
You
know
God
help
here.
your
You're
We
seen.
yielded
we
me!
"
meet
might
to
can't
counted
never
mine
you
spoil
the
stand
and
Too
effects.
"
make-up,
much
too
much
dare
you
speak
your
boat.
scenery.
now
even
and
to her
much
trouble
see
Look,
bah!
of poets, of
old, Lisa, old, I tell you, old !
How
growing
of
glory.
the
quietly by
yourself. A poet
{Holds the mirror
something.
There's
too
growing old, Lisa!
fool
the
in
"
at
whims
your
and
fame
John's and
"
couldn't
we
and
fill of
your
part
now
how
make
a
you
I'll show
you
You're
had
our
be
pleased
you
you've
Even
game?
"
what
face.)
rouge
to
romance.
gain
Lisa
I
so
old, Gerald,
very
(Impulsively
"
Lisa!
arms).
his
bad
it's not
half
all you
want.
Lisa
and
takes
her
love
you,
and
I dare
that's
say
that
I'm
not
isn't
the
ideal mistress
most
to
either.
you,
Lisa, it
you've been
Why,
exquisite,
most
man
had.
ever
else would
What
"
of what
idea
faintest
it
call it?
you
be
to
means
Have
you
wife?
Gerald!
"
Gerald
stopped
think
to
Why,
me?
to
with
lived
You've
"
wife
good
it's
tell you,
Gerald
been
old
Gerald.
"
Lisa
her
to
runs
Oh,
kiss
to
grateful to you.
magnificent, the
the
too
love,
to
you
you?
Gerald
into
for
old
too
tears). Am
in
"
love
to
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
io6
dear
my
if I hadn't
that
fool
well-brought-up young
married
have
you?
It
but
me,
that
you
ever
wouldn't
have
was,
have
need
made
never
the
least
difference.
Lisa
Gerald!
"
This
is too
much.
few
hurried
...
Gerald
Just
"
words
before
justice
The
first thing
joke of it.
did was
to lose your
marriage certificate, the next
you
look
life
to lose
at
ring! And
thing was
our
yovu! the whole
God
joke there is.
thing is the damnedest
the
Lisa
Gerald, I'U never
forgive you
longest
day I Uve.
Very well, then divorce, divorce ! You shall
of
the
And
peace.
the
"
"
have
it!
thi-ow
it in yoiu'
Wildly,
called, but
alone.
flowers
the
"A
head
from
I had
dismisses
Lisa
refuses
that
now
servants
Mrs.
her.
see
Suddenly
Preston
has
sweeps
and
John
She
of
paroxysm
foot."
Mrs.
him.
to
tremendous
offerings,she
The
it here
might
Preston
has
sneering face!
she
to
that
floral
floor.
I wish
Oh,
wants
rage
catching
provided
them
rush
her
sight of
the
her
crash
in, but
be
shakes
as
with
to
they
part of
to
the
cannot
"ENTER
"He
quiet her.
hysterically. "I
have
I done
grows
dear,"
This
eyes
as
which
gown,
falls
time
catches
"is
acts
the
divorce.
her nap."
servants
has
is
It
the
official doctiment
Bice
The
insists.
first
the
get
and
Bice
has
is
been
is.more
doctor
The
assembled
crying. Word
granted; the
the
news
of
is taking
the
room
second
decree
Madame
of her
decree
first
first and
unhappy.
are
to
door
the
the
talking in whispers.
that
come
brightens
becoming tea-
II
afternoon
early
of defiance
between
it takes
Outside
are
checkmate!
not
most
sight
has brought her.
elapses
time
but
"
What
then, as she
"Johnnie
son.
of her
maid
that
her
Hght
new
Act
The
loved.
And
to
cries,
defeat!"
not
her
be
this?"
is check
she
heart,"
to
turns
"this
says,
she
all
she
107
my
wanted
deserve
quiet,
she
broken
only
is war,
but
the curtain
As
her
has
to
more
MADAME"
servants
Madame,
will be
He
hopeful.
pull Madame
through the crisis. Archimede,
all Madame's
the chef, will do his part; he will cook
she
favorite
troubles.
dishes, that
forget her
may
able
to
They
have
to
her.
at
the
better
Soon
of the
they
shock
get her
can
break
to
son
He, too, is
arrives.
John
thought
if
Madame's
for
sent
to
off to
Europe
with
him.
is the
law
Let
"
Signer Fitzgerald
months;
not
until
Madame
and
her
divorced.
libertine
old
the
decree
husband
are
soon
want
not
divorced
sible,
pos-
agree
Anyway,
marry
is made
as
to many-
does
wait."
cannot
up
It will be
as
Mrs.
news
little cut
his mother.
the
for
three
absolute.
and
it
yet
So
not
THE
io8
"From
BEST
the
inner
from
and
c'e.
Miss
of
Lisa
out
No
matter
like
I
is, what
of
that.
NeVer!
cannot
bear
is!
is, what
(Quickly handing
"
She
fresh
ligee,
negstands
worried
Cosa,
are
going?
you
what
has happened
where
up,
know
you
What
Smith
decree
is
gente!
quanta
look
not
wait!
never
door
Guarda
like that.
look
out,
"
wears
all dressed
must
you
on
Oh, Johnnie
Johnnie, don't
tura,
colora-
The
is loosely knotted.
crowd
the
assembled
hair
(brightly).
"
Smith
She
sleep.
her
in
enters
smiling brightly
people."
Lisa
of
good
cascade
is awake.
Madame
Madame
and
1920-1921
comes
room
trills,runs.
opened
OF
PLAYS
Miss
wait,
to
Quick!
paper).
The
first
divorce.
takes
divorce
the
and
paper
looks
it
at
long
time.
The
The
crew
doctor
edges
of ammonia
position
Lisa
to
with
All worried
dependents
quietly
and
takes
catch
her
about
tutti, thank
if
There,
you.
open
health.
with
my
They
murmurs;
left alone
bottle
Da
bravi
"
and
the
his
damni
that's
It
is not
of
wine,
via
gets into
in
!
be
un
bacio.
so
blessed.
(Kisses
buon'amica
all over,
oh
Archimede,
coraggio!
cari
"
need
we
door!
friends!
My
to
enough,
tense.
the
am
vecchio
spirits
all look
dears
I
of
Bice
break
lucky
get ready.
glass
hand;
she drops; they
How
me.
strength, thought.
go
toward
it into
amica!
Bice, Vecchia
qua
Dio
ti benedica,
her.)
"
stiffen
"
(Then
of
no!
cahn,
Please
all drink
will
with
be
my
alone
son.
all exit
the
with
quietly,rather
dazed
can
her
think
sad
few
of.
mood.
broken
Lisa,
"ENTER
Lisa
He
"
sofa.)
John
did
mother.
woman,
such
No
"
They
between
spaces
the
say
You
do
is
what
amazing
an
of
it is
of them;
great
are
the
expected
expected
think
are
what's
there
stars.
(Sits on
door.
in the
never
does
one
109
of sofa).
arm
You
puzzle.
break
not
(sittingon
"
you.
Lisa
MADAME"
they
pitch-black
between
are
the
"
Lisa
"
John
Mother
"
Would
dear,
do
pitch.
very
love
you
father?
my
you
"
mi sarai rapita,
delizia e vita non
braccia, amore,
fin ch io, ti string '1 cor."
phrase,
a
(Rises) What
What
a
God, what
phrase! Do you
a
phrase!
my
the soul
who
cold blocks
to the opera,
realize,you
go
mie
that
incense
smoke
John
Why,
"
John
sing
him
Lisa
We
"
Oh, the
music
he
are
isn't
almost
romance!
I think
believe
you
short
neck, and
it do
father
his eyes
?
to
have
you
there?
mer.
always together in the sumI always sing it all into my
afterwards.
John
"
Lisa
the
what
when
do
the
sing that
good can
But
"
to
with
are
like
pours
hearts?
our
father?
loving
blockhead,
little tenor
fat
that
censers
is that
you
melody
The
you?
the
from
Yes, but
"
Lisa
of the
before
bum
we
"
most
throat
"
But
don't
you
(testily).No,
beautiful
why
do
way!
you
see
.
I don't
All
suppose
see.
my
the
Why,
heart
birds
I love
in my
throbs
sing?
him
"
for
to
Ijric,the
John
mind
your
could
I
offer?
help
you.
would
It
take
singing help
Wouldn't
things.
off
singer.
wish
Weissman's
accept
you
No,
"
coloratura
dear,
Mother
"
Can't
is the
it is the
soprano
canary
thousand
the
in music
express
for
moon?
the
to
sorrows
dramatic
it is the
1920-1921
OF
nightingale
the
living,perhaps:
night whistles her
necessity
PLAYS
BEST
THE
no
to
you
forget?
Lisa
Oh
"
dear,
John
no,
life
with
vibrates
music
Gerald
is
in
the
closely woven
that
if they
with
to
pluck my
were
through
song
fall in little heaps of ravelings
Gerald
out, the rest would
all about.
bear
to sing.
not
Oh, I could
What
to do, mother?
John
are
we
My
memory.
so
"
Lisa
(restlessly). Yes.
"
Wh^t
are
thought
I've
like
not
what
such
calm
with
off
Gerald.
to
will
she
say
will
that
her
wear
Then
.
for my
came
Won't
you
costume.
et
"
"
for
Gerald
"
he's
he'd
"
"
"
and
have
me
I must
John
leaves
Never
mind
be
your
will
be
trimmed
"Standing
them.
apologize
must
asleep, and
is scarcely
careful
he
say
with
hands
velvet
comes,
This
shotdd
hopes
Gerald
been
voici
they discuss
shake
black
sit down?
"
divorcee.
but
act
Lisa
she
"
things.
back,
don't
"
in which
She
and
chinchilla.
Lisa
him
command
can
dignified way
and
and
"
of many
little bubbles
my
come
Lisa
as
quite properly,
happy
win
do?
to
we
do?
farewells
him,
pricks
he
are
thought
to
ways
off, Lisa,
proper
her
I have
many
men,
I to
am
With
the
of
other
"Come
say,
do?
to
we
What
then
the
John
costume
now.
clothes.
broke
in
'ENTER
you
on
awful
"
have
.
I think
of
been
didn't
it
want
said.
to
to
you
I don't
because
was
III
wanting
day. I
the things
me.
MADAME"
see
go
since
you
ing
remember-
away
know
what
you
tried
fool
of
that
came
over
make
to
fool
me.
Lisa
I tried
"
Gerald
try
did,
You
"
make
to
you !
Lisa
know,
you
did
you
"
Lisa
The
"
other
lady
tries to
never
make
fool of
wit isn't
always
you?
Gerald
Lisa
Oh, I don't
"
Gerald
Lisa
your
and
hasn't
the
woman's
want
wit.
know
you
I must
could
not
so
husband
my
respect from
was
it.
help
are
you
have
of.
speak
to
if you
as
age,
Gerald,
"
more
not
know,
It's you
"
beastly about
any
she
no,
surface.
the
on
dear
Oh,
"
who
men
are
husband.
my
Gerald
Good
"
I don't
Heavens!
know
what
I'm
age!
Archimede
breaks
fine dinner
with
he
is
in upon
preparing
sweetbreads,
capon,
truffles, mushrooms,
'of
wine
Tokay
recollection
of
Lisa
farewell
nice
has
the
an
dinner!
lady
he
will
jolly.
"
be
Gerald
Gerald
dinners
with
cold
"
meat
and
quite
they used
inspiration: they
marry;
there;
once
is enthused
John
come
and
more
by
the
stuffed
goose
and
rosemary;
cream;
is
shall
reports of the
roast
sausage
macaroons
Gerald
is to
them
at
overcome
to
and
the
denly
Sud-
have.
will have
"
dash
grand
bring
Aline, his
the
heart,
sweet-
everything will be
suggestion. "By
BEST
THE
112
Lisa,
Jove,
bet
loudly yells
table
the
has
Bice
place
be
to
of
hear.
the
Even
of
something
the
an
the
her,
he
Gerald
as
preparation.
of
have
each
warbles
her
all the
so
hotel
Aline, catches
"Of
"but
comments,
The
tell
to
Lisa
plans.
adjoining bedroom
John, retiiming with
spirit of the occasion.
it's unconventional?"
and
feast.
servants
new
him,
answers
dress
uproar
The
the
she
to
"You
exclaims.
he
and
Preston
set.
excitedly
happiness from
beat!"
come
is in
1920-1921
OF
beat!"
to
Mrs.
other
may
be
can't
to
invite
to
goes
Soon
be
can't
you
life I
your
PLAYS
course
it's sporting
and
dignified."
With
everything
Preston
arrive.
and
Lisa
shake
Flora
Lisa
in
It
"
Just
"
the
family
Gerald
first time
they
pause
Lisa
It
was
Lisa
now,
say
Well, at any
We
strangers.
{Enter
front
her
of
the
rate
Doctor
and
have
Miss
so
his
I feel
sure
much
so
come.
me.
don't
belong
know
yet
another,
one
an
to
You
supper.
what
"
ask
to
you
know.
you
"
be
not
Mrs.
seen
of you
good
so
of
charming
little family
was
I couldn't
"
has
in
meet
relation
to
to be
just what
we
are
something, surely. My
English is
in-law, is it not?
(Gerald
stamps
Flora
and
hands."
Delighted
"
readiness
is the
It
"After
successor.
table
in
but
Wivesshaky.
foot angrily.)
idea
"
that
in
shotild
we
common
now.
Smith)
dear
My
family,
Mrs.
Preston.
My doctor, my
secretary, of course
you
know
the children.
Mrs.
sit
head
at the
Preston, you
of the
table.
Gerald, you
next
to
Mrs.
Preston, of
Aline
course.
Smith
there, Miss
here.
the
John on
other
is not
in
cakn
side
a
supper.)
Mrs.
Preston;
well-balanced
storm,
and
of
but
sunny
perhaps
seas.
and
dinner
it will
(Bice
Dottore
near
party, it would
sail
and
me.
never
successfully
Archimede
in
serve
It
do
these
the
"ENTER
It is
grand
effect
on
they
used
and
The
the
merits
The
joins in.
point concerning
his
back.
Listening
and
table
"almost
walks
Preston
in
sighs
Gerald
he
as
fury."
her
met.
to
prove
Archimede
gets
Gerald
his seat
Standing by
in
releases
The
to
returns
his
at
side
her
arms
and
as
Flora
her
dispute ended,
the
table.
the
Gerald
the
poses
pro-
of the
Milan
Gerald
The
it
"
together in
Cairo, Petrograd, Buenos
drank
not
was
was
health
the
globe.
Yes, it
"
bad
little life.
It is Madame's
rings.
phone
chance
have
We
"
comer
Ayres,
health, Doctor.
Your
"
Doctor
every
her
have
piano
leaves
Lisa.
to
dispute
It carries
he
past.
toast.
On
agent.
the
will accept an
offer for a concert
tour
Will she
America
he has reserved
passage.
that
in South
For
she
In
She
next
day.
the
Life, that
hesitates
mind.
Ayres
uproar.
Lisa
moment
her
up
Buenos
"To
t^iemusic,
to
around
gasps
doctor
makes
aria.
involuntarily he takes
her; just as abruptly he
kisses
go ?
certain
they
the
to
is reminiscent.
duet
violent
artists
goes
much-
is all of the
in
various
doctor
The
Madame's
was
engage
Gerald
his flute.
of all the
conversation
the
stimulating
jollytimes
most
him
he
doctor
of
113
it has
when
husband.
the
to
have
to
Archimede
as
and
supper,
It reminds
Gerald.
traveled
MADAME"
midst
it
Lisa
and
Chance
of
"Le
go.
Again
of
outruns
To
will
"
Race!"
the
morituri
then
She
there
suddenly
will
is
proposes
Love
and
To
which
salutamus."
she
sail for
family
a
a
toast:
Death!
Gerald
After
Chorus,"
sing the "Anvil
is at
as
they did in the old days. Again the doctor
clears
his flute. Bice
the piano, Archimede
has taken
which
her
he
proposes
throat
in
that
they
all
preparation.
There
are
more
toasts,
Gerald
PLAYS
BEST
THE
114
again proposing
memories
drink:
anticipations keen!"
all sing together, all except
"They
bottles
the
plates and
glasses and
on
the
anvils.
old
The
old
the
song,
for
Gerald
a
and
their
remembers
talk
real
with
business
Lisa
is
and
come
sure
it would
it.
How
half
wise.
them
(going
to
It's
Delia
take
you
Lisa
to
Robbia
Flora
is
home
it
had
not
about
Flora
And
home
Lisa
isn't
offer her
such
"
has
take
hand).
downstairs!
only
up
that
Aline,
everj^hing.
and
too
it breaks
hoiu", say?
an
is
and
he
Perhaps
me
He
about
Couldn't
It
do.
to
John
of
sadden
memories,
that.
about
"
overhears
absurd!
Madame
than
For
Let
"
"
more
day
be
Flora
Flora
is much
arrangements,
back?
But
there
Lisa
sailing next
Gerald
that
noise
the
"
late
its
Flora, knocking
it."
sees
join. Gerald
Lisa; she cannot
and
at gaiety
this last attempt
afifecting,
remembers
the
suddenly
Everyone
party.
grows
its
May
charming,
Life!
"To
actualities
its
gentle,
be
1920-1921
OF
Good
unusual
an
Qh
no.
night,
evening!
"
"
Flora
to
be
so
much
give
Oh
"
like that.
money
them
Lisa
dear
me,
If you
were
to
you
something
"You
see
but
yes,
I suppose
not,
on
different
people
the
to
you
wouldn't
You
stage.
look
at,
have
pay
must
dare
say.
To
know,
puzzling!
myself
I seem
quite simple.
Flora
it comes
from
Perhaps
throwing yourself
into every
throw
are
part you
doing. You
yourself
of joint, as
it were,
out
and
end
by not knowing how
at all.
to behave
However, I am
delighted to have met
it's very
"
you.
understand
Gerald
so
much
better
now.
"ENTER
glad
am
have
to
domestic
had
this
atmosphere.
Delia Robbia,
Madame
of
that.
oh
the
But
"
Two
for many
me?
years.
Now
Now
business
becomingly
Lisa
lightly
touch
inclined
Lisa
be
to
is sorry
have
given
words
we
get together
enough
I don't
Gerald
dared
in
leaves
they
both
are
to
"
she
of
he
had
that
she
what
"
him.
long enough;
leave
to
to
says
Arabs
the
selfish."
But
them."
said
had
the
her
to
been
only
him.
day
that
you
drive
me
is
that
at
all
truth
I can't
there
is
I'd
smash
always
just
them.
to
! I know.
down
Also
"irritatingand
wanting
trouble
No
"
and
up
mean.
The
truth
kissing
little embarrassed,
comfort,"
back
I said
the
"
wrong
mind
of
Lisa, I would
Oh,
out
Lisa
been
John.
affairs.
They
been
tents
for
you
things
the
only
kiss and
them
see
own
you
the
in
first
"
you
future
has
she
quite forget
Gerald
would
you
apologetic.
blame
she' can't
had
again and,
their
that
lived
I don't
to
the
upon
never
"You've
time
man,
been
that
pleasant.
un-
very
walking nervously
over
go
over
it's
it's over,
is back
Gerald
and
Gad
make
most
Instead
righting something
who
original,
very
you
squabbling
dreadful
oh,
"
of
say
behaved
women
question
"I
so
are
I dare
vivid
yoior
well.
Really amazingly
much!
(meekly). Oh, thank
so
you
The
been
situation
might have
"
Flora
he
into
glimpse
You
have
you
115
whole.
Lisa
know
MADAME"
"
imagine
what
any
made
man
me
.
I remember
now.
It
was
that
damned
poet
going
were
you
to
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
ii6
of him,
become
What's
marry.
Lisa?
.
Lisa
is
There
"
Gerald
No,
"
I suppose
no,
has
never
wish
else you
anything
Is there
anyone.
There
one.
no
to
talk
He
phone
Gerald
"
in
this
Haven't
tricks;
no
you
Lisa.
now,
go
an3rthing
you
Lisa
must
mood;
perhaps
poetry;
no
can.
Gerald
little
night!
Lisa.
to
returns
you
about?
not.
been
florid
no
glad
are
scarcely
to
get
know
speeches;
rid
of
me.
say?
to
No.
"
"
heart.
Lisa
Ah
"
things
to
yet they
Lisa
as
what
was
that
Oh
"
wayward
I
I know
"
you,
are
wished.
blame
"
to
say
such
"
Yet
you
things
be.
and
to
was
win
I am,
that
have
made
head
I
try?
you
on
Gerald's
don't
blame
yourself.
as
punish
me
for
As
desires.
my
taught young
An
applause.
is all you
wished
of me
what
you
And
now
you
breast, sobbing.)
you.
myself.
Lisa
such
say
you
it
changeable
as
didn't
Darling,
said
to
me
could
(Lays her
me.
have
is what
why
right
no
please
to
You
Oh,
Gerald
dare
true.
wished
you
be.
I have
thoughts,
my
my
to
how
you,
You
no.
duty was
interpreter, that
me
dare
me.
Gerald
to
! How
being just
me!
blame
"ENTER
Gerald
How
"
MADAME"
I to
was
117
know!
blundering
am
ass.
the
Again
Gerald's
phone
answer
he
promises that
Lisa
Poor
"
Gerald
Lisa
Oh
"
because
age
hope
of
just about
am
are
because
us,
upon
if
of the world
But
going
to
join
I'll show
Satan,
The
old
can
Say
Lisa
{her
"
I don't
Gerald;
Gerald
Lisa
almost
you
is the
That
imposing
love
you
old!
here,
you
imp
of
am.
around
What
me
and
won
to
are
front of piano).
Lisa, listen
Oh,
we
to
What
do ?
do?
we
late!
of the
"
me
has
Come
am
how
world
phalanx
"
Gerald
insists upon
the
Lisa
not
are
the
are
respectable. We
The
irreconcilthey only knew.
great
you
I, Gerald;
it is
hell
The
"
Flora.
imagination, illusion;
world
more
the
than
and
you
they
as
the
once
now
older
two
young,
people
Yet
is !
she
still have
we
before.
peevish.
Again he
leave.
to
or
year
we
no,
than
old
how
still
is
Flora
curt
youth.
Gerald
to
is
still see
we
ables.
are
more
Because
young!
secret
is
Flora,
I
"
rings.
"
too
know,
I can't
his
neck).
help
Ah,
seem
to
too
Gerald,
you.
Say
"
around
arms
it isn't too
late!
hear
the
sands
rushing out;
it is
late.
it.
turns
angrily toward
phone rings. Gerald
door
the
leaves
and
ajar.
Lisa slips into the bedroom
Gerald
The
grabs his hat in a
phone rings like mad.
looks at the bedroom
door, has an idea,
panic. Then
his mind,
looks at the phone, hesitates, finallymakes
up
with an angry
his hat, and
down
throws
gesture sweeps
"The
the
the
bedroom
"Enter
Bice
into
carafe
and
from
of water
on
another
puts
glass
door,
bedroom
back
with
curtaia
nice
door
bedroom
breakfast
laid
with
in
blossoms
front
in
Bice
undertone.
of
lace
blossoms
the
table
is
all
in
the
about
satin
prepared
Bice
room.
and
has
in
bows
with
her
"
bows,
her
with
thing,
every-
happy
cap,
sprigs
Archimede
corsage.
is
"
everybody
angry.
What
is
of
Miss
except
quite
truth
morning
with orange
large white bow
his breast."
Bice
on
sings cheerily as she
table for breakfast.
is happy
Everybody
freshly
sets
the
ornamented
starched
is
fireplace. It is carefully
low
of orange
bouquet
A
table.
profusion of
"
white
blossoms
orange
the
on
down."
small
the
of
has
apron
gently
tiptoeing about
arranging
smiles, talking in a
happy
are
wreathed
fuss, she
"It
is scattered
Archimede
white
closed.
of
middle
the
without
III
cloth
lace
flowers
white
and
in
hat, looks
comes
morning.
frosty, sunny
for
is
small
Gerald's
knocks
tray and
Act
The
sees
quietly and
the
as
softly
goes
glass and
She
the
on
He
door.
the
tray.
floor.
the
to
shuts
then
door,
bedroom
at
piano
the
from
phone
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
ii8
is
Something
it?
Where
what
has
the
Smith,
is
being
Madame?
bursts
happened
is
She
secretary.
kept
from
Then
the
her.
awful
her, and
upon
she
is scandalized.
Miss
Delia
thing
Smith
"
Robbia
I've
stood
first and
happened
never
good
last, but
before
"
"
this
deal
well
from
!
is too
Madame
This
sort
much.
of
My
word!
Bice
Is it not
"
What
her
is
husband?
it
that
makes
you
so
shocked?
"ENTER
Miss
Smith
MADAME"
Her
"
husband
not
.he's,
.
any
is he?
more,
119
If he
her husband
is,he's committing
bigamy
or
'Tisn't
something.
Ah,
very
Do
you
"
Smith
Miss
know
what's
Doctor
"
Doctor, what
happened?
Well, I can
guess.
blossoms?
orange
Smith
your
"
if you
Madame!
Charming
morality will
careful.
not
are
Let
Smith
Miss
Doctor
shall
"
us
run
What
"
Leave
"
Do
idea,
suffer
they
about
that
to
I not
Bice.
Smith
Doctor
But
"
the
Leave
"
the
Come, Miss
prostration
nervous
wonderful
will
catch
woman,
us
.
South
America?
Madame.
.
Miss
smell
...
She's
or
do?
we
boat
leaves
everything
at
one!
Madame.
to
She's
great general!
Bice
Quick!
"
Gerald
is the
clothes
and
with
happy
into
the
first
to
come.
He
enter.
good morning.
which
song,
quick! they
he greets the
He
Lisa,
amuses
is still in
she
as
tries
even
follows
evening
servants
break
to
into
him
room.
Lisa
Gerald
drag
out
Bice
My
"
blessed!
to
Doesn't
she. Bice?
hippo.
Signora is happy at last ! The saints
be
Bice
"
"
of
sits
How
"
America,
at
opposite Gerald.)
like
settling
you
table
will
down
in
Bice?
Eh, what
is?
{pours coffee,which
Yes,
Bice,
From
today,
Gerald
enough
(Lisa
Gerald
musical.
grow
You
look
lovely
you
not?
Why
"
song
Lisa
Gerald!
My
"
no
"
more
you
Ah,
opera.
and
we
me,
well,
not
Bice
I
passes
have
Gerald).
to
decided
firmV!
raise chickens.
quite that,
but
Mrs.
Fitz-
I will
down
Bellmore.
at
Lisa
lazy
pipe, too
Gerald
to
at
you?
move.
And
"
the
Flora
is
the
"Lisa
and
them
first
...
considered
be
to
she
arrive, and
to
Gerald
try
still in
their
get
to
peace!
oh, the
Bice
peace,
Preston
is Flora
There
held
place
our
with
the
house
big garden, the wide
it used
to remind
me
that is always smoking;
smoking a
fat lady squatting in a meadow,
very
country-
The
"
chimney
of
in the
time
our
remember
You
Bice, don't
Bellmore,
of
spend part
gerald and
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
I20
very
long and
too
angry.
has
panic
the
but
away,
places
is
John.
and
they
are
caught."
Flora
night
Flora
reach
the
me
know
You
"
Flora
Don't
"
four
or
times.
perfectly well.
mean
Finally
the
told
operator
off.
was
It must
"
what
for hours.
you
receiver
Gerald
it three
I answered
"
to
last
telephone
the
answer
Gerald
tried
didn't
You
"
fallen
have
interrupt
off.
Do
think
you
am
simply scandalous.
stands
what
Well?
have
to offer?
(Gerald
excuse
you
I only
wish
in front of her like a naughty child)
my
fool ?
husband
dear
As
behavior
Your
it
will
wife.
You
position,
singer.
Gerald
Flora
And
"
me
thing
on
law
hands
this
lady
with
properly.
of my
lawyers.
is not
who
your
reputation
my
level
you
and
social
opera
common
Preston
or
that
one,
and
with
in the
still
expect
as
Mrs.
remember
I shall
deal
trifle with
Now,
Keep
please
"
such
"
He'd
and
you
cannot
put
been
affairs
my
call upon
and
has
me
alive.
was
They
to
it will
go
agreement
and
don't
worse
about
with
a
you.
ment
settle-
"ENTER
side and
my
they'llmake
that
you've
way.
Do
Gerald
What
do
Now,
"
Mrs.
You
yet.
and
you
"
if
you
this
suppose
woman
is feathered
nest
Lisa
Phew!
"
I'll know
or
not
you
to
What
{recovering. Going
"
dare
she
into
come
I couldn't
but
oiur
your
Lisa
C).
up
house
and
It is
her, "Are
to
Gerald
"
Come
back
her.
I'll pay
back
soon
Lisa
"
the
arms.
There,
piper
We
the
were
the
you
possible.
{absently).
things
"
and
say
them.
rough deal;
now
How
talk
storms
dare
she!
so!
And
must
Yes
have
After
I should
wife.
holds
it's worth
"
first time
for the
her
in
darling, there.
his
in
have
it,just
get married
said
have
to
to
to
know
her.
all,she's been
let's forget her.
mind
have
I'm
handed
you
just
now
said
dear,
arms).
Never
but
{then intensely),
things I could
{amused). Yes,
could
you
{She
wife?"
of all the
Gerald
didn't
if she
{catches her
here.
in my
as
think
as
wait!
you
back.
answer
"
"
why
reason
no!
it
to
woman!
Gerald
Oh
of
care
you'll see
both!
you
take
to
the
yet.
talk
your
have
age,
with
through
with
won't
remarks
your
not
"
slippers. I
stuffy old
your
in
now
I'm
How
I'm
libertine,
"
carpet
Gerald
said
this
provide
can
Preston, confine
through with
You
just wait!
Good-day
out.)
"
you
"
of you
that my
want
and
wealthy
imagine
better
would
please.
{hysterically).Oh,
me,
Flora
Oh,
It's much
woman
were
you
Oh, don't
pay.
heart.
any
121
of you
except to pay her disgracefuldebts and to
her liasons with dukes
and
princes and what not ?
cover
you
home
think
that
you
my
establishment
wants
to
broken
you
it weren't
good
MADAME"
think
as
"
her.
all
glad
a
the
you
pretty
Then
not
John
to
his
way
They
all
want
they
to
were
Robbia
Delia
the
them
More
reporters.
favors
calling
of
the
from
Lisa
will
Gerald
hint
of the
sensational
story
get if
that
demand
But
that!
for
The
the
phone
firmly in
stand
of
He
parents.
the
and
center
midst
the
and
Gerald
stood
ask
of
She
Great!
didn't
Lisa
explanation
idea:
has
""
rings,
an
the
America?
He
rings.
interview.
an
brilliant
isn't.
John
his
from
South
might
phone
they
it.
of
another
to
go
reporters.
Mrs.
police. Again
has
to
happened.
John standing
sort
demanding
some
room
his irresponsible parents.
In
hubbub
of
swarm
doorbell, with
the
forced
been
has
search
They
the
perturbed,
what
divorce
in
go
has
perfect
know
to
given
has
He
shocked.
through
make
of
little
1920-1921
OF
and
comes,
say
Preston
PLAYS
BEST
THE
122
all
is
he
them
can
be
to
bom.
John
God
I didn't
"
but
knows,
you've got
to
of
and
of
will go
you
Yes,
"
promise that
and
the
put
up
with
of
The
of
the
reporters
want,
living
on
go
and
me,
fanuly
right.
anjrthing you
and
you
dignity
are
wicked
parents,
my
think
to
you
get those
be
can't
dignity
Gerald)
will do
we
to
got
Johnnie,
yes,
down
to
you
You
me.
You've
(Goes threateningly
hear?
family, do you
Lisa
to
got
with
up
here.
future,
my
I've
put
if I weren't
as
choose
...
of
"
the
if
Now
aWay
"
anything
all.
at
With
John
another
idea:
America.
the
room
his
on
She
Again
servants
is
as
are
and
Gerald
Gerald
called.
such
first act.
personal
is all enthusiasm.
The
quickly dismantled
in the
up
to
way
Lisa
rushes
belongings
it
was
madly
as
to
has
South
Hurriedly
packing
as
Lisa
starts.
The
quickly
nished
fur-
about
Bice
grabbing
is likely
"ENTER
overlook.
to
Her
couldn't
She
The
doctor
follows
Lisa
in
enters
carrying
procession."
Lisa
Gerald
off
in
wore
Gerald
arms.
loaded
Bice,
Gerald's
Tomamoto,
parrot
We
close
cage,
We
go!
the
the
go!
Bice.
by
run
we
back
the
door
"
Toto!
look
I
things
sing
No,
Lisa,
no,
darling,
here,
I'd
swore
drag
you
"
damned
that
carry
won't!
do
never
want
you
it, I
do
won't
pup.
You're
again.
and
along
me
making
are
you
tell
won't!
you,
to
her
off.
Gerald!
Now
"
all the
to
and
(suddenly).
But,
"
hold
you
"
Gerald
me
and
Now
she
overcoat.
Tamamoto,
Hurry
Gerald,
Lisa
large
suitcase
in
rush
they
coat
dog
luggage,
(happily).
"
going
"
Lisa
do
in
portmanteau.
and
and
small
(triumphantly).
"
Gerald
me
hand
man,
here,
carries
wrapped
with
hat
roses!
of roses!
attar
small
hamper
of
attar
her
and
same
her
without
screen
with
the
She
follows,
eloping
"seizes
Archimede
down
of
123
And
rouge!
think
first act.
MADAME"
Lisa
Gerald
But,
"
mia!
Madonna
"
can't
We
Toto!
leave
Gerald
well, then,
Very
"
you
leave
can
(Sits
me.
sofa.)
on
Lisa
(phone
"
rings).
Oh,
Gerald
"
Gerald
"
not
again!
Gerald
with
"
dog
Bice
"
under
Oh,
give
his
(standing
arm.
in
me
damned
the
Lisa
dog.
follows.)
doorway).
(Curtain)
Exit
Madame.
(Exits
Melodramatic
By
BEFORE
of
in
generous
the
from
write
their
fact
"The
and
praise
it
play.
Mr.
many
prominence
Ibsen
years
dramas.
theatrical
added
of
this
"
that
Green
The
was
brought
ary
18,
192
fiirning
the
at
first
was
to
practically
The
the
Booth
of
the
mountains.
the
mile,
unbroken
background,
is
vast
not
at
masonry,
himself
success
when
the
region
Theater',
and
theater
and'
1920,
Janu-j
slow
in
the
play
being
conran
crowded
"
of
to
gaimt
the
and
almost
mountain
wall
distance
apparent
an
barbaric
in
cotild
York,
all
at
reviewers
Clinging
.
in
"a
confessed
27,
New
performance.
on
student
Walnut
December
was
Booth,
rises
his
the
at
Theater,
the
on
hit.
of
public
every
curtain
treeless
night
at
of
produced
judgment
season
scored
able
he
measure
the
The
1.
the
the
books
frankly
believe
not
"
Goddess
play
the
did
of
"PlaymaJdng"
and
he
gained
several
his
could
years
translator
well-informed
that
glory
London,
of
author
fact
to
first
recently
he
Philadelphia
out
as
added
the
the
and
in
drama
as
is
The
play
The
in
fame
drama.
work
write
He
his
the
ago
subjects
to
the
of
reviewer
prominent
were
critic
for
Archer,
they
reflected
dramatic
little
Goddess,"
it
seeing
extracted
proved
spoke
Green
After
play."
that
good
critics
fellow
Archer's
first
Acts
Foiir
Archer
it, his
William
"William's
in
Play
William
seeing
doubtfully
as
GODDESS"
GREEN
"THE
palace,
crowned
by
124
with
long
arcades
of
about
stretches
and
turrets.
of
"THE
The
GREEN
foreground
two
of
masses
has
temple
GODDESS"
consists
rock.
been
of
In
roughly
small
the
rock
hewn.
125
level space
the
on
Two
between
right
and
thick
cave
rudely-
carved
aspect,
mass
the
on
be
can
dark
left (from
the
seen
of
wing
disastrous
forced
"The
two
pilot and
extricating themselves
down
the
passengers
Lucilla.
in good
athletic
All
cliff.
and
The
of
',
,
rock
are
passengers
from
the wreck
wearing
the
and
their
leather
with
clad
natives
tailor-made
first appearance
wonder
and
natives,
chatter
wear
Their
coats.
.
rudely
the
over
of
act
clambering
the
pUot is Dr. Basil Traheme;
his wife,
are
Major
Antony
Crespin and
is a well-set-up man,
Traheme
vigorous and
sipated-l
distraining. Crespin, somewhat
heavy and
is in khaki.
Lucilla
is a tall, slight,
on
watched
Projecting
The
woman,
three
the
hidden.
undercarriage
rather
green.
fear
rather
eagerly
among
tweed
suit.
aviation
mets
hel-
proceedings
by a group
Mongolian
of dark
themselves.
in
are
and
feature.
A
man
higher
the
stature
"high
attempts
to
and
more
he
when
priest" in barring his passage
the mountain
path leading
proceed down
THE
126
toward
the
distant
advice
that
careful
not
grouped
amount
there
is
PLAYS
BEST
would
it
He
castle.
to
excite
around
them.
be
or
1920-1921
also
resents
better
if
irritate
the
lost between
reason
to
that
the
all
three
is
w6re
people
strange
and
Traheme
believe
Traheme's
there
Evidently
of love
with
OF
great
no
Crespin, and
man's
younger
long
acquaintance
has
we
an
With
the
Traheme
Rukh,
been
has
words
few
learns
called
for
sent
heard
ever
and
of
from
Russian
at
his
command
the
the
is
priest that
country
and
that
the
is its ruler, has
Raja, who
will shortly arrive.
and
None
of them
of Rukh,
though Mrs.
Crespin recalls
in a newspaper
dispatch just before
Abdulabad,
passed
Mr.
the
on
Rukh,
among
the
of
of
miles
their
paragraph
to
in
found
men
that
the
referring
the
of the
these
spurs
murder
the
are
Himalayas."
but
be
wiser
to
to
their
sentence,
further
amazement
tear
of
independent
been
miscreants
little-known
of
has
the
murderous
to
and
small
of death
guilty
that
appears
it would
do,
Sentence
"
northern
likely
that
The
It
of
It is not
fate
three
Haredale.
natives
state
Tuesday.
dreds
hunof
Traheme
out
and
which
of the
the
cludes
con-
bium
he
the
ceeds
pro-
natives.
of the
like the march
approach
Raja "sounds
of the Great
The
natives
all run
Panjandrum.
to the
where
the path debouches
point
the
on
open
space.
They prostrate themselves, some
each
of
the
side
on
"THE
path.
127
the
down
mountain
procession comes
is headed
by a gigantic negro
flourishing
sabers, and gyrating in a barbaric
war
It
naked
two
GODDESS"
wild
way.
GREEN
dance.
Then
and
half
come
cymbals.
dozen
Then
musicians
litter
bearers.
with
toms
tom-
carried
by four
the figure of the
curtains
Tlurough its gauze
be
Raja can
indistinctly seen.
Immediately behind
the litter comes
and
Watkins,
an
English valet, demure
correct,
looking as if he had
just strolled in from
St.
of
The
James Street.
procession closes with a number
the Raja's bodyguard,
in the most
fantastic, particolored
attire, and
'f them
some
Raja's
kins
with
the
opens
The
Crespin
and
Oh
"
to
the
is
step
and
the
Raja
toward
the
of
speak English?
of fact he
(As a matter
Highness
it
speaking
"
Raja
Uninvited,
"
Crespin
the
Rata
the
Cresfin
You
honor
assure
given
are
to
you,
not
understand
to
territory.
unwelcome.
that
this
is
if I'rightly
kingdom of Rukh, Major
symbols on your cuff.
mit
(again salutes). Major Crespin. PerThe
"
"
to
Raja
Madam,
but,
I have
of Rukh.
"
me
We
"
state
read
Eastern
salutes."
irreproachably.)
Crespin
{pulling himself together and
like a soldier and
of breeding). Then
a
man
landing uninvited in your
apologize for our
speaks
Wat-
tall, well-built
extreme
advances
little.
his
He
in
Your
yes,
temple.
makes
silence.
dressed
of the
arm
The
long.
feet
seven
or
gives
Raja
in
Does
"
six
antique matchlocks,
in front
Crespin
gorgeousness.
Raja
down
curtains
alights.
European
party
of
man
forty,
with
barrels
litter is set
he
as
armed
introduce
of
"
"
are
wife
my
to
welcome
the
first
you
lady
receiving.
to
of your
my
secluded
nation
delighted.
am
dominions.
I have
had
the
THE
128
LuciLLA
Cresun
Raja
"The
Raja
Raja
the
into
Traherne
Major.
to
their
see
that
by taking
them
LuciLLA
at
doubt
Crespin
in
hUl
clouds.
the
coming
from
up
station
and
"
them
save
was
three
in my
aeroplane.
is a sportswoman,
{with
"
the
"
been
up
rash
enough
days' traveling
then?
times.
many
you
Pahari
I have
carried
has
lost
got
children
up
Oh,
"
that
most
"
Himalayas?
were
Madam
"
well?
as
"
Crespin
might
me
we
"
of my
much
too
misadventure
some
for
"
suggest
Raja
it is
Pahari, no
Yes,
"
newspaper?
amateiir.
an
of the
Yes
Mrs.
Traherne
to
wilds
"
and
Raja
as
I presume
misadventtire
"
the
make
newspapers
Only
"
fortunate
plains
in
seen
"
TraheRne
Traheme
Doctor
It is very
incomplete.
aviator
But
are
an
you
work.
far
The
"
see.
you
"
Malaria."
of
Pasteur
often
so
whose
Traheme,
The
Traheme?
have
Traherne
so
is left of it
Doctor
name
kind.
is very
Basil
Dr.
is
this
what
or
"
"
whose
And
"
1920-1921
OF
Highness
Your
"
aeroplane
PLAYS
BEST
many
times.
LuciLLA
went
was
Well,
"
assure
having
local
allow
weather
My
goddess
the
wave
introduce
to
me
in
(with
"
demons.
or
descended
sure
you
that
sensation
have
we
But
her
of
seen
souls
the
of
your
of
temple
our
idol)
the
is considered
"
an
er
wheth-
"
fact
toward
here,
never
simple
precincts
of his hand
to
Traheme's
impossible.
made
people
not
are
of Dr.
was
have
you
you.
aeroplane. They
are
gods
you
fault
no
The
astray.
Raja
can
It
"
"
highly
significant.
Crespin
in
Raja
"
"
hope,
sir, that
we
shall
to
civ
find
"
going
no
to
to
ficulty
difIndia.
say?
"THE
hesitate,
Why
we
have
had
ourselves
is
it.
barbarous
it
but
was
in
time.
Some
with
my
blue
and
picking
But
Watkins,
Madam
what
are
up
is
you
cushions.
(Watkins
piles some
to form
seat for Lucilla.
as
a
so
litter for
Raja
continues) Another
mountain
chairs
minutes.
Then
of my
gentlemen
you
hope
standing all
thinking of?
cushions
from
will be
will accept
precarious
Meanwhile
and
Madam
here
the
in
few
hospitality
house.
poor
The
for the
were
yours
the litter
the
scimitar)
revolver;
your
fact.
accustom
his
when
ancestors
woods.
the
(touching
that
the
to
to
years
compared
by
well
very
reconciled
thousand
sword
weapon
worn
livelihood
this
This
129
know
We
quite
are
five
themselves
daubing
sir?
We
some
to
GODDESS"
dear
my
barbarians.
are
We
GREEN
major
the
for
out
the
presses
the
of
wants
The
men.
Raja
is
little
affairs
European
and
For
as
customs.
instance, though his bodyguard,
he
also is in
is a relic of barbarism,
they have
seen,
but
small
of a
command
equipped and
completely
he is pleased
which
trained
statement
a
standing army,
of
boastful
having kept
with
demonstrate
to
the
whose
sheltering
rocks
had
presence
in touch
signal
a
a
been
with
that
brings
of
company
from
native
entirely unsuspected
behind
soldiers
by
the
visitors.
of
Raja.
Allow
to
me
congratulate you on their training.
I superinI am
tend
Raja
greatly flattered, Major.
the litter.
it myself.
{Down the
Ah, here comes
Crespin
"
"
very
smart
body
men.
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
I30
path
comes
litter
men.
men
your
As
she
{He offers
palanquin.
the newspaper
falls
rises she picks up her leather coat, and
The
notices
the
it) Forgive
to
me,
Raja
ground.
A
and
looks
at
paper
newsMadam.
it)
{Picks up paper
is such
This
rarity you
a
days old!
only two
allow
must
to glance at it.
{He opens the paper and
me
been
that a strip has
out
torn
from the back page)
sees
What
The
Ah!
pity! In
a
telegraphic news
gone!
civilized
the
for tidings from
seclusion
I hunger
my
world.
{The priest comes
forward and speaks to him
in
action
Traherne's
eagerly, suggesting in pantomime
the
and
on
pointing to the ashes
burning the paper,
burned
this
the Raja
looks) You
ground, at which
hand.
his
Lucilla
column.
Traherne
Raja
"
Unfortunately,
"
Ah
! I know
did.
and
Traherne,
Dr.
motive.
your
appreciate
it.
You
"
conceal.
Crespin
Traherne
Raja
a
I know
"
that
have
politicalcrime,
Raja
thing
"
you
"
Bad
was
Raja
argue
"
"
a
"
the
knows
sentenced
is it
possible
am
Remitted?
afraid
"
not.
I
"
subjects, accused
of my
perhaps tell me
being remitted?
their sentence
Crespin
three
been
How
news
can
Traherne
"
Highness
Your
"
Traherne
It
know
You
"
"
is there
should
death.
to
Traherne.
Your
of
But
one
chance
any
of
Highness.
rather
not.
say
won't
I
"
"THE
Traherne
Raja
I think
"
Tomorrow
"
Lucilla)
waiting.
Traherne
these
tomorrow
the
or
Forgive
to
you
GODDESS"
GREEN
Does
"
after
after.
(Turning
have
kept
"
Highness
day
yes.
"
Madam
me,
Your
the
or
"
day
131
know
anjrthing of
men?
Raja
the
{over his
"
shoulder
litter). Know
he
as
them?
Oh
hands
yes
Lucilla
they
"
in0
are
my
brothers.
"He
hands
seats
himself
twice.
Both
Lucilla's
first.
single rank.
follows
in their
Crespin
His
Traherne
knows
he
"As
and
the
regular soldiers
salute
the
as
As
of the
the
his
in
way
Watkins
pass.
selves
them-
seat
so:"
did
What
he
mean?
shoulders).
Heaven
the
of
two
The
rear.
him.
the
tiger.
chairs
spacious
loggia."
is
And
how
devil
the
move
close
headed
round
by
the
them.
The
dancing
negro,
priest prostrates
before
Goddess.
the
Act
time
There's
news?
soldiers
musicians,
host, Traherne.
our
about
of
Or
got the
like
cat
"
thanksgiving,
The
line
off,
move
Traherne
do
they
brothers?
and
litters
and
Crespin
I don't
"
Traherne
ranks
raised
are
his
claps
much
had
litter and
own
{shrugging
"
Crespin
too
The
chairs.
"
his
litters
They
Raja's.
the
in
evening
of
himself,
The
two
irregulars
bring up
if
as
in
falls."
curtain
II
the
proportioned room,
On
the
loggia at
same
day,
opening
back
the
upon
turbaned
scene
a
"a
wide
servants.
under
of
direction
the
old and
an
they
has
while
but
women,
have
so
concerned
much
scheme
any
about
the
that
believe
wily
Raja
may
have
he
that
embarrassment.
their
Crespin.
Raja's serving
apprehensive
somewhat
are
covers.
joined by
of the
hands
to
four
table, with
shortly
the
in motion
set
for
planned
is
men
reason
no
soon
the
dignifiedmajordomo,
dinner
arranging a luxurious
discovered,
Traherne,
Mrs.
Crespin is still in
are
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
132
They
however,
are,
the
precariousness
you
suppose
their
of
situation.
Crespin
do
Where
"
really
we
are,
Traherne?
Traherne
Crespin
Of
"
Traherne
the
little is
very
in
all I
known,
Traherne
he
"
said
they
leg, curse
breed
our
his
Traherne
simply
"
did
the
searching
I fancy
Rukh.
to
seems
forth
send
same
he only pulling
was
meant
brothers,
caste
But,
race.
when
serious
was
Or
in ?
Haredale
poor
host
our
impudence?
He
probably
of
men
it
been
where
Some-
of fanatics.
who
those
about
that
his brothers
were
I've
heard
ever
land.
never-never
Precisely.
D'you think
"
Crespin
the
except
Like
"
mean?
you
Bokhara.
to
peculiarly poisonous
Crespin
map,
course.
way
for
memory
the
Oh,
"
on
my
On
"
even
so,
or
it's
awkward.
Crespin
the
back
I don't
"
of the
politics.
We've
Traherne
Ever
With
extract
Oh,
the
has
wind,
it's
Japanese
been
the
entrance
from
that
these
have
got
interfered
never
"
since
continent
north
what
see
case
beat
itching to
of
of
the
kick
beggars, living
do
to
with
with
them.
Asia
for
Russians
us
the
the
at
Indian
Asians.
whole
out.
to
"THE
location
the
to
as
Watkins
doesn't
the
far, as
in
Rukh,
its relation
exactly, but
India.
to
it is "not
Unfortunately we're
How
crow.
long does
it takes
They tell me
the
Watkins
of
133
so
very
flies."
"
fly with
GODDESS"
know,
crow
Traherne
to
GREEN
"
in
position
journey take?
not
the
about
weeks
three
Cashmere.
to
Crespin
"
how
Watkins
been
tell
They
long it
took
No,
sir,
"
Surely
you!
you?
excuse
sir
me,
must
you
member
re-
I've
"
never
in India.
Crespin
Not
"
I looked
thinking, as
in
been
at
And
I seemed
to
India?
that
you,
just
was
have
seen
before.
you
Watkins
in
but
England,
pleasure.
Crespin
the
Watkins
But
"
hell did
in
Not
"
Tashkent.
don't
call
if you
We
to
haven't
India, how
in
been
get here?
you
"
India, sir.
All
with
came
'Ighness, sir, by
with
Europe is by
'Is
dealin's
our
way
of
way
of
Russia.
Traherne
and
"
by
not
Watkins
there
the
Traherne
"
Watkins
central
"
to
India
direct,
Asia?
it's done,
yes,
sir.
But
told
I'm
like
negotiate
the
needle's
as
might say.
eye,
you
Difficult traveling for a lady, eh?
door to himpossible, I should
Next
guess,
tight places
very
and
camel
of
Oh
some
are
it's
way
"
possible to get
But
to
"
sir.
Traherne
say
the
of his
you
three
we're
Raja
But
"
who
accovmt
weeks
of the
knew
were
for
tried
that?
look
now
away
here, Watkins
from
Cashmere
passed on
only three days
sentence
these
ago.
you
"
"
yet
subjects
How
do
THE
134
PLAYS
BEST
Watkins
All
can't, sir.
"
things goes
queer
Traherne
1920-1921
OF
is, there's
say
can
here.
on
do you
What
Queer things?
priests,you know
Well, sir,them
'Is 'Ighness calls magic
for what
"
Watkins
"
in a
goes
Traherne
lot
Oh
"
Watkins
come,
they
"
"
lieve
be-
don't
you
"
mean?
in that!
Watkins
believe
no
say
excuse
there's
But
it.
in
can't
"
sir, I
me,
must
can't
run
don't,
not
things
queer
nor
more,
no
say
my
goes
If
less.
the
over
eye
to say
on.
you'U
dinner
'Is
Crespin
or
Traherne
him
take
to
us
Crespin
believe
he's
fool
the
arrives
"A
adventtu-es.
tell of her
tale to
think?
you
he'd
like
for.
Lucilla
When
don't
"
do
Which
fool.
damned
fellow's
That
"
exciting
an
into
little excursion
she was
Nights," she calls it, during which
without
led
down
end,
mysterious
hallways
past
grinning black guards and finally into an inner sanctum
and
bath
where
marbled
and, after the bath, rows
a
the
Arabian
rows
of
the
treated
been
the
"ayah,"
she
when
risqu^
with
or
however,
and
Raja
served
arrival
of the
the
mistress
refused
to
She
gowns.
has
Paris
latest
so
far
them
Raja,
of
the
of
the
able
to
master
three
are
able
only
"in
the
one
as
faultless
her.
She
had
reports,
respect, she
robes, objecting only
utmost
wear
was
awaited
frocks
perfect
startlingly
more
that
to
that
agree
host.
evening
situation,
With
attire
the
the
no
...
and
order
of the Russian
star
jewels except the ribbon
and
about
him
nothing oriental
except his turban
the attendants
dinner
his complexion,"
that
announce
As
is served.
they sit at table the Raja puts a record
The
the
selection
is
on
gramophone.
hauntingly
.
"THE
familiar
and
'Funeral
March
Raja,
the
as
Lucilla
of
curtain
curtain
the
When
GREEN
GODDESS''
asks
what
Marionette,'"
it
135
is.
"Gounod's
the
quietly answers
falls.
rises
moment
later
the
is
party
'See
what
Lucilla
devil of
fellow
over
the
{looking out).
snowfields.
I hope
from
the
heavens?
"
There
you
/ am!'
is the
wouldn't
"
moon
banish
rising
her
silly,good-natured face.
less
she's useful
And
and
to lovers
brigands and other lawwhom
I have
with
vagabonds
great sympathy.
She
that
she's
Besides, I don't know
so
silly,either.
ishment
to be forever
seems
raising her eyebrows in mild astonhuman
at
folly.
All
is out
this
of my
Crespin
ness.
Highdepth, Your
had a rather fatiguing day.
We've
Mightn't we
till the servants
To
be sure.
I only waited
Raja
all quite confbrtable?
had gone.
Now, are you
Lucilla
Quite.
Traherne
Perfectly, thank
you.
Crespin
Perfectly.
Raja
{smoking a cigar, and standing with his back
we'll go into committee
to the fire). Then
your
upon
'
position here.
Raja
Oh
"
no
"
I like her
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
PLAYS
BEST
THE
136
"
Raja
"
Crespin
Raja
"
you
find
it rather
may
Communications
"
difficult
1920-1921
please, sif.
If you
afraid
I'm
Crespin
OF
bad,
fear
We
eh?
have
precisely
not
yet
"
able.
disagree-
difficult.
Crespin
had
heard
Raja
We
should
tively.
Not
time!
Oh,
"
arrival
They
later.
or
said
they were
speaking figtu-aof my
sons
are
intrude
we
father
"
such
at
you
upon
don't
pray
has
Traherne
do
How
(interrupting).
"
other.
me,
mean
you
"
Believe
apologize.
"
Crespin
each
course,
subject.
dreadful!
How
Raja
all.
that
tribesmen?
your
And
"
Raja
of
were,
at
Highness
fully
tact-
so
mother.
LuciLLA
your
you
have
you
you
assassins.
those
it, sooner
to
come
far, since
very
reopening
of
Your
meant
"
of my
to
When
"
You
Raja
not
had
have
brothers
your
pain
the
me
Traherne
so
sentence
am
spared
be
passed on
glad, Major, that
of the
"
can't
surely
It
"
You
surely
But
First
can't
let
first
"
understand
us
able
of this abomin-
approve
crime?
Raja
fanaticism
in
LuciLLA
from
was
How
do
they
That
is
to
come
just what
father's
my
my
I loved
eldest
mother's
her
you
recognize
in
be
so
by
son,
me.
his
(my
to
Europe.
shed
all
my
citizen
of
the
sent
going
was
influence
!)I was
was
wholly European.
the open-minded
became
hope
there
is
no
me.
"
"
Through
how
fanatics, and
are
different
you?
Raja
I
brothers
My
"
My
tell you.
wife.
favorite
to
mother
poor
"
My education
prejudices.
world
brothers,
on
whom
the
I
I
other
"THE
hand,
of
turned
GODDESS"
for their
137
culture.
has
always been
naturally fell in
brothers
My
India
to
people
our
GREEN
The
religion
primitive idolatry.
with
adherents
of
the
each
other up to a
superstition and they worked
high pitch of frenzy against the European exploitation
same
of Asia.
Traherne
Had
"
restraininginfluence
no
you
upon
them?
Raja
had
or
Of
"
them
in
might
strangled
British
prejudices
raj. We
are
severed
from
no
the
have
the
"
But
family.
our
have
course
traditional
of
of
Motherland
favor
of
though
race,
and
"
"
of ment
arguI said,
As
I?
all in
Indian
them
form
should
why
least
"
imprisoned
I do
the
long
love
not
her
tyrants.
"
Crespin
has
(who
"
had
quite enough
short, sir,you
Oh
Raja
But
romantic
no
"
is
there
nature,
and, from
admire
it.
This
he
were
the
as
upon
good enough
morning
"Materially
But
"
morally
no
it
I fear
go.
I
.
the
might
it is
well
as
practical side to my
point of view, I rather
under
Major
the
and
royal house
the
in
are
it
circumstances,
his friends
no
longer
"
the
excuse
mentioned
Madam
colloquialism.
that
the
precisely at
and
Crespin
religion of
futile.
irritates
he
and
foolish
host's
furnish
to
"
it
romantic
plainly
statement
intrude
"
think
"
In
drink).
to
the
time
when
with
threatened
Feringhi government
the precincts of a temple
death
and
"
"
three
my
the
at
the
dropped,
subjects
the
from
princes
my
news
of
hands
the
of
moreover,
have
got it
into
their
heads
that
ducted
personally conthey especially
been
have
you
whom
Goddess
the
by
hither
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OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
138
worship."
Crespin
that
for your
Raja
do
theologians
the
Goddess
altogether
LuciLLA
Raja
Not
You
to
it not
enthusiasm
for
mortal
In
there
"
LuciLLA
So
brothers
your
Raja
"
exchange
dear
my
exchange
quite frank,
an
sir.
is what
would
it
be
again?
in history, Madam,
the
point
strong
I to
were
trouble
their
on
the
near
seldom
about
lack
throne"?
die
we
"
of
of
My
all
are
succession.
the
love
nephews.
raise
finger
no
would
you
back
remarks
brother
"a
uncles
"
is
palaver
to
idea,
brothers
who
Pope
might
family
our
the
seldom
is
children, and
mere
hostages
noted
have
may
family
princes. Is
are
be
to
get your
affection
that
sons
Nor,
that
all this
book.
my
"
"
hold
not
decrees.
suit
as
us
precisely
is not
That
"
of
upshot
hold
to
propose
brothers?
you
My
the
Then
"
to
save
That
is not
only
my
it
Supposing
reason.
of India
possible that I could
bully the Government
into giving up
sit
think
it would
relatives, do you
my
under
dear
the
humiliation?
No, no,
calmly down
It might
wait
few
decent
to find some
lady.
a
years
should
have
pedition.
pretext, but assuredly we
punitive exa
It would
of
but
money,
would
be
what
restored,
maisonette
thousands
cost
would
and
in
of lives
that
should
my
suit
me
end
Crespin
"
(angrily)
.
to
the
point,
sir?
Will
wouldn't
you
be
so
millions
Prestige
days in a
matter?
Petrograd.
Hitherto
I have
escaped the notice of your
by a policy of masterly inactivity, and
adhere
to that
policy.
It
and
at
all.
Government
I
kind
to
propose
as
to
come
"THE
Raja
mine
is
The
clerical
there
is
in
case
point.
party
party
shall
am
it
Archbishop
Canterbury
Mr.
I
have
Jorkins"
I fear I
Archbishop of York.
of
own
"
to him
You
"
Raja
I say,
from
emerged
yet
it demands
an
(a long pause)
Traherne
beg you
point is, dear
The
"
which, as
on
but
"I
"
whole
my
the
have
lady,
that
life for
of
stage
theology
has
Not
"
for
and
To
brothers
You
of
shall
free.
the
go
mean
to
say
that
there
when
clerical party
to
the
Goddess
might
Crespin
me
with
Major
that
Lucilla
"
not
be
too
would
society
Crespin angrily
its
"
bullets
begs
her
human
any
have
husband
he
Raja
the
tends
in-
calmly
about
the
sacrificed
"
"
draws
been
and
soul
whether
nothing cold-blooded
"white
goats" are to be
It
merely
passed
has
is
"if madam
her
to
as
blood
cold
in
Goddess.
Green
what
to
And
party.
If not, I wiU
be mentioned
them
murdering
clerical
that
query
"
"
the
honor
excited
Major's
us
executed.
word
your
shall never
us
you
replies
kill
"
are
tooth
life.
I, Madam
not
development:
tooth
eye,
the
is founded
power
an
would
You
"
Raja
only if my
"
ner:
part-
Highness.
point.
the
to
(aftera pause)
Unfortunately, I do.
Lucilla
between
introduce
to
Your
us.
come
Mosaic
for
eye
to
"
"
demand
my
have
Raja
am
terribly exacting
may
torturing
are
husband,
my
True,
for
me,
tomorrow.
Lucilla
Like
theology.
to
it.
"
you
boot, and
to
pleases with
oppose
soon
too, Madam,
slave
it
reach
theocracy
what
to
139
remember,
do
can
other
no
We
is generally
autocracy
an
GODDESS"
Gently, Major!
Please
{To Lucilla)
"
enough.
that
GREEN
At
which
his
evident
revolver
"
not
to
find
Earnestly
extracted.
Traherne
insult
to
leave
her
alone
Madam,
ceremony,
will
and
hinted
with
meet
with
me
be
not
the
reproached
lack
gentlemen's
these
at
.
pleased,
consideration.
Traheme
"Dr.
Raja.
so
"The
must.
of consideration
that, if you
every
1920-1921
OF
die
let her
to
"
PLAYS
BEST
THE
I40
for
sex,
should
sex
your
that
gather
your
do
you
and
Well, I scarcely hoped you would
the less, the suggestion
I do not press the point.
None
And
remains
I'm afraid I've been
talking a
now
open.
You
must
be fatigued."
great deal.
The
The
bit of paper.
with
enters
majordomo
a
withdraws
Raja reads it interestedly, and immediately
not
so
please ?
"
with
the
them
presently.
wireless
(much
sending out
They're
Traherne
That
"
communication
LuciLLA
accounts
Wireless,
Jupiter!
by
for it !
They're
Antony
knows
less
in wire-
India!
with
{to Traherne).
"
of
message
sound
faint
the
for
news
is heard.
excited).
"
have
may
later
moment
in operation
machine
Crespin
he
that
announcement
all about
wireless.
Crespin
all
job
and
"
read
rather
war!
if
think
If
so
could
it my
Wasn't
hear
tinctly
dis-
more
they're transmitting
in
clear
"
their message.
Traherne
That
"
Crespin
five
the
through
now
I could
I should
"
If
"
minutes,
Lucilla
could
call up the
What
then?
Why,
"
salvation
our
we'd
aerodrome
wireless
at Amil-Serai
bring
soon
of the
get control
and
"
Crespin
we
be
may
the
Raja
to
for
"
his
senses.
Lucilla
installation
Somewhere
"
Traherne
must
Where
do
overhead
you
suppose
the
is?
Crespin
We
{toCrespin).
"
"
on
no
We
must
account
go
say.
cautiously. Major.
Raja suspect that we
very
let the
should
"THE
know
GREEN
about
anything
take
care
should
we
Crespin
wireless
get
never
Right
"
GODDESS"
you
141
the
near
he'd
installation.
Traheme
are,
else
telegraphy,
"
low.
,
LuciLLA
behave
that
to
Crespin
the
"
horrible
We
"
And
how
are
to
we
man?
keep
raust
stiff upper
lip and
play
game.
LuciLLA
You
"
ghastly comedy
pretend
hospitality and
of
take
to
mean
in
part
this
politeness?
'
Traherne
If
"
delight
in
favor.
But
for
We
must
us
'
up.
With
showing
that
avoid
he
the
has
sunset.
"Meanwhile
as
been
I should
it would
runs
you,
There
of
hope
is
he
advise
of
Hall.
My
hundred
three
you
him
and
miles
the
the
regarding
only think
posal.
dis-
palace gates
almost
warn
go?
impassable
British
nearest
tennis
all at your
are
pass
of
his
following at
regard my
poor
will
to
firms
con-
day
Liberty
you
ently
Pres-
received
execution
the
you
wireless
Raja.
has
library
my
the
second
the
our
lock
and
question
They
that
for
His
all in
the
be
not
between
country
news
room,
not
very
are
return
This
billiard
discovering
on
the
wisest.
all cost.
at
that
set
own.
your
courts, my
set
announcement
brothers
house
that
The
comes.
be
European policy is
might separate us
he
hopes
they await
apparatus
"
off his
their
it would
can,
you
his method
of
post."
receiving
of its
being by wireless,
that seems
hardly
Craftily,
himself
he thinks, the Raja assures
by questioning
as
that
nothing of the workings of a
them,
they know
the
they
they admit, but
news;
wireless
plant.
Traherne
Raja
"
"
Do
can
credible.
boastfully admits
Then
he
And
with
whom
think
that
you
do
communicate?
you
quite
its presence.
fair
question.
it show
Does
Doctor?
agents
Madam,
"
see
LuciLLA
If
"
have
But
hands.
exchange
I
Raja
f
why that
you
an
"
it
agreed,
am
is
would
here
the
such
The
"
goose
my
"
thought
try
but
I have
take
revenge
No
or
at
your
your
ours?
if your
India,
them,
bring about
to
for
Even
reach
ever
for
instruct
lives
concession.
ayah,
"
told
already
Government
on
me
for
whisper of your
again forgive
is cooked.
of
children
my
does
not
you?
move
Raja
of them
I
LuciLLA
to
"
for
the
Does
desperation,
What
Goddess?
the
move
to
may
is to
from
Government
have
to
impossible.
it not
we
children
have
desolated
am
ask
not
must
brothers
My
"
thought
Madam,
us
must
vulgarism
LuciLLA
impossible.
assuredly
my
moment.
favor
you
and
Simla
Madam,
sorry.
stay
beg
won't
brothers'
your
"
having extorted
presence
with
ring
would
us
for the
If it weren't
sakes
communicate
to
agent
of
their
for
No
please.
any
room
children.
that
I have
tact?
Shall
your
you
two
imagine
don't
usual
more.
to
you
1920-192]
OF
yoiir
no
say
can
to
Prince,
PLAYS
BEST
THE
142
strike
find
prevent
that
of
refuse
does
"
India?
you,
but
{He presses
that, if you
you
means
me,
the
of
for
cheating
instance,
the
No,
you
bell.)
drive
your
from
throwing myself
loggia?
Raja
Nothing, dear lady, except that clinging to
and
the known,
the unknown,
all
that
shrinking from
of us feel, even
while we
be
despise it. Besides, it would
of the word.
While
foolishly precipitate, in every
sense
is hope.
You
there is life there
can't read
mind.
my
For aught you
have
tell,I may
can
intentipn of prono
ceeding
and
to extremities
be
little
only
pla3dng a
may
I hope you
have
that
I have
observed
joke upon
you.
of humor.
{The ayah enters) Ah, here is the
a
sense
Good
night. Madam;
ayah.
sleep well.
{He bows
her to the door)
No?
Gentlemen,
a
whisky and soda.
No?
Then
good night, good night.
"
"THE
After
they have
powerftil
table
Then
he
totally
He
dark
up
light of
the
he
off
the
torch
"the
electric
idol
it,and
upon
lights himself
from
switches
the
toward
the
it
it
on.
is
backgrotind.
throws
mantelpiece,
makes
the
which
room,
moonHt
now
the
on
takes
and
lights of
the
^14^
Raja
torch
the
for
except
to
GODDESS"
retired
switches
goes
Then
GREEN
the
ironic salaam.
an
door
curtain
the
as
falls."
Act
The
is
scene
the
Raja's
European
and
with
the
old-fashioned,
scene
of
The
casual
the
at
II."
"
room,
The
"an
snuggery
its comfort
contrasting
splendor of the
comfortless
time
entirely
is the
following morning.
three
the
modem
Act
III
of
back
left
leads
that
the
the
be
to
room
billiard
locked.
door
the
at
hallway
connecting with the rest of the palace. A large open
window
at the right has the effect of being at a great
view
the valley to the
across
height and conomands
a
It is Traheme's
conclusion, the
snow
peaks beyond.
has
look
had
he joins Crespin and
moment
arotmd,
a
Their
to
locked
minds
outwit
doors
are
their
wily
to
on
Traheme
pieces
jagged
does
the
Doctor.
have
not
host.
Raja
How
slept
upon
They
drop
a
he.
room.
finding some
might, Major
Crespin
him
window
out
Before
to
way
of the
feet
"They'd
says
wireless
the
himdred
approve.
to
But
below.
only
tear
they
can
us
to
plan
enters.
Good
"
and
rocks
quicker,"
ftirther the
Raja
intent
up
let into
back
at
now
another
room;
morning,
do
well?
you
like
{They,
good
Major;
snuggery?
my
make
no
answer)
morning,
I
hope
No?
you
Ah,
THE
144
perhaps
We
find
you
Crespin
business
cat-and-mouse
nothing
Raja
Send
"
if I
were
You
tried
Crespin
her
don't
it
reasonable,
Do
"
if it weren't
you,
we'll
make
to
British
nearest
for
we
my
concession
any
tomorrow's
on
say
us.
assure
as
my
jects
sub-
ceremony.
be
revolution.
sir.
dear
my
to
faithful
my
would
there
think
you
how
this
Make
nerves.
the
to
know
forward
cancel
be
back
us
You
to
must
damn
so
ever
looking
are
"
you
is worth.
place
If
the
about
one's
on
Bible
oath
our
give you
pleasantry you've played
dear
back, my
Major?
be as much
willing, it would
we'll
and
outpost,
gets
send
to
arrangements
mind.
Never
trying?
of
Come
"
1920-1921
OF
altitude
this
methods
have
you,
PLAYS
BEST
would
truckle
to
wife's
sake?
But
promise
"
you
you,
for
thing.
any-
What
"
can
do
you
say
{Opening
the
door)
What
httle
business
With
the
the
billiard
between
he
room,
and
admits
wireless
to
summons
the
have
not
yet
Here
is the
attend
to, but
and
It
soothes
biUiard
I'll
the
room.
join
you
nerves.
I have
presently.
Traheme
safely disposed of in
the
Raja carefuUy closes the door
Watkins.
He is a little worried,
the
butler, to have his guests so near
and
apparatus
ignorance
billiards?
to
to
major
you
little doubtful
of its mechanism.
tried
to
bribe
Watkins
as
The
is
to
their
fact that
tended
pre-
they
suspicious.
It
"THE
looks
GREEN
though
as
sleeves.
He
have.
"I
they might
would
want
the
message
the
is
She
room.
about
be
can
companions,
pleasantly to the Raja's
yet, he
attempts
the
for
of
to
some
and
them,
Before
Lucilla
Crespin enters
by a sleepless night, anxious
and
in a mood
to respond
not
renewed
her, he is in
assure
desperate
be charged
must
way
no
in which
sible
respon-
fate, the
whatever
or
"
the
is
He
party, whatever
of her
Has
pulls
show."
puppet
self.
her-
finds
she
against "chance,
whoever,
gods, Providence
strings of this tmaccountable
the men
quite powerless to save
he might be able to do for her.
And
in her.
interest
situation
That
send
it."
understanding
formulated
her
catch
to
to
presence,
startle
or
enrage
to
worn
their
up
them, if they
their
sign
any
145
something
have
trap
in
is bound
if they show
see
plan
you,
that
message
GODDESS"
she
sidered
seriously con-
Raja
I could
to
be
it would
off and
send
to
to
to
to
me
while.
your
children
your
have
them
ried
car-
here.
you
faces him).
(starts,and
"
worth
letter
for
easy
very
brought
Lucilla
It will be
me.
undertake
not
but
"
Listen
"
do
What
you
mean?
Raja
have
"
children
your
happy
will
If
"
why
not
over,
your
suppose
own
accept
That
"
ing,
uninjxired,unsuspect-
time, of your
it would
homage
the
free
own
be
my
the
You
have
have
the
courage
say,
that
"
believe, I dare
is
in your
may
you
offer you.
privilege to
Raja
arms,
month,
"
oh,
"
will
Lucilla
"
in your
If?
"
you
"
if
"
Lucilla
Raja
mean
you
will awaken
that
to
in
in
rejoiilyou.
fifty
forty
"
live?
tomorrow,
will
children
to
courage
"
new
die, dear
lady
You
(Pause)
when
life,and
the
that
"
ordeal
there
so:
Suppose it were
sixty years, they passed
to
over
Himself
give
offer
is
passing
utterly cut
death;
that
future
will
children
your
shades,
but
living and
young
they
would
They
would
and
assured;
shadow
past,
not
loving. They
forget all that had
manhood
to
but
of
except
as
vague
be
must
soon
grow
the
you,
God
What
the
off from
with
be
Can
childhood?
through
life, without
new
children?
problematical,
life,not
new
1920-1921
your
their
back
you
OF
they be
Would
you:
you
PLAYS
BEST
THE
146
quite
before.
gone
womanhood
under
and
the
whole
ultimately, perhaps, when
forgotten,you might, if you wished it,return
story was
with them
caU civilization.
to what
And, meanwhile,
you
of the best
only on the threshold
are
you
years
of your
would
life. You
them, not as a memsahib
pass
in a paltry Indian
but
the absolute
cantonment,
as
absolute
I do
talk
of
of an
not
to you
king.
queen
eyes;
your
romantic
love.
accessible
I respect
I respect
much
as
pretended
to
I say
should
son,
my
you
if you
other
him.
with
the
respect
me
gave
that
the
from
"LuciUa
elbows
speaks
in
LuciLLA
Raja
is
LuciLLA
I
"
be
hands
now
Therefore
the
man
and
him
to
of
flower
of
serve
Europe,
of the
the
East
future
"
bom.
you
I can't
perceptible
pause
before
she
voice."
Is that
beg
the
never
end
toneless
"
"
the
her
West
I have
arrogance
of
just it:
motionless
sat
on
There
the
down
the
blending
may
"
has
in
her.
of
hate
and
you
Your
only queen.
the prince of princes;
be
all bow
I
a
flower
should
one,
is
woman.
first and
my
think
to
that
you;
other
any
should
sons
Superman
her
be
But
I admire
as
For, though
believe
sentiment.
silly
to
much
too
you
Have
all?
to
you
quite done?
answer.
answer
the
greater
part
of what
"THE
have
you
least
"In
been
have
less
than
back
you
aloud.
147
have
All
have
may
heard
not
have
your
again, "Can
God
it;
at
heard
is
children
in
Himself
give
These
words
have
kept
brain
till (showing her handkerchief)
my
I have
bit my
lip to keep from shrieking
at
"
childhood?"
I think
mouth
it.
you
then
their
see
you
"
month
for
understood
and
hammering
GODDESS"
saying,
not
arms,"
your
GREEN
the
devil
have
must
in your
them
put
"
Raja
Pooh
"
You
don't
believe
in
old
these
bugbears.
LuciLLA
But
there
Perhaps not.
temptation, and you have
"
diabolical
as
the
of
secret
Raja
"Can
month
fotu
or
their
this
upon
it, if
you
what
on
and
death
murderous
"
have
may
should
house
little
your
in
cower
of yours,
ones
"
vehemently)
I should
That
should
"
is,
childhood?"
their
interrupting him
friend
of
think
can
"
them
conditions?
my
"
yes
like
you
arms."
in your
that.
In
think
of
have
may
(rising and
husband
to
weeks
"
but
"
you
(eagerly). Yes,
"
LuciLLA
my
of
art
All
long harangue.
Himself
back
give you
"In
three
the
in your
Raja
Yes
Mastered
God
and,
stumbled
it.
"
not
thing
Stumbled!
"
LuciLLA
but
is such
let them
some
go
back
listeningto
the
desert
room
alone
of
ticking
the stroke
now
thinking, "Now
the
has fallen"
not
to hear
ears
so
as
stopping my
and
yells of your
bloodthirsty savages
yet, perhaps,
No, Prince!
dying day.
hearing nothing else to my
said
not
passing through the
something about
you
of death;
if I did this I should
not
shadow
but
pass
into
children
through it,but live in it, and bring my
in
it as well.
What
be the good of having them
would
of the
clock
and
"
"
"
"
"
my
if I could
arms
Raja
LuciLLA
"
That
"
The
not
is your
look
them
in the
answer?
face?
THE
148
The
send
BEST
"The
to
Raja conspires with Watkins
reads :
hearing of Crespin and Traheme
within
has
lady
Highness'
is sent,
bribe
1920-1921
the
message
out
OF
PLAYS
to
come
If, before
household."
Crespin
either
Watkins,
to
or
get
should
at
message
to
attempt
wireless, the
the
His
enter
the
after
or
Traheme
or
will
She
terms.
is
butler
"I have
guard and let the Raja know..
he says.
in you,
the most
Watkins,"
implicit confidence
would
have
"I know
offer you
that
anything they can
that
in England
in India, and
be paid either
to
or
daren't
in either country."
show
nose
you
your
Their
and
Crespin and
signals are
agreed upon,
Traheme
summoned.
said, the Raja
They have
are
had
reminds
them, that they have
experience with
no
it work.
wireless.
them
to see
amuse
Perhaps it would
is told to open
Watkins
that it would, and
They admit
to
the
summon
the
doors
of
the
wireless
and
room
additional
"order
the
sending of
During
the message
the visitors pretend a complete
ignorance
of what
is
is going on
and
the Raja
at its conclusion
satisfied they were
telling the truth when
they declared
their
Summoned
ignorance of its workings.
by the
High Priest, the Raja explains that he is obliged personally
from
champagne
to attend
Tashkent."
to
"some
to
break
their
down
arousing
Watkins
him.
to
succeeding
If
recall
the
doors
for tomorrow's
arrangements
of
course
leading
to
for
half
the
his
knowledge
of
They
wireless
palace. Therefore
they
in their plans.
First
they wiU
that can
be done, the major, who
tm-
conference
hasty
action.
the
and
alone
are
hour.
an
cannot
without
include
must
try
is
to
bribe
struggling
a
message
Amil-Serai,
bribe
Watkins
there
is but
one
other
thing they
can
do
"THE
and
bind
"
the
summon
want
to
This
mind
you
There's
"
no
window
they
upon,
You
want
we
words
few
don't
We
here?
over
sir?
rang,
understands
one
oblige
I dare
"
say
you
'and
at
all the
me,
sir.
English,
same.
sir!
Now,
.
can
what
guess
want
we
you.
I'm
"
no
of
proposed
for
the
Watkins
one
of them
or
intend
don't
three
is up.
stand
to
number
your
surely
"
My
"
"
as
of
people,
own
your
by
and
lady?
Watkins
"
You
murdered
Watkins
LuciLLA
'eard
I've
"
us
is
what
know
You
into
fallen
we've
tomorrow?
Traherne
see
that
bloodthirsty savages?
"
and
I'd rather
guessin', sir.
know
you
"
has
either
women,
is it ?
And
lady
"
then, Watkins.
woman,
What
"
people,
own
"
and
people
own
my
that
for the
risk my
neck
I wouldn't
do it for all yotir
I should
sake
ever
lose
done
for
cushy
of you?
England, I teU
three
of the
bloomin'
straight.
Crespin
It's
"
good,
no
Come
Traherne.
down
to
tacks.
Traherne
"
just possible
Watkins
we
"
wot
The
first
me
agreed
door).
the
{coming forward)
"
Watkins
tin
of the
out
much
coming
Please
"
Traherne
you
149
speak loud.
Watkins
job
htm
Yes, Watkins,
Do
Traherne
me
drop
(standing by
"
Watkins
with
and
below.
"
Traherne
you.
GODDESS"
butler.
Watkins
with
him
gag
rocks
the
onto
GREEN
sent
Only
might
You
It
misread
our
was
man.
for me
done
thing England ever
to
a
reformatory for pinchin' a
was
to
silver
'ave
rattle
BEST
PLAYS
haristocrat
in
THE
ISO
off
young
likes of
the
And
I do
did
why
bashed
my
That's
wot
should
But
of
offer
yes,
Wy
me.
than
being scragged
quite
see
is, What'U
now
Get
"
you
of view.
point
your
take
to
get
out
us
is not
his
for
sterling if they
interest
he
to
was
you
the
him
to
is
instrument
cheating
reads,
with
Then
escape.
the
ing
bargain-
fifteen
call, however,
keys
considerable
it, and
treble
their
goes
he
in the
After
pay
first
that
over
to
make
His
message.
starts
then
U's, agreeing
Crespin
that?
interested
assistance.
double,
they
I. O.
I do
If
and
sending
By going into that room
aerodrome.
through to the Amil-Serai
Watkins
offer
this !
"
this message
But
could
'ow
of
out
you
millions
me
Traherne
of
for
have
handed.
empty
meant
woman
would
this?
Watkins
to
Ah
"
has
for.
England
man
question
the
for
back
come
and
That,
mother
my
beauty
more
care
Traherne
and
thank
to
got
Because
it?
'ome
for
I've
wot
1920-1921
p'rambulator.
in if I'd have
face
I do
what
that, is
OF
them.
"The
send
to
the
Major
reveals
to
The
message
white
"
show
he
goats
"
"
"
for
But
before
he
can
ready
get any
With
farther
Traherne
and
him.
Crespin
are
upon
kerchief
Lucilla's
scarf they gag
and
with
him
Crespin's handhim.
behind
they tie his hands
Struggling,
window.
"Watkins'
head
falls
him
to the
they carry
are
"
"
back, and
his
swathing
gag.
"
terror-stricken
They
rest
eyes
can
him
be
seen
over
the
on
the
moment
balustrade."
Traherne
Crespin
"
"
Must
Nothing
we
"
else
?
for
it
"
who
one,
has
two,
been
three!
watching,
"THE
Crespin
(He
he
out
it !
"
it.
open
hold
I'll
lying
to
drink
it !
rushes
{A
when
great
I
pause)
the
I've remembered
door?
in
soldiers
are
the
door).
the
passage.
door.
the
himself before
and
instrument
rapidly
stations
the
to
down!
cries in
then
speak!
I have
There
{He
it.
Crespin
it
"
Traherne
taken
and
glass,
that
151
is about
and
Don't
on!
lock
you
LuciLLA
Don't
the
Yes, by God,
Can
call!
haven't
we
down
Hold
excitement)
GODDESS"
whisky
some
puts
pauses,
have
least
At
"
pours
GREEN
amines
ex-
it.)
Crespin
The
"
scoundrel
reduced
has
the
{Makes an
adjustment with feverish haste)
wave
length ! {He begins to transmit.)
Traherne
Crespin
I get them
"He
and
No,
"
haven't
they
Do
"
the
I don't
no;
But
Now
expect
it's
any
even
an
I'm
"
chance
with
breathless, Traherne
stand
while
Raja
fires.
The
his shoulder
he
topples
to
the
couch.
the
up
toward
Raja
did
you
to
copy
he
and
the
floor.
The
of
whips
Raja,
the
at
message.
braces
able
and
to
the
Crespin
and
instrument, but
Then
adjustments.
and
He
get him
table, picks
Traherne
wireless
the
the
the
the
Lucilla
Major
of
his revolver
out
on
unmakes
back
is forced
Seeing
room.
falls forward
major
himself
recovers
the
machine
wireless
he
Gradually
into
rushes
the
at
back.
them
that
Traherne
sound
is the
Suddenly there
guards approaching through the hall. Traherne
is
himself
against the door and for a moment
hold
sure
same.
door."
the
to
the
answer?
any
transmitting hurriedly
on
Lucilla
get
power.
all the
goes
you
current.
turns
menacingly
Crespin.
"
{holding out
get through?
the
paper).
How
much
of this
THE
IS2
Crespin
LuciLLA
Raja
makes
All
burst
speaks
looks
door
the
Lucilla
Raja
Tut
"
on
the
to
in.
kneeling,
to
over
the
tut
for
"
now,
hear
cannot
we
most
"
reflectively)Otherwise,
major
by
It is the
gloomy
We
adhere
has
only
hour
wiadow
the
to
a
set
if my
of it.
our
few
brothers
(Looks
the message
for
tomorrow.
of you.
The
is "a
scene
human
at
the
withdrawn
curtains
balcony
of
the
or
the
head
Goddess,
When
.
round
changed.
un-
IV
execution.
opening, curtained
be
remains
programme
start
ish
fool-
should
at
situation
hours'
for the
And
...
and
seen
over
Crespin's
inconvenient.
the
Act
level
other
drag him
kneeling
caknly
three
of them
One
window,
and
him
remains
goes
"
part
your
reprieved,
and
"
out.'
Raja
The
still
outside, and
rush
and
seize
Traherne,
to
The
is heard
Raja, pointing
left.
body.
noise
open
up
the
to
(Traherne,
eh?
over,
the
to
rush
two
you
'
this moment
soldiers
little). Damn
affirmative sign.)
an
At
1920-1921
dead.)
(crying out). Antony!
back
"
"
OF
(raising himself
"
{Falls
none!
PLAYS
BEST
the
are
the
beginning
they
shoulders
of
of the
reveal
steps
animal
wide
When
act.
sort
above
of which
can
of
the
be
image of the
of some
apparently at a distance
fiftyyards.
the curtain
rises a group
of priests is gathered
doorway, left, while the chief priest stands
a
colossal
umns,
col-
"THE
the
at
holding
center,
and
A
looking out.
right. For a moment
there is a regular and
without.
Then
chair.
They
priest
but
me,
not
You
to
Raja,
crowd
moimtain
in
Do
Raja.
Crespin go.
am
splendid
what
you
Send
her
sure,
absolute
silence
then,
I might
get
upon
Traherne
as
sake,
her
to
to
band's
hus-
that
couldn't
dear
Doctor.
Raja
what
to
death?
for
vengeance
know
for
chance,
brought
craving
will, my
subtle,
religion
shaU
you
not
the
of his
manners
his
here?
you
to
do
you
double
and
It
the
was
geance.
ven-
and
"
insult.
Do
blind
not
was
Goddess.
It
drew
you
here
magnetism.
My
will
is
that
god
by
escape
me.
are
the
Goddess
brothers
subjection
And
god.
of
my
"
that
for revenge,
irresistible
my
"
today
it
than
more
any
the
work
pleasure
pleasure
of
centuries
what
from
devilish
The
Vengeance
might
heads.
Pleasure?
"
my
command
Then
us
No!
nothing.
for
your
"
putting
it?
quite right,
are
Priest
hair
no
that
strapped
believe,
High
in
Believe
"
"
oracle.
the
if I would.
Raja
my
curtain
of execrations."
me,
let Mrs.
don't
Traherne
you
door,
mine.
You
"
you
find
the
from
the
apart
the
at
of
chorus
by
to
to
or
Raja
hurt
rise
murmur
into
Listen
fate and
am
guard
on
Traheme,
Russia, and
will swear
to keep
save
little way
the
subdued
followed
"
with
she
is
after
in
are
Traherne
India
curtains
153
attire.
Eastern
will
the
it swells
bring
soldiers
Two
GODDESS"
GREEN
have
{Yells from
bringing
Mrs.
the
Traheme,
as
by
my
sworn
crowd
Crespin.
for
Raja apologizes to Lucilla
fanaticism
is quite
people. Their
control.
was
last
the
yond
be-
request, asks
THE
154
that
and
he
left for
be
Crespin
Mrs.
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
few
moments
alone.
Raja
spite of
Traherne
Watkins,
"
loss
great
I bear
malice
no
show
me!
to
Traherne
time
Raja
Then
"
to
us
by
Why,
"
know
la
of
Watkins
poor
"
comme
guerre
fair act
"
war.
la
gvierre!
anxious
am
"
to
consideration.
remains
that
you
But
for
every
you
"
Inconsiderate
"
In
if it is in my
power.
of
action
yesterday
means,
inconsiderate
your
Raja
by all
Why,
"
will
you
?
all
leave
us
And
means.
for
alone
the
oh, by
the
way,
being
I trust
It will be brief and
painless.
protracted.
The
High Church
Party are not incapable of cruelty;
face against it.
but
I have
(Lucilla
resolutely set my
stood stonily gazing straightin front of her)
has meanwhile
need
you
have
no
fear
of
the
ceremony
"
"
"
Before
Madame,
I go,
I remind
may
"
of
you
takes
(Lucilla
of
offer
my
no
{She
it!
So
be
{He
At
this moment
turns
to go.
a
great yell of triumphant
hatred
goes up from the populace.)
husband's
Your
Raja
body. Madam.
They are
laying it at the feet of the Goddess.
Lucilla
You
promised me
That
be
burnt.
I will keep my
it should
Raja
I had
But
three
brothers
see
promise.
a head
you
to
refuse?
"
"
"
"
"
for
head.
"He
into
goes
priests. Only
hidden
by the
Traherne
the
sure
asks
sacrifice
inner
chamber,
the
guard at
door
jamb."
Lucilla
that
it is not
the
will
wrong
the
As
encircled
door
is detennined
bring
her
to
refuse?
remains,
gently
if she
children
Sadly
by
as
not
to
half
possible
to
her;
she
his
make
is she
confesses
"THE
that
she
has
"
it !
and
misery,
would
"But
be
live
much
would
that
should
better
there, I
"
die of shame
to
"
mother
all the
through
I should
children
my
of
sort
could
155
else
nothing
says.
leave
if I did, what
They
"If
she
GODDESS"
of
thought
hours.
torturing
confess
GREEN
Or,
man.
I be
without
and
them?
to
me!
Oh,
precious,
across
With
the
time
speak finallyof
leave
lying
have
Lucilla
bows
her
light heart
that
and
all
might
you
and
it
with
I wonder
if you
since
we
wife,
bound
have
thought
it is
and
you
with
life of earth
the
that
me
for
"
to
him
what
and
you
loving
meant
by
been
to
to
love
has
been
not
can
say
they
really
stood
have
do
you
love
ever
me
see
My
am
gladness
another
as
you
ties I couldn't
ask you
to
Dun,
you,
wretched
it has
what
me.
without
living with
of
guess
Dehra
at
met
and
live
oh,
but
you;
man's
break.
quite
your
between
me
heaven.
Lucilla
the
for
than
hell, hell !
selfish,Lucilla, since I
children, though I know
and
to
perceptible pause
think
upon
meant
I meant
"The
you
back
my
Rather
"
compared
It has
I turn
die with
to
Do
they
tie my
But
tongue.
this side
of eternity.
{After
"
Traherne
glad
on
head)
' '
Lucilla!"
me,
Lucilla
to
arms
end
an
their love.
seemed
on?
go
to
Traheme.
moment
one
shall
drawing
and
says
there
out
only
Lucilla,
them
themselves
it all unspoken,"
of him
we
left to
my
"
I have
known
from
beginning.
Traherne
fools?
that
and
We
"
have
Oh,
Lucilla, have
sacrificed
{with a gesture
beauty of life!
to
an
idol
as
toward
the
im-age)
What
do
"
care
been
not
we
for
fools,
senseless
glory
bloodless,
all the
a
as
THE
iS6
life
shadowy
extinct.
heart
that
OF
there
not
cries
out:
1920-1921
abstract, with
life in the
"
Is
eternal
PLAYS
BEST
in
something
"We
all the
the
don't
depths
Better
it!
want
our
sleep!"?
LuciLLA
Basil
Oh,
"
going
are
you
"
back
on
your
wisdom.
own
Traherne
Wisdom!
"
love, thwarted
to
when
said
you
without
hands
be going
to
LuciLLA
that
has
What
and
wisdom
tmfulfilled?
it is
You
mockery
killed
love
for
and
ever
have
children.
blast is heard
is the
to
up
a
"
signal!
She
holds
stand
her
out
muttered
part, and
until,
at
of
at
from
stand, hand
curtains
dear
hands
chant
"Suddenly,
my
you
even
that
"
in
things
could
love
your
him.
sound
(A
behind
hand,
the
doorway
all
They
of
trumpet
There
facing
part,
wearing
and
and
ciu'tains, they
doorway.
the
from
note
and
kiss
tom-toms
the
great shattering
I,
love.
to
a
may
ice
coward-
Good-by,
embraced,
low
for
me
We
it cowardice.
as
"
made
of love
ever.
call
"
say
right
were
speak
to
Basil, don't
too, regret
perhaps as much
But
not
were
as
they were.
No,
"
to
lips to kiss.
clasp, without
pale parody of life; but in our
to
some
have
we
the
senses
of
gong,
procession of
fantastic
robes
and
the
chief
headdresses, and
all, except
priest, masked.
The
dress,
Raja follows
them, also wearing
a
priestly headand
Behind
him
three
gorgeously robed.
come
dark-robed
and
masked
figures,carrying heavy swords.
Musicians
The
selves
thembring up the rear.
priests group
round
The
Raja
Lucilla
even
the
is
throne."
still
he
repeats
though
she
his
"had
bent
offer
rather
on
To
torturing them.
regarding her children;
die
hundred
deaths"
"THE
than
them
see
have
GREEN
in his
Lucilla
shrieks
Traheme
Raja's
throat.
There
pull Traheme
away
but ill-advised,Dr.
"I
chief
that,
their
of
you
fury
a
Raja
Well
"
have
laid
impious
alone!
Send
Lucilla
Traheme
Lucilla
ritual
"
on
of
with
forward
to
you
cry.)
speak
"
to
you
What
thinking
you
are
of !
"
him
voice
Lucilla
"
beg
the
priests,who
which
Traherne
crumple
and
up,
his
away.)
dies
you
to
to
"
beg
you
One
minute
"
more
"The
looks
Raja
shoulders
through
rushed
and
the
Lucilla
Raja
steps
upon
the
him
Let
and
Soho
"
gives
the
"
unharmed
her
at
the
of
end
him
go,
You
be
will
little additional
shrugs
is dragged
Traheme
her desperation, has
throne.
of the
then
moment,
Lucilla, in
it shall
"
for
order.
an
doorway.
up
exhausted,
save
insist
away.
causes
his
will not
They
motions
{The Raja
do
something to
no
the
on
alone
expiation
rushes
speak
must
"
hands
yes.
Dr.
Traherne
colleagues
torture?
mean
"
"
angry
"
(Lucilla
Lucilla
Goddess.
of
now
My
death
the
at
priests
Chivalrous,
the
you.
As
the
' '
will
process
You
"
and
so
the
but
"
killed.
observes
your
her,
savagely
caste,
of
subjecting you to
great antiquity
Traherne
himself
Traheme,"
as
them
struggle,
pinion his arms.
and
sacred
the
appease
could, he reminds
throws
is
157
have
or
regret it and
insist
here
he
power
kidnapped,
them
Raja.
GODDESS"
throne
send
him
She
sinks,
now
itself.
back
wish.
you
do
for
your
to
India
as
pain
"
what
lover
you
"
to
would
BEST
THE
iS8
do
not
have
to
I agree
No,
choice.
no
and
Raja
the
over
LuciLLA
pose
Sup-
be
have
must
Send
bargain.
the
know
he
but
"
him
"
down
to
Kashmir,
thinks
of
you?
"
"
he
what
care
will
He
"
wouldn't
frontier
don't
You
"
he
foot, if need
you!
to
this sacrifice?
accept
of
1920-1921
restored
he
is part
and
him
put
no,
That
hand
bound
would
"
OF
children
your
"
LuciLLA
PLAYS
what
think.
to
what
And
know
think.
to
Raja
I, too, Madam,
her face toward
and
turns
{He seizes her by the shoulders
teU me
that
look
in the eyes
and
Come,
him)
me
you
"
honestly
intend
to
droops)
I knew
it!
the
confiding
No
woman
will
you
I have
you,
the
no
damned
want
down
off
strip
to
the
to
instrument
the
shall
hand
You
will
my
protection
frontier, and,
him
letter
tell him
that
here
offer.
written
make
"
Never
"
never
the
good
fulfillment
faith
I don't
and
Come
Dr.
free,
at
you
come
the
now,
Traheme
my
to
home.
your
that
people
dictation.
my
children
your
in
and
determined
this
have
to
by
have
you
him
set
all
plaything
pride. I
lady,
put
tell
me
my
your
tone)
his
up,
with
handmaid
I will
they
as
pay
Let
make
pented
re-
accept
quently
Conse-
conveyed
to
"
LuciLLA
no
and
wish
you
the
not
pride
to
mockery
delicate
English
{Changing
plain
you
the
my
imagine.
you
of
woman,
man.
over
you
the
all
But
to
I want
I want
yours.
elemental
of
I'll make
of
beauty,
your
with
me!
has
body.
"
head
you
have
dead
dead
you
as
that
me
you
your
veins,
your
brain
sly
of
for
use
in
blood
when
off with
me
fool
to
think,
You
fob
tried
simple
so
{Her
with
playing
are
is not
ever
bargain!
your
You
barbarian
has
it.
fulfill
I must
believe
of
your
have.
in it
one
never!
"
wiU
make
children.
will
give
bond.
For
me
no
But
without
little bit.
hostages
for
pledge of your
pledge. Madam,
"THE
LuciLLA
Raja
I may
GREEN
What
"
Only
"
it will
Then,
it
the
to
borne
moment
work
I will
let him
evade
to
I will hand
escape,
their will with; and
their
have
you
But
the
pledge, by death
to the
priests to
over
I will
fulfilled
free.
go
prison.
"
when
"
your
him
instincts.
savage
lady,
"
attempt
you
by
or
child
bond
your
most
utter-
in
him
keeping
you!
the
to
power
mark
himself.
Traheme
my
fulfilled
uttermost,
a
strain
have
you
me
Dr.
"
life, while
when
is left
one
his
save
"
159
pledge?
though
"
GODDESS"
put
(Pause)
restraint
no
Choose,
upon
dear
my
choose!
The
subdued
stilled
of
murmur
crowd
the
is suddenly
below
and
believe
can
voice, with
springs
With
she
Then
ears.
sob
she
The
says,
in
low
(She
"Aeroplanes!
of relief:
shriek)
aeroplanes !
with
Basil!
aeroplanes!
' '
rush
of
sort
up
The
Basil !
her
that
aside
thrusts
the
incoming
priests
runs
I didn't
think
the
he
room.
had
The
it in him.
".
.
Now
of
one
the
has
machines
landed
on
the
parade
is
Cardew
flanking the palace and Lieutenant
release
of
the
immediate
the
demanding
prisoners,
the place and
threat of bombing
blowing the Raja
on
and most
The
of his people into kingdom
Raja
come.
ground
is still slow
explodes
surrender.
to
with
distant
One
roar.
bomb
is released
second
and
falls, much
BEST
THE
i6o
OP
PLAYS
1920-1921
comrades
palace. "Your
yonder
up
of my
doubt
subjects
massacre
quite a number
can
no
but
when
brave
their
they've
exploit!
spent
a
if
thvmderbolts,
they'lljust have to fly away
again
the
to
nearer
"
"
"
they
In
can.
that
case,
escort
Does
is
there
me
that
bluff, Lieutenant
your
him
pointing
remonstrances,
Cardew."
The
hesitates
Raja
proceeds
"My
priests, however,
idol
the
to
for
in
tion.
detona-
the
fall
ble
volu-
ground.
back-
and
moment
"
prospect
shattering
say?
you
the
and
to
priests rush
Raja
up
in panic-stricken supplication, with
"The
before
temple,
wiU
abode.
last
falls,and
bomb
this
on
friends
your
my
I call
you?
tlurd
and
to
"
drop
may
you
in fragments
allure
bomb
then
"
superstitious dread
of these
of the Great
Roc.
They fear injury to
eggs
For
the
Sacred
Image.
myself, I am
always averse
from
bloodshed.
You
if you
please, signal to
may,
commander
squadron
your
have
of
acceptance
my
your
terms."
Lieutenant
Major
Crespin
be
escort
Raja
will
here
It
hope
not
here
other
Homburg
at
Ah,
here
we
remains
in
is the
Monte
end.
better
Perhaps
to
Crespin
"
have
my
that
an
order)
{To
Lucilla
renew
exile.
that
and
I shall
Perhaps
and
escort
Tra-
to
me
The
talk
we
over
have
to
meet
may
old
times.
escort.
Good-by,
"
an
foresee
Carlo
and
of
crowd.
day
plainly
kings
or
for
one
{The
Raja
{Gives
may
the
body
the
him
to
moment.
only
the
join
in
that
over
through
Certainly.
herne)
"
demands
titmed
be
furnished
"
be
guest.
oh,
Cardew
escort
dear
loved
and
to
the
formed
at
I lament
lady.
hasty;
was
love
has
but,
lost,"
children
door.)
the
major's
"
know,
you
etc.
the
And
oh
"
'Tis
Mrs.
looking
balcony,
takes
"Well,
nuisance."
at
door,
the
from
back
and
priests
"The
puff,
and
"
others
the
all
are
cigarette
at
the
on
Raja
The
aeroplane.
lights
clustered
turns
brazier,
the
says:
she'd
well
i6i
GODDESS"
GREEN
"THE
probably
have
beeii
damned
"LILIOM"
is
"LILIOM"
been
recently
years
ago
scored
known
to
first
or
the
to
do
years
have
the
threatened
so
night
of
enthusiastic,
auditors
the
play
April
20,
confessed
first
audiences
which
the
pleased
justified
fair
Theater
and
the
transfer
Budapest.
commercial
success
play
162
promise
Garrick
Theater
generally
was
of
as
its
did
was
of
venture
the
early
those
public
however,
the
of
Theater
particular
from
The
various
The
good
puzzled
The
caters,
the
it.
the
cess
suc-
matter
times
reception
Guild
of
make
as
its
great.
percentage
themselves
in
been
at
Its
1.
and
America
to
given
was
192
though
first
drawn.
with-
then
was
produce
it.
of
performances
different
at
to
the
was
have
fair
Belasco
version
to
and
seasons
then
revived,
to
"The
enjoyed
which
and
was
best
some
thirty-odd
brought
ago,
however,
and
it
war
first
stir
Budapest
reported
was
managers
Guild,
in
first
of
author
American
of
the
Molnar
Ditrichstein,
own
twelve
time,
the
Rival,"
having
produced
Franz
the
of
sense
that
at
as
matter
is
seven
first
was,
Leo
produced
manuscript
was
the
considerable
his
overseas
in
author,
when
After
play
audiences
lasted
when
and
Phantom
1914,
"Liliom"
new
created
Prologue
Molnar
It
its
presented
star,
six
"The
ia
success
not
American
and
back,
Frank
by
which
Devil,"
By
Budapest
and
Scenes
written.
in
failure
Seven
in
Legend
Garrick
to
greatly
soon
to
the
"LILIOM"
Theater,
Fulton
theatrical
The
which
is
163
the
nearer
of
center
the
district.
reveals
play
realisra.
Liliom
The
translation
of
curious
of the
Hungarian
"tough," is
particular value
"jollier" of the
or
barker
mixture
of
title,the name
term
meaning
in
amusement
an
fantasy and
being a free
"roughneck"
park, his
his
as
employer being his success
a
class who
girls of the servant
younger
the
attracted
which
he
to
are
merry-go-round
over
of the park is established
presides. The
atmosphere
in a prologue showing
various
and
side shows,
booths
and the play proper
in another
section of the park
opens
the
reservation.
Marie
and
amusement
just outside
and
Julie have been riding on Liliom's merry-go-round
have
attracted
the
attention
of
Mrs.
the
Muskat,
them
from
the
proprietress. She has followed
away
carrousel
continue
started
the
to
was
quarrel which
when
she
invited
them
leave.
She
is particularly
to
to
"
angry
the
with
in
on
her
there
who
things
some
are
lets Liliom
and
put his
stay
she
carrousel;
fool with
around
arm
will not
she
her,
her
of
most
goings
too
particular,but
stand, and
girl
any
be
can't
doing
lets him
such
no
against her
lean
to
get
out
and
out.
as
more
his
or
Liliom's
inclined
Liliom
my
arm
Liliom
to
"
he
Muskat's
take
would
it around
add
treat
attitude
property,
common
the
to
the
girl.
some
of
anger
the
quarrel lightly,
irritates
him, and
he
is
Julie'spart.
Here's
around
was
to
serves
first
Mrs.
too,
usually kept
appearance
At
soon
that,
"
less;
woman.
but
arm
something
girl'swaist
new!
any
I'm
more!
not
to
put
I suppose
THE
i64
I'm
ask
to
another
touch
before
permission
your
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
girl!
Mrs.
Muskat
and
want
you
can
go
this
one
LiLioM
please
LiLioM
Mrs.
part
you
but
not
"
carrousel.
.
I'll ask
now
quick,
mouth
your
Muskat
LiLiOM
you
and
back
go
to
afternoon
every
haven't
And
sit
pigeon like
will
you,
just
the
to
panther's back,
the
bother
to
Come
price, Liliom
dares
that
around
come
want
on
Tryin'
anyhow?
you,
You
you
the
got
if anyone
tell
as
and
to
little
her?
often
as
do
she
a
touched
carrousel
you
did
fight with
because
What?
"
What
"
start
for
pay
you.
and
come
you
if
and
me.
Mrs.
Muskat
LiLioM
"
Julie
Muskat
out,
you're
too.
the
best
much
witch
out
In
reprobate!
!
Mister
you.
"
You
the
in
barker
In
already.
Liliom.
to
seem
What's
mistaken.
thrown
Liliom
Old
You
"
Thank
"
Mrs.
very
them
in my
And
my
What?
"
Shut
"
of
any
indecency
Muskat).
for
"
as
gms
many
carrousel.
your
you
no
as
mouth.
your
Muskat
want
you
like with
{to Mrs.
shut
to
touch
can
as
you
permit
"
Mrs.
to
as
"
often
as
far
as
You
"
reason
the
park?
fact, you
You're
think
can
I can't
can't?
throw
Because
Well,
you
consider
are
self
your-
discharged!
dear
that
case,
"
"
"
"LILIOM"
Mrs.
Muskat
the
to
go
is
Marie
"
jaw.
Julie
"
Now
son.
you
can
discharged,
and
(She exits.
back, either.
come
dark.)
(with great concern).
Don't
pity me or
you
don't
And
{To Julie)
{in alarm). I don't
"
LiLiOM
to
try
beginning
the
Very good, my
You're
Good-by.
"
devil.
needn't
you
i6s
It
to grow
Mister
Liliom
give you
pity me,
you
pity you,
I'll
"
slap in
either.
Mister
Liliom.
Liliom
You're
"
it in your
Muskat
has
face.
see
thrown
What
"
Liliom
to
It
returns
i
he
but
,
lost
to
locked
drink
beer
when
Marie
she
decides
when
away
that
if she
and
things.
is
happens
back
he
go
"
when
he
can
go.
they
where
with
is only sorry
for Liliom
to wait
comes
back,
much
longer
even
she
Liliom,
that
and
Marie
move.
lose her
exits.
dark.
During
the
in
distance
are
the
Julie
sit
on
the
he
and
"
though
will
job.
back
"Marie
comes
reluctantly, but
goes,
waits
night.' She
a
uncertainly, 'Good
says,
does
her.
if Julie will follow
to
Julie
see
out
girls
If the
there
the
to
She
stays
been
beer.
that
he
get
get myself
something
Julie is in love
isn't.
go
Liliom?
and
go
glass of
garden
she
to
have
Mister
all, I'll
them
that
to
hers.
of
conviction
knows
of
have
can
Madame
big enough
now.
see,
one
a
Julie declares
his job. But
send
she
if
knows
It is Marie's
do
suggestion
or
"
you
and
there
than
You
will
Muskat.
jobs
always
is Liliom's
carrousel
are
me
annoy
I'm
me.
First
of beer.
glass
"
Liliom
out,
at
will
Now?
"
are
Madame
of better
out
Julie
him
Look
pitying me.
that
thinking, now
You're
thrown
begging. Huh!
along without
liar, you
be
own
it has
Meantime
following
lighted
bench.
the
scene
one
From
by
one.
afar,
ment
mo-
not
quite
grown
gas-lamps
Liliom
very
and
far
and
faintly,
music
the
comes
PLAYS
BEST
THE
i66
of
OF
it
it breaks
are
noises
of
darker
until
the
show
booths.
end
toy
of
fitful
the
music
it
wind.
is
resumes
Blending
voices,
loud,
now
trumpet;
the
It
progressively
grows
There
scene.
spring iridescence
the
off, now
human
of
the
The
of
blare
soft; the
now
on
sounds
the
But
calliope.
1920-1921
is
in
glows
confused
the
no
light.
moon-
deep-blue
sky."
LiLiOM
Now
"
we're
discharged.
both
Have
.
had
you
supper?
your
Julie
No.
"
LiLioM
Want
"
Julie
something
eat
go
at
the
Garden?
No.
"
LiLioM
Anywhere
"
Julie
to
else?
No.
"
don't
(whistles softly, then). You
I've
this park very
often, do you?
only seen
LiLiOM
to
three
"
times.
Julie
Been
Oh
"
LiLioM
Julie
LiLioM
you
And
"
"
LiLiOM
than
that?
me?
see
Yes.
"
Julie
oftener
you
yes.
Did
"
here
come
"
did
know
you
Liliom?
was
told
They
me.
(whistles softly, then)
Have
got
you
sweetheart?
Julie
No.
"
LiLioM
Julie
never
"
had
haven't.
What
"
good mind
Julie
to
go
I've
"
LiLioM
have?
lie to
me.
If
had,
I'd
tell
you.
I've
one.
Liliom
Julie
Don't
"
"
"
Tell
an
away
never
that
awful
and
had
to
liar
leave
you
I've
are.
you
got
here.
one.
someone
(reproachfully). Why
else.
do
you
insist
"LILIOM"
LiLioM
time
Because
"
I asked
stayed here
you
You
to.
you
167
know
with
your
the
me
around,
way
first
you
do.
Liliom.
No, I don't, Mister
LiLioM
I suppose
don't
know
you'll tell me
you
like this, in the dark, alone
why you're sitting here
with
You
wouldn't
'a' stayed so
me
quick if you
hadn't
done
it before
with
soldier, maybe.
some
Julie
"
"
"
"
"
This
ain't
ready
anyhow?
Julie
the
to
so
Liliom
be
to
only
alone.
French
even
wanted
wouldn't
You
what
"
did
been
have
stay
you
left alone.
be
!
I don't
God, you're dumb
have
all the girls I want.
can
girlslike
girls. I
you,
could
for,
cooks
but
have
and
need
Not
governesses,
of them
if I
twenty
to.
Julie
I know,
"
Liliom
Julie
that's
been
was
wouldn't
you
Alone!
"
servant
time.
if it
stay
So
"
first
"
do
What
why
good to
not
so
Liliom
Julie
"
Liliom
"
with
girlsare in love
stayed. I stayed
Well, then
And
know?
But
you.
because
you've
me.
I don't
"
you
Liliom.
all the
That
"
Mister
want
what
you
can
go
home
if I go
away
to
home.
go
now.
and
leave
you
ting
sit-
here?
Julie
Two
"
did, I wotildn't
If you
policemen
them.
They
emerge
from
go
the
home.
shadows
and
eon-
then
Julie.
question Liliom, and
the girlagainst Liliom.
feels that
he should
One
warn
"We
he
tells her.
"He's
money,"
only after your
He
know
this fine fellow.
sillyservant
picks up you
Tomorrow
takes
what
they have.
girls and
money
If
to report him.
you'll probably be coming around
front
you
thank
do
I'll throw
out.
you
I'm
telling you
I'm
not
...
God,
but
what
kind
father,
your
of
fellow
THE
i68
is.
he
will take
home.
isn't
Liliom
is
said?
but
of him.
afraid
For
doesn't
she
kind
of him
know
doesn't
Julie
isn't.
she
thing
one
Far
away
the
LiLioM
LiLioM
and
"
Julie
going to
to
make
Because
"
marry
marry
and
"
gave
never
to.
money
is heard.
orchestra
be
to
I'm
never
be
much
about
difference
any
she
dance?
it would
so
worry
money
had
she
very
careful.
going
to marry.
character.
"
LiLioM
any
No,
she
the
what?
My
Why?
"
what
if she
it.
go
isn't afraid
hasn't
she
one
dance
I have
Of
"
Julie
of
to
No.
"
never
"
music
Want
"
Julie
need
sweetheart
she
to
girl is this
after
why
"
had
officer
want
of
"
for anyone
from
her
to take away
would
for
give it to him if he asked
had
This
afraid."
What
puzzled.
isn't she
Why
officer
afraid
be
if you're
afraid, and
home
you
Julie
Julie?
1920-1921
OF
But
PLAYS
needn't
You
.
"
BEST
if
that's
different.
Then
I've
to
got
was
I wouldn't
character.
my
you're married.
why
If I
It doesn't
But
take
I shan't
to
care
be
respectable girl.
Liliom
Suppose
"
to
were
to
say
you
I'll marry
"
you.
Julie
You?
"
LiLioM
Julie
Liliom
like
would
Julie
if I died
what
Liliom
that
"
and
Mister
it?
You're
you're afraid.
Liliom.
don't
pay
said.
wouldn't
dare
to
marry
anyone
you?
make
for
he
you
I know
"
it wouldn't
"
to
not,
doesn't
you,
officer said
I'm
But
"
me,
the
No,
"
attention
any
frightens
of what
thinking
me
That
"
that
"
that
difference
any
if I loved
"
to
me
what
anyone
he
"
"
even
it.
But
is,
"
wouldn't
you
eh
"
if you
marry
loved
rough
a
me
"
guy
like
"LILIOM"
Julie
Yes,
"
would
169
if
"
loved
Mister
you,
Liliom.
LiLiOM
you?
go
(whispers).Well
"
that
"
home
me.
now
Julie
I think
"
"
lightercrosses
Liliom
Julie
"
"
Liliom
"
Liliom
is go
asleep.
that
a
awhile.)
low-down
good-for-
silent
are
even
of himself.
man
"
lamp
and
"
you?
Then
"
all be
it from
Julie
(They
"
make
can
"
they'd
out?
Certainly.
"
Liliom
late
Locked
"
Julie
nothing
It's too
"
Liliom
do
love
"
then?
Julie
took
don't
you
didn't
just said
Well, why don't you
you
"
could
you
back
her
to
Muskat
that
"
it, that's
all.
briefsilence). All
{afteranother
"
take
woman
I have
"
to
she'll be
I'll be earning my
back
then
glad to get me
wages
darker
about
them.)
again. {The twilightfolds
to her
{very softly). Don't
Julie
go back
"
"
"
Liliom
Julie
Liliom
Julie
silent.
to
scene
HoUunder,
too
"
them
brings
I asked
minute
"
acacia
blossoms
to the
"
bench.)
down.
before the
who,
{They are
curtain falls.)
II
"dilapidated
Julie's aunt,
here.
around
long pause
is the
the
Scene
The
trees
"
knows,
them, too
acacias
wind
is
her
back
me
driftdown
The
There
lot of acacia
she
"
White
"
"
take
smell
can
blossoms
back
go
why
I
"
are
She'd
"
I know
Julie
{Some
Don't
"
Liliom
her.
There
"
"
with
hovel"
of
her
son,
Mother
runs
BEST
THE
I70
PLAYS
photographer's "studio"
Liliom
park. Here
for two
months.
them.
Liliom
in
fact.
willing
who
of
for
firewood.
largely
her
could.
she
because
and
he
does
at
all,
never
HoUunder,
work
and
widow's
last
old
the
wUl
crone's
work
decent
is
mumbling
defend
would
not
look
to
all.
at
if
LUiom
But
not
He
learned
never
trade,
just
can't
and
go
be
day
laborer
see,
you
he
so
...
"
just
nothing.
Julie
"
Julie
That
No.
"
Marie
"
won't
ask
him
Monday
he hit
me.
Marie
Julie
"
Julie
"
strained
"
to
but
he
work
yet?
left.
you
at
won't
maid
new
the
tell
carrousel,
me
"
Last
back?
Why
don't
want
would.
you
leave
him?
to.
I'd
leave
him.
{There
is
silence.)
Hollunder
Mother
can
back
hit him
you
since
three
why,
I don't
"
Marie
go
got
No.
"
Marie
Did
Breiers
the
had
They've
He
"
right.
ain't
Have
either.
take
been
but
won't
ashamed
Julie
he
to
is lazy.
"
Marie
He
be
benefit.
True,
he
Julie
to
has
work
old
poor
back
she
Mother
with
A
cheerfully enough.
all day resting his
lying around
He'll
called, and
has
for
do
up
that
use
Hving
well
go
to
herself; "he
to
to
something,
it," mumbles
he'll
going
refused
has
ment
amuse-
been
though
wanting
talking
to
steal, but
won't
bit
always
given
is
he
"He's
work
been
not
the
have
repeatedly
He
times.
to
have
of
fringe
Muskat,
Mrs.
1920-1921
Julie
and
refused
has
many
him
after
the
on
Things
job with
old
his
OF
play cards,
money
from
all
poor
"LILIOM"
their
turn
heads
the
171
other
way.
The
the
soup?
carpenter
was
here.
Julie
Is that
"
Hollunder
Mother
There's
of this and
out
been
here.
Julie
Send
"
"
jealous
fight, he
Ought to be
let him
now.
again
will get
little
poor
he
as
back
come
vagabond
Oh, he's ready enough
of himself!
And
pleases.
that!
like
girl
police just
(Stillscolding she
the
He's
"
he
gentle
Marie
And
"
Julie
that night
the
on
something
sat
you
and
comes
beats
likes
he
just
one.
together
bench
the
on
then.
was
gentle.
he
got wild
he
afterward
got wild
he
bench
was
...
sometimes,
there
bad
he
and
really bad.
Afterward
"
you,
whatever
do
can
night
Yes, he
"
support
He's
not
That
"
was
Julie
you
marry
you.?
doesn't
Liliom.
he's
Marie
to
"
Liliom
thinks
he
Julie
don't
Because
"
because
wants
carpenter
Why
"
Marie
stands
outside
Yes.
"
Julie
now,
I'll
Hollunder,
that
fight.
Strike
doing
"
Marie
he
"
only
know
you
ashamed
"
Julie
"
he's
back.)
at
"
her
fifth time
waiting
He'll
"
thing
is.
on
go
Marie
you
money,
take
to
away.
there'll be
and
He's
"
him
first
to
exits
children, but
don't
bother. Aunt
Hollunder
Mother
the
is the
two
Hollunder
Julie
wants
This
her.
and
"
hair,
myself.
and
has
Please
Mother
children
He
here.
was
lots of
handsome,
marry
He
"
carpenter
business.
good paying
The
^-
man
respectable
and
for
water
very
gentle.
listens
over
him
"
and
music
But
sometimes.
gentle.
After
the
to
"
again.
supper,
of the
he is
He's
gentle
when
he
carrousel,
gentle.
THE
172
Marie
He
"
and
ahead
Does
"
Julie
he
and
ful
gets thoughtstraight
stare
eyes?
unhappy
exactly. He's
he
That's
really why
Into
"
your
"
Marie
because
Julie
"
Julie
Mrs.
Ficsur
he
That,
him
can
do.
like to
And
He
know.
better
again,
off
or
its
carrousel.
It's
cigars and
tell you
used
to
will you
LiLiOM
belong
dear
not
that
"
the
Muskat
he?
expects
lady would
She'd
probably
girl. The
be
"
marry
offer is
happy at
pretty girlsand beer
been
an
easy
the
and
I'll
one.
and
my
to
and
Liliom.
to
always
back
come
"
servant
"
I'll
come?
"
She's
girl again.
servant
decide
music
what
be
to
just see
leaving Julie.
carrousel
She'd
him.
great life
doesn't
Mrs.
The
You've
"
he
life without
temptations
Muskat
friends
Jtilie,doesn't
without
LiUom
induce
his
another
not?
and
easily interested.
recently with a chap
up
his old
beats
back
go
without
Mrs.
for
why
Beats
you
ruiSan
to
try
Sparrow,"
to
on
me
no.
at
to
back
go
hit
he is not
taken
and
"
he
"
to
But
"the
"
Oh
again
has
he
because
you?
carrousel.
thing
named
hurt
comes
the
to
one
his mind
on
hitting
the
working,
{veryeagerly).
"
for
reason
isn't
he
Muskat
return
fine
It preys
Did he
"
Marie
For
That's
"
his wife
on
1920-1921
of him.
Not
Julie
isn't
working.
Monday.
not
say
quiet,
OF
anything?
He
anything.
his big eyes
say
doesn't
very
Marie
lot
PLAYS
BEST
that
living with
needn't
her
even
But
"
kind.
but
make
if I do
any
go
"
She'd
for
my
difference.
back
to
be
never
my
part
"
I
art
can
"
if I
go
"LILIOM"
Mrs.
Muskat
LiLioM
What's
"
Mrs.
Muskat
I suppose
that
know
you
the
think
night.
laugh themselves
Mrs.
flatter
sick
Muskat
all the
I know
"
heard
ever
home
When
married
to
be
man
pleased
wife
your
people found
to
every
they'd
out
"
what
want.
you
(refuses to
"
of
girlswould
running
were
It's ridiculous
LiLioM
matter?
Who
"
you
"
God!
My
"
173
gaze).
his
meet
You
yourself.
LiLiOM
You'll
"
Mrs.
Muskat
"
his
head).
fore-
Yes.
LiLiOM
"
I'm
in this house.
happy
not
Muskat
"
"
"
Mrs.
Muskat
who
widower,
LiLioM
"
old
The
"
I know
there
says
woman
is
penter,
car-
"
I know
"
"
{re-entering). Liliom,
Julie
have
something to tell you.
Liliom
All right.
I've been
wanting to
Julie
was
going to tell you yesterday
before
"
forget
"
"
"
tell you
in fact, I
"
"
Liliom
Julie
in
"
"
But
"
it wUl
Liliom
"
Liliom
Julie
Liliom
"
Get
But
"
"
take
Don't
It'll
"
I must
only
talking business
Julie
ahead.
Go
Will
see
you
and
only
out
you
take
6f here,
get
if
"
Here
am
"
minute.
or
"
"
you'll come
busy now?
I'm
interrupt with
I tell you
you
alone
tell you
minute.
of here?
minute
"
THE
174
Julie
"
Julie
Muskat
and
the
and
I'll go out
awhile
showcase
answer.
look
at
(She
exits
You
can
"
of
that?
Now
look
hit
start
photographs
back
come
later
if you
afraid of you
for
not
I told
like
again
me
I'm
anyone.
the
at
don't
in
your
back.)
at
like that.
me
afraid
1920-1921
(rises, too).
"
fighting.
Julie
OP
No.
"
Mrs.
PLAYS
(courageously). No.
{rising). What's
"
LiLioM
BEST
I had
you
don't
"
I'm
not
...
something
tell
to
you.
LiLiOM
Julie
drmk
Well,
"
I can't
"
No.
"
I'll have
told
LiLioM
asked
quick.
quick. Why
"
don't
you
time
the
By
wanted
you
tell me?
to
drunk
you've
coffee
your
you.
sips it).
head
my
Well?
ached
and
"
you
"
LiLiOM
Yes
"
"
Well
"
LiLiOM
But
.
headaches
what
from
wanted
you
came
that's
"
it is
"
sick?
you
No.
"
see
you
"
Are
"
Julie
what
Yesterday
"
me
Julie
so
"
Julie
tell you
Is that
"
Julie
it
coffee?
your
LiLiOM
with
out
and
"
know
to
said
you
what
my
seemed
"
changed.
LiLiOM
Did
"
I've
Julie
It's something
"
tell
to
I'm
not
thing
but
"
I ?
been
the
because
"
carpenter.
"
sooner
it's
No.
carpenter?
it's awfully
"
entirely different
know
to
you'll have
bit scared
I guess
I meant
what?
The
or
hard
later
"
perfectly natural
"
LiLioM
Julie
"
(put
When
"
the
"
coffeecup
when
on
man
have
the
and
together.
Liliom
Julie
"
"
Yes.
I'm
going
to
baby.
table).
a
woman
What?
"
live
"LILIOM"
For
Then
Liliom
moment
he
by the prospect.
Joyfiillyhe proclaims the fact to
Sparrow, and is disgusted at the latter's
lot of
of his
help him
through
"
Aimt
of the
himself
cushion.
him
he
dismisses
he
window,
shouts
the
at
curtain
and
him
with
The
the
back
and
has
soundness
than
of
either
consultation
his
now
as
break
to
into
the
face
comes
in
to
over
she
goes
standing in
remains
the
the
on
the
of the
droning
III
thieves'
to
had
to
song.
of
Liliom
more
"
before.
the
afternoon.
same
convince
get inoney
to
is danger
They
and
details
of their
being
The
Sparrow
are
the
money
in
close
quite jovial.
overheard
is
they
teaching
his prot^g^.
pretty lad,
lookout, my
The
dairm
trail;
on
police are
your
had
nicest
The
ever
girl you
and
commenced
to weep
Has
waU;
now
"Lookout,
farHe
his
Then
listeningto
time
scheme
ever
there
the
overtops
moment,
had
had
Whenever
sofa,
falls.
Hollunder
Sparrow
the
on
father."
buries
shawl.
Scene
Again
!"
baby
addressing
call
to
sofa
and
out
be
to
carrousel
Holltmder:
that
if
as
to
one
turns
jumps
voice
going
him
covers
the
the
needs
is the
and
in
the
on
Curtly
Julie watches
and
organ
Sparrow
all
He
Muskat.
the
the
to
organ,
"I'm
carrousel,
throws
goes
Mrs.
for
once
and
Suddenly,
out.
droning
to
settles
joyfully
the mumbling
Mother
Julie'sgoing to have
to
Hollunder
looks
back
Sparrow
door
he
It
"
that.
the
the
"Then
off
now
get
and
queen
going
money
it.
of
acceptance
question
is stunned
is thrilled.
175
it
PLAYS
BEST
THE
176
here
Lookout,
damn
police,
The
damn
police.
here
Lookout,
They'll
get
Julie, troubled
comes
and
the
damn
police,
the
danm
police
time."
every
you
and
out
chance
to
flits in
tmeasy,
Finally the
house.
conies
The
1920-1921
OF
has
Sparrow
of the
outline
The
cashier of a certain leather factory carries
plan.
kronen.
to
16,000
pa3rroll amounting
Every
a
he goes
alone.
route, and
Saturday he takes the same
his
It will
be
passes
certain
and
stick
Liliom
he
"he
doesn't
without
peculiar
but
"
when
of
most
be
killed."
it's
done, do
Does
Sparrow,
the
up
money
cashiers
these
are
right
start
we
skull.
off
America?
"
FicsuR
That's
dig it
LiLiOM
We
usual
Three
In
you
after
six
the
sixth
months
we'll
before
to
touch
six months
Then
"
say
you
livingjust
on
go
don't
you
"
"
able
And
for
months.
month
then?
Then
more
FicsuR
time.
money
again.
"
LiLioM
the
bury
What
"
FicsuR
be
up
then?
What
"
the
months
No.
"
Liliom
to
And
"
FicsuR
we
killed
the
give
can
his
man.
admits
can
other
in
killingthe
he
as
ment,
embank-
the
smash
or
of
He
they'd rather
"
LiLioM
for
to
railroad
guard
"No,"
be.
him,
accost
the
his
idea
killed.
have
being
to
ribs
his
like the
be
to
them
is off
he
between
doesn't
have
of
one
lonely spot by
when
knife
for
easy
the
take
the
heller
baby
the
time
saved
you'll
up
yotir
up
and
of the
will be
baby
for six
usual
as
money.
bom.
with
to
work
wages
to
go
America.
LiLiOM
"
Which
of
us
goes
talks
to
too.
us,
him?
so
as
get
to
"LILIOM"
FicsuR
the
One
"
other
you'd
with
of
talks
with
do.
rather
talks
us
LiLiOM
his
hear
you
listens.
What
I say to him?
You
say
do
FicsuR
take
you
policeman
he has only
Liliom
kitchen
knife
they
is to
sneak
she
he
turns
dreams,"
FicsuR
Liliom
"
"
FicsuR
Liliom
"
FicsuR
"
cuse
"Ex-
and
"
him
suspiciously,
photograph taken.
into
the
knife
house
has
But
Liliom
is still worried.
to
refraia
murmurs,
get
they
him.
unnerve
thieves'
the
And
"At
are
sight
The
of
victim's
knife, and
serves
theit
and
slit the
to
the
with
on
go
LUiom
when
she
in
night,
comes
back
"
then?"
His
ghost
Why
not?
Jew's
Well
"
him
stuck
Now
he
will I do
and,
start.
while
swords.
"
free to
are
big sharp
have
what
him
to
continues)
him
to
eye
his
of
my
of
Liliom
I'll have
to
and
with.
is gone
rattle
the time?
They
come
"
song
talk
"
enters.
is gone,
plans.
time
knife
your
the
good evening
that
By
"
to
you
"
pause,
tell me
you
then
what?
And
"
FicsuR
ready
which
on
After
sir; can
LiLioM
throat
"
he
what
like
(FicsuR
Soon
Depends
and
that?
Outside
"
but
his mouth
What?
"
LiLiOM
with
knife.
Do
"
FicsuR
then
him
to
mouth.
your
me,
177
won't
ghost
then
"
never
don't
afterward
{impatiently).
What
back.
come
never
come
back.
"
do
you
mean
"
afterward?
Liliom
"
the Lord
In
the
God
next
"
what
world
"
'11 1 say
when
then?
come
up
fore
be-
FicsuR
PLAYS
BEST
THE
178
will
like of you
The
"
1920-1921
OF
never
come
before
up
Him.
LiLiOM
"
FicsuR
"
Why
not?
Have
you
ever
before
up
come
the
high
court?
LiLIOM
No.
"
FicsuR
kind
Our
"
magistrate
and
"
comes
highest we
the
before
up
police
the
criminal
get is the
ever
court.
LiLiOM
Will
"
it be
the
the
same.
same
as
Just
police magistrate,
FicsuR
LiLioM
"
FicsuR
the
LiLioM
rich
"
FicsuR
the
next
"
We'll
did
we
world?
next
come
in
before
up
world.
this
police magistrate?
Sure.
"
For
court.
For
"
in the
same
us
For
people
poor
folks
us?
For
us,
there'll
be
and
lots
of
but
the
heavenly
police magistrate.
"
For
angels.
there's
son,
my
folks
only
"
fine music
"
For
world
rich
the
us
"
only justice.
justice, yes,
justice there
In
nothing
where
there's
be
must
justice. And
there're
where
trates,
police magistrates; and
police magispeople like us get
LiLioM
Good
{interrupting)
evening. Excuse
"
"
me,
sir, can
his
heart.)
you
FicsuR
LiLioM
"
at
slow
What
"
the
me
do
is
Put
sky)
it
on
It's
{Lays
time?
the
put
you
heart
My
"
FicsuR
out
tell
the
time
other
we
hand
your
jumping
his hand
"
side
started
for?
there
under
knife.
the
{Looks
then.
"
over
we'll
walk
"
LiLiOM
FicsuR
Before
It's too
"
"
Come
they
can
early.
on.
get
away
She
to
think
"
with
is
go.
of.
an
"LILIOM"
offer of work
coming
puts
some
beer
the
have
to
her
for
their
aside.
wine
or
"
clenches
his
Now
as
he
stay
No
to
brushes
is
for
She
for
get him
walk
he'll
of the
are
Liliom
will
him
out
has
with
He
"
way.
missed
didn't
knife?
for
pose
their
The
song.
the railroad
an
under
kitchen
"What
her
pictures.
intended
can't
They
tries to
She
is heard
use
conquer
refrain
the
falls.
IV
embankment.
arch
it.
and
curtain
Scene
the
take
Marie
thieves'
Through
going
stop
her
Liliom
stire
to
tears.
At
Roughly
if she
"
he's
"
tries
her.
have
come
of the
fist and
Julie
understand
her
he
husband
her
pictiorestaken.
she
arouses
would
have
If
and
they are
after
Hopelessly Julie gazes
gone.
the
they disappear down
Mother
street.
HoUunder
knife.
Marie
Won't
Sparrow.
them
Liliom.
179
Dusk
the
tracks
has
the
begun
fields
on
to
the
fall.
skirts
out-
of the
Overhead
city can be seen.
are
strung the
wires that "the Jews talk through," as Liliom
expresses
it. But
the
The
him.
Jews don't
Sparrow corrects
talk
they telegraph.
Again the would-be
men
highwayrehearse
the
about
to
play.
tragedy they are
Liliom
is to
the
cashier.
"Good
accost
evening.
is it?"
Excuse
time
And
while
the
sir; what
me,
victim
is reaching for his watch
is to stab
the Sparrow
"
him.
But
the
cashier
doesn't
The
Sparrow suggests
play, and the Sparrow
last
heller.
Sparrow
from
agrees
Liliom's
He
to
play
him
of
the
"
Vengt
Soon
cheats.
trust
share
of
game
cannot
Liliom
come.
"
any
and
sixteen
et
Liliom
is
un."
has
They
lost his
But
more.
deduct
nervous.
his
thousand
the
winnings
kronen
BEST
THE
i8o
they
are
most
luck
take
to
the
he
taken
they expect
suddenly
is
"He
of
The
Sparrow
Liliom's
always
share
of
when
arch.
red-bearded
robust,
the
tinues.
con-
game
fight threatens,
in the
appears
strong,
last
the
has
"Whoever
money."
The
again.
make.
to
cashier
the
most
wins
has
1920-1921
OF
cashier.
the
Sparrow
Now
haul
the
from
will have
The
wins.
PLAYS
about
Jew
Excuse
me,
The
The
sir, can
tell
you
the
me
time?
..."
Sparrow
cashier
forcing him
revolver
from
Liliom's
breast.
LiNZMAN
(the cashier, in
voice). It is
low, even
twenty-five minutes
{Looks ironically down
past six.
It's lucky I grabbed
at
hand
with
the
the
Ficsur)
knife
of the
instead
other
{Looks appraisingly
one.
fine birds!
to the other) Two
from one
{To Ficsur)
Rothschild
has more
luck than
I'd
{To Liliom)
you.
advise
to keep nice and
make
quiet. If you
one
you
you'll get two bullets in you.
move,
Just look into the
barrel.
"
You'll
little
some
see
things
in
there, made
of
lead.
Ficsur
LiNZMAN
holds
Oh
me
me
I didn't
go.
do
the
{mockingly shakes
this?
What
knife). And
"
the
I know.
yes,
pocket,
Let
"
and
for my
Liliom
LiNZMAN
You
error.
But
"
"
Yes,
beg
I
"
my
your
pardon,
son,
which
hand
do
still
call this?
you
thought I had an
to peel it. That's
wanted
you
anything
apple
it.
in my
Forgive
sir.
"
know.
It's
so
simple.
"LILIOM"
only asked
You
five minutes
FicsuR
after
Let
"
anjrthing to
LiNZMAN
"
honorable
the
you.
In
third
honorable
go,
the
In
first
have
place,
said
We
sir.
second
the
could
you
it is.
time
six.
us
sir.
money,
what
me
I8X
didn't
I'm
son,
my
place, for
Your
not
the
Excellency
it very
hard
an
same
But
in
off
by
beg
to
do
flatteringme.
LiLiOM
But
"
LiNZMAN
afraid.
have
behind
Look
shoot
to
behind
Look
"
reallydidn't
"
you,
but
you,
anything to
boy. Don't
my
don't
run
(Liliom
down.
you
do
I'll
head
his
turns
{To
"
"
there?
Two.
"
LiNZMAN
LiLioM
be
or
away
Who's
slowly around)
coming up there?
still or
hold
LiLioM
You
{to Ficsur).
policemen are
LiLiOM, teasingly) How
many
LiLiOM
you.
And
"
what
the
are
policemen sittingon
Horses.
"
LiNZMAN
which
And
"
faster,
run
can
horse
or
man?
Liliom
"
LiN2MAN
horse.
There,
"
{Laughs)
pair of highway robbers.
Just today I had to put
now.
away
if I
even
like
From
a
notice,
factory,
nice
bit
But
come
of
now
didn't
quicker,
I?
not
will
Did
direction
I
I
When
heller.
you?
This
frees
himself
luck.
And
four
pen
hap-
you
from?
came
there
went
Sixteen
me.
for
match
all.
isn't
with
money
"
is
get
unlucky
an
imagine worse
pocket.
pistol in my
what
oxen,
the
crowns!
Hey,
you
to
I can't
that
even
such
saw
never
Linzman
old
"
But
you.
to
had
hadn't
be hard
It would
see.
you
thousand
pretty strong.
Suddenly
wrench
and
the
darts
Sparrow
rapidly
away.
Liliom
with
makes
mighty
a
dash
for
embankment.
arrive.
For
Then
he
"You
his
of
of
the
the
reporting
made
"a
As
top
as
stands
he
the
defiantly.
there,
falls
his
under
and
the
policemen
the
from
of
top
coat.
thrusts
the
knife
rolls
down
the
he
embankment.
that
his
Soon
follows.
wounded
the
Policeman
Hey,
"
Policeman
First
to
has
man
voice
is
apparently
job of it."
good
Second
leads
shouts,
policemen
heard
First
he
breast.
1920-1921
knife
kitchen
get me!"
side
One
the
draws
into
other
he
moment
won't
deep
OF
stairway that
He
gains the
wooden
PLAYS
BEST
THE
82
What
"
Policeman
?
I
Shall
"
Stephan
knife
the
pull
out
of his
chest?
Second
Policeman
Better
"
not
he
or
bleed
may
to
death.
First
Policeman
Second
Policeman
First
Second
Second
First
First
be
"
year,
as
the
here.
at
best.
in
get gray
the
of
have
be
pay
new
than
worse
less than
made
You
The
pause.
ment.)
the embank-
the
good
we
could
to
work
service, and
they
ever
we
realize
that.
hard
year
slowly
you
yes.
Second
In
you
job
of
is
top
things
but
more
Government
thankless
after
get
the
lot
made
"
cigar?
{There
over
"
us
we
"
If the
It's
die
done
to
had.
appears
Policeman
schedule's
No.
"
Policeman
used
Got
"
Policeman
around
mosquitoes
Yes.
"
Policeman
of
Lot
"
Policeman
First
Yes.
"
Policeman
Stephan
"
the
Policeman
distance
curtain
"
is heard
falls.
That's
the
right.
bell
of
the
signal
tower
'LILIOM"
183
Scene
In the
photographic studio
Marie
and
HoUunder,
are
waiting. The
Mother
HoUunder
half hour
her
intended
She
Liliom.
at
He
clasps it.
Liliom
stretches
talk
can
and
It is not
dark
quite
little.
"
of the
his
young
attendants
looks
Julie,
and
ambulance
later.
stretcher
hand
and
her.
to
out
yet."
"
"
"
"
"
it's time
to
"
because
can't
on
to
see
fool with
Julie
"
kind
The
And
not
much
so
Muskat
jokes
but
"
do
"
Julie
"
"
you
"
learned
never
would
the
to
all
"
make?
carrousel
to
understand
"
no
"
you
home
see
be
be
I didn't
care.
It's
a
better
food
the
even
understand.
I couldn't
it would
not
"
right with
the
people
all
and
"
I don't
but
"
don't
but
mine
are
good
he's
"
caretaker
there
over
I'm
true
and
"
"
in
Yes.
"
Liliom
them
you
"
America
"
HoUinger
get along
can
tells
he
good
thought maybe
do that
"
caretaker
for
as
"
he tells
laugh when
give you
anything
ate
of
see
you
thing
every-
only because
always cried
"
You
I wasn't
"
Mrs.
"
you
crying.
up
beat
"
no
"
count
Yes.
"
Liliom
him.
you
going back
the girls. No, I spit on them
anyhow
enough
at
to
well
"
and, well,
what
"
owe
anyone
""
have
you
you
mad
was
account
trade
But
bear
my
then
"
everything
"
not
pay
"
I'm
I don't.
I
asking
forgiveness
if you like.
Tell the baby
not
"
"
"
don't
Julie
Tell
"
tell him
thought
"
I'll
think
you
Julie
if
Himself
let
wife
his
he's
who
lot
know
"
of
think
beat
and
that
am
Mrs.
him
teU
"
"
he?
won't
"
right.
was
mustn't
dumb.
right.
be
always
too.
to
same
Nobody's
You
me
right.
"
"
"
slowly
friend
seek
Mrs.
would
Muskat
to
The
Julie,who
like
to
of
doesn't
care.
force
myself
examination
and
"make
her
also, is sympathetic.
up" with
sympathy.
"Please
on
you,"
Marie
listens to them
She,
enters.
and
doctor
The
HoUunders
none
have
dies.
perfunctory
console
Muskat
girl will
trying
to
and
back
make
policeman
body and
depart.
the
yes
"
"
She
but
stops
hold
hand
tight.
come
Julie
my
all the time.
I'm holding it tight
still
I'm
going
Tighter,
tighter
Julie
Good-by.
sinks
dazedly.
you
child
"
God
"
"
her
Lord
"
first
the
asks
you
there
officer
an
the
you
you
"
"
"
Liliom
Do
Yes.
"
(Pauses)
Julie
the
right once,
right. It's so
was
LiLioM
And
believe
be
can
Julie
where
carpenter
him.
He'll
always
LiLioM
if it's
today.
of the
in front
here
If the
When
"
they
Julie
For
Yes.
LiLioM
Liliom
that's
"
police up
of the
up
down
marry
"
"
mustn't
God
Lord
"
come
like
father.
Julie
afraid
me
door.
the
his
boy
"
forgiveness.
If it's
the
see
but
"
"
not
not
""
at
be
I'll
tell him
"
America
now.
come
Him
see
I'm
"
they'll only
you
can
me
asking
not
good
much
wasn't
Yes.
"
LiLioM
I'm
Perhaps
girl
1920-1921
about
in
over
"
yours.
my
"
talk
ever
perhaps
of
baby
the
if you
"
"
affair
no
OF
Yes.
"
LiLioM
but
PLAYS
BEST
THE
84
Julie,
As
don't
she
says.
for
think
"I
"LILIOM"
stayed because
loved
him.
That's
together."
Now
table
her
Liliom's
stretcher, looks
into
ones
earth
on
ought
you," replies Julie.
with
near
only
thought
thank
is alone
the
are
why
"No,
she
the
on
two
we
i8s
dead.
head, sits
the
dead
on
face
man's
stick
to
we
She
who
edge
and
of the
caresses
tenderly.
it
Julie
hers
"
Sleep, Liliom,
"
never
told
even
they
"
explain
can't
to
you
dear
"
boy
understand
you
not
"
to
business
no
of
now
"
quick-tempered, rough,
sleep peacefully, Liliom
"
how
even
it's
"
but
"
bad,
you
"
sleep
you
feel
"
how
"
can't
I feel
even
you'd
"
but you
can't
hear
only laugh at me
me
more.
any
and reproach, yet with great
{Between tender moiherliness
love in her voice) It was
wicked
of you
to beat me
on
"
"
the
breast
You
now.
;
and
but
"
I love
"
"
treated
you
my
boy
is
told
never
reading
The
He
comes.
hand
Now
"After
but
music
The
"
in
boy
"
ashamed
was
Liliom
him.
herself
softly to
would
marriage
Liliom
sleep
"
offer
later
"
"No
both
"
use,
music
nearer.
carrousel, but
melody, too,
when
the
sympathy
"
it is time.
when
God
carpenter.
and
calls to her
into
the
look
and
house.
slinks
lies alone.
brief silence
gradually coming
of the
gone
of you
bad, bad
you
"
you're
wicked
was
away.
^
that
"
but
"
before
you
I love you.
Bible
the
Julie dismisses
be with
you."
that
"
face
sleep.
"
But
The
and
badly
me
carpenter
his
"
now
and
head
but
She
the
on
is the
is
heard, distant
It is very
much
at
first,
like
the
exalted.
is altered
THE
i86
and
BEST
contrapuntal
in
intertwined
doorway
Their
faces
the
to
pace
hats
have
They
dim
heavy
in
the
room.
violet
luminat
Ught ilheavenly police
the
are
are
and
grave
the other
a
stretcher,
conduct
to
come
white,
of the
above
faces."
with
black,
marble
From
right.
song
gloves, appear
slowly into the
stride
and
thieves'
in
black
stops in front
their
they
and
1920-1921
the
men
beardless,
are
One
benign.
of
Two
back
at
OF
measures
it.
and
PLAYS
Liliom
into
the
next
world.
The
Get
First
and
up
Second
The
First
when
with
come
The
that
(bends down,
"
die
they
shoulder).
slowly sits up.)
(Liliom
along.
These
{paternally).
"
Liliom's
us.
Come
"
touches
all their
people
difficulties
suppose
for
solved
are
them.
The
Second
{raising
"
simply by thrusting
it stop beating you
child
in her
The
womb
First
knife
his
sternly). That
heart
and
making
in your
leave
can
voice
wife
your
behind
with
"
It is not
simple as that.
The
Second
Such
things are not settled so easily.
The
First
Come
You
will have
to give
along.
of yourself.
We
accotmt
God's
an
are
police. {An
Liliom's
expression of glad relieflights upon
face. He
rises from the stretcher) Come.
"
as
"
"
The
easy
Second
as
The
them, then
face
mortals
as
"
stops
that.
Come.
and
looks
Your
Before
as
still
end
ring
of your
step
you,
end
there
too,
voice,
long
is much
"
the
the
as
be
as
Your
are
is the
to
of
is not
spoken.
sounded
so
ahead
walk
Remembered,
remembers
the
is
name
of your
glance, the
hand
and
how
your
of your
is left who
one
unended.
(Liliom starts to
The
at them).
is still remembered.
manner
don't
that.
First
abrupt
You
"
clasp
long as
matter
undone.
"LILIOM"
Until
with
The
Second
The
music
empty
by
the
are
so
which, in the
on
that
still
if it had
candle
dead.
are
you
be
"
arranged
is not
will not
you
"
stretcher,
as
The
the
Liliom
body
are
you
finished
187
lying.
The
followed
flickers
of silence
and
music
Liliom
and
quite
and
covers
that
sure
in the
out
There
darkness
bums
the
be
is
stage
which
the two
out.
goes
total
dies
back,
at
The
shadows,
cannot
one
exit
tance
dis-
policemen.
is
before
brief
the
terval
in-
curtain
falls.
Scene
whitewashed
"in
courtroom
ceilingless
room
one
leading to
the
other
of
which
from
that
there
region
of
the
the
heavenly
back
at
through which
by the celestial police,
to
entrance
escorted
which
through
VI
This, the
can
be
seen
inquiring
vista
beyond";
the
exits
are
either side,
on
purifying flames,
There
peace.
Liliom
and
the
is
an
is presently
grated window,
clouds.
of rose-tinted
discovers, is that
Liliom
of
part
the
trial of suicide
to
cases.
police court devoted
who
have
Here
Two
preceded him
"justice is done."
are
already seated on a bench in the center of the room.
One
is richly, the
other
They are
poorly dressed.
the
inclined
to
The
Police
patriarch,
be
first.
Jew
He
"
"
the
Magistrate,
enters.
cases."
Liliom
sociable, but
He
is, he
come
"forty-two,
says,
"Religion
Magistrate.
to
does
consider
richly dressed
of the
That
not
"Why
picious.
sus-
has
is surly and
interest
did you
man
day's
"yesteris called
married,
us
kill
here,"
and
rupts
inter-
yourself?
"
THE
i88'
'The
PLAYS
BEST
Man
Dressed
Richly
1920-1921
OP
On
"
of
account
my
debts.
The
Magistrate
What
"
did
good
do
you
on
earth?
Magistrate
The
ask
more
before
right
to
later.
like
you
The
if you
choose.
Dressed
Richly
The
Magistrate
there
"
Something
the
takes
to
down
there
l^t
have
you
someone?
tell
to
have
you
sir.
Yes,
who
excitement,
once
understand?
you
"
earth
to
that
you
Man
anything important
back
go
Do
He
" "
his
and
to
I advise
sunrise?
go
his haste
lawyer
was
"
Would
you:
"
"
that
discuss
we'll
Man
Dressed
Richly
The
done?
un-
Something
to
imdo?
The
Richly
The
Magistrate
Here
we
Richly
when
"
Oscar
kiss
bid
him
I didn't
good-by.
him
Then
would
soul.
please
yotmgest
myself
trust
of the
if you
"
my
"
here.
matter
affairs
the
"
house
the
"
not
"
son,
wake
to
liked
have
him
to
"
good-by.
The
You
Man
asleep.
was
"
and
"
left
do
only with
Dressed
debts
My
"
They
"
concerned
are
The
Man
Dressed
Magistrate
will take
Dr.
the
(To
"
back
Reich
Policeman).
Second
and
let him
Oscar.
When
Liliom's
rather
to
enough
long as
So
far
to
there
break
to
admit
that
he
If
he would
earth
the
he
that
he
head.
thinks
and
regrets
that
go
any
food
to
as
back
he
well
He
have
However,
he might
is concerned
baby coming,
he, too, is
like to
Sparrow's
as
is
to
is in heaven
he
refuses
knows
return
still is defiant.
he
being questioned,
resents
chance
is called
name
long
so
stay.
stubbornly
part of it. He
shelter, that
or
"LILIOM"
food
what
has
would
or
shelter.
or
that
know,
him?
The
Will
Magistrate
more.
you
I'll
"
that
were
LiLiOM
The
there,'
be
thing he
baby be a boy
one
bad
The
bear
to
The
"
it?
Why
ashamed
that
you
I couldn't
bad
to
her.
carrousel
that
I don't
bear
and
"
to
thing
know
how.
to
Should
her
The
"
there
weeping.
why
are
you
all of
ashamed?.
why I was
that's
to
back
go
with
his
sudden
talk
to
the
about
it happened,
there
have
"
(after an
never
her
The
Magistrate
LiLiOM
"
ashamed
you
Who's
do
along
came
and
"
couldn't
time
And
and
"
it wouldn't
when
I
"
"
house?
and
see
word?
"
steal
not
child; that
are
shoulders).
see
Ficsur
other
and
you
and
all the
Why
and
there
pistol
I didn't
and
want
playing cards
(Demanding justification) Maybe
out
Do
her?
his
see,
"
question yet.
you:
"
"
bear
of that
loved
You
work
Weeping.
(shrugs
But
baby
father?
time
couldn't
You
"
be
too.
get
"
you
LiLiOM
That,
all the
"
afraid
are
that
wife
bad
couldn't
Magistrate
say
it won't
father?
"
Julie
see
baby?
do
I ask
your
bad
Magistrate
LiLioM
the
yourself.
Yes.
"
And
for
husband?
Magistrate
"
Again
"
husband,
see
reached
deserted
bad
that
it?
see
you
"
LiLiOM
down
is
the
see
you
haven't
we
Magistrate
regret
shall
When
"
But
The
You
"
(excitedly). I'll
"
LiLioM
go
will not
There
however.
Magistrate
LiLiOM
"
with
he
as
girl?
The
to
long
so
do
to
like to
any
But
189
said
gone
be
to
was
wrong
nothing
was
out
to
put in prison.
to
steal
to
eat
in the
for
Julie?
(emphatically). Yes.
astounded
pause). The
that.
not
police
Magistrate
The
do
OF
that
loved
she
1920-1921
beat
You
"
because
her
beat
you
PLAYS
BEST
THE
I90
frail
poor,
How
you.
girl;
could
you
she
said
that?
LiLioM
this
couldn't
that
in
throat)
me
The
Magistrate
Are
then
"
if you
"
at
Magistrate
The
like
embarrassed
looks
"
and
"
the
anger
{points
here
to
his
sorry?
you
"
"no";
right
was
her.
LiLiOM
throat
it reached
"
"
she
got mad
I beat
then
and
"
other
because
and
"
until
"
each
and
"
her
answer
up
rose
said
and
with
argued
We
"
but
cannot
the word
mutter
I touched
her
slender
might say
ters,
{Falthe Magistrate.)
{confidently expectant). Are
you
"
"
sorry?
you
LiLiOM
{with
"
The
Magistrate
help
to
LiLiOM
"heavenly
Liliom's
his
while
This
man.
thirteen
that
earth
soul
of
wife
and
Kadar,
his
in
been
a
is
open
forced
to
he
is
the
anything.
ficult
dif-
be
and
clean
the
had
a
hearts
And
he
had
the
good
deed,"
of
will
be
children
The
you.
back
to
hole
in
upon
to
in the
his
"Stephen
the
announces
written
eternal
prove
returned
roof.
who
of
sentence
Finding
beating
rain
him
poorly dressed
a
mended
did
you
to
send
to
his
with
proceed
of the
case
all
summon
can
obliged
deed.
good
"what
the
help.
burned
done
have
any
just completed
purifying flames.
the
cottage
you
for
sorry
Liliom, it wiU
before
hears
children, he
door
is
is, he
has
has
Magistrate;
to
gladden
The
he
perform
to
roof
it
man
years
his
asking
not
As
case.
seat
not
you.
Magistrate
patience"
the
I'm
Lihom,
"
I'm
"
Soon
to
stare).
in
read
books
them.
light awaits
you."
The
poorly dressed
of kings. Still Liliom
man
passes
is not
on
into
impressed.
kingdom
"Any roofer
the
"LILIOM"
fix
can
roof," he
in
barker
Now
the
that
By
Liliom
time
burned
Liliom
boy
he
had
could
Liliom
then
For
the
teen
six-
crimson
fire.
will have
been
Magistrate's prophecy
back
sent
be
sixteen
for
earth
to
if he
"
by
"
old
years
test, and
something
in
be
to
sentence.
stubbornness
will
daughter
be
and
the
at
far the
It will be
remain
harder
so
his
how
does
pride
weep
will
show
shall
of him.
time
that
the
out
and
park."
is passing
Magistrate
years
"it's much
sneers;
amusement
an
191
and
single day to
has progressed.
should, if he
splendid for his child,
it
meets
good, something
he
as
"
But
the
Magistrate
Liliom.
see
Sixteen
will
you
think
of
that
up
here.
Guard
stands
The
First
Liliom
The
"
Guard
"
Guard
Liliom
The
(He
"
old
waits.)
(to the
goes
Please
"
"
disapprovingly.
to
do
be
exits
earth
from
for
heed
and
child.
your
opened to you
at
left. The
pause.)
{approaches Liliom). Come
the door at right;pulls open
you
can
is
softly). Say,
officer
"
want?
get
"
have
you
got
"
What?
{whispers).
Guard
(He
Guard,
What
"
shall
before
pass
Take
do
to
farewell,
you
returned
There
"
old
shall
door
attention.
Policeman
son.
my
The
at
day
deed
Liliom.
go,
bid
again.
me
which
depend
I'll
have
good
some
Now
you
before
up
will
On
along,
come
well
and
years
When
again.
you
Now
"
stares
"Then
at
his
cigarette.
him
and
his
head
softens.
He
shakes
expression
best'
THE
192
takes
Liliom
him
the
the
door.
The
glow
takes
his
of it is
his hand
with
living
are
later
years
in "a
uninclosed
plot
it blinds
his
Liliom
head
in.
and
and
he
covers
into
the
VII
Julie
and
daughter, Louise,
her
small, tumble-down
house
Before
ground.
of
open
streams
steps forward
he
Scene
Sixteen
light
bows
before
throws
falls.
curtain
The
Policeman
that
and
step backward
eyes
"
rose-colored
strong
so
and, crossing to
door
at right
gives
to
First
intense
An
1920-1921
over
gone
The
cigarette
light.
has
who
"
OF
his
from
cigarette
PLAYS
the
on
is
house
It
garden, inclosed
by a hip-high hedge."
in the garden a table
in spring and
Sunday
bare,
is
tiny
bright
a
is laid for
two.
It is while
Liliom
that
Julie and
Louise
and
two
the
are
at
their
midday meal
police appear at
heavenly
stands there
Liliom
slowly by.
and
alone
then
comes
slowly down
a
moment,
pauses
He
is
dressed
he
of the hedge.
at the opening
was
as
He
is very
the day of his death.
pale, but,otherwise
on
tmaltered.
to him.''
Julie, at the table, has her back
Louise
sits facing the audience.
back.
police pass
The
Liliom
addresses
answered
by Louise.
that
assumes
he
is "another
far, Liliom
admits,
glad
plate
stone
he
has
of the
the
by
But
and
He
beggar."
is very
tired.
Julie offers him.
he
of soup
side of the
road
and
eats
traveled
has
He
would
He
his
sits
be
on
and
soup,
a
as
He
questions Louise
concerning her father.
dead
girl tells him; he died in
a long time, the
eats
been
America,
bom.
cordially,and is as cordially
Julie does not turn arotmd, but
them
he
where
He
Julie
was
had
very
is inclined
gone
handsome
to
deny
to
work,
man,
the
before
and
child's
she
very
was
good.
statement
"LILIOM"
193
which
disappoints Liliom.
Surely she might let "the
little orphan"
that
of her
father.
much
poor
say
Liliom
himself
him
Besides, he knew
knew
be
to
not
In fact he was
handsome,
so
perhaps, nor so good.
of a bully. But
Of
something
a
pretty good sort.
he'd
And
he had
"even
fight anyone.
course,
once
"
hit
your
little mother."
poor
Julie
That's
"
Liliom
"
It's
true.
Aren't
Julie
avrful things about
"
shameless
the
liar.
impudence
Liliom
her
Eats
to
ashamed
you
to
father?
our
slander
I didn't
"
lie.
Get
and
soup
out
our
of
child
such
here, you
bread
and
has
dead
our
mean
tell the
"
"
^^
What
"
Liliom
Julie
".
So
"
No,
"
{To
.
he
didn't
never.
Louise)
hit you
He
was
Don't
always
speak
to
him
good
any
to
me.
more.
Don't
chase me
miss;
{toLouise).
away,
let me
in for just a minute
just for a minute
come
show
something pretty,
just long enough to let me
you
wonderful.
{Opens the gate) Miss, I've
something
{Takes from his pocket a big
something to give you.
is wrapped
red handkerchief in which
glitteringstar
a
looks furtivelyabout him
to make
He
sure
from heaven.
that the police are not watching)
Liliom
"
"
Louise
"
that
What's
"
"
Pst !
star
"
In
God's
name,
be
off with
you.
Louise
slams
good
the
or
"
something
good
do
to
got
good
"
"
her
out
Miss
right hand).
her
That's
head
Liliom
in
Julie
(He
at
up
stiddenly and
her
that the
so
astonishment.)
(Comes
"
looks
loudly.)
slap resounds
Mother!
who
(looks dazedly at Liliom,
dismayed, forlorn. Julie rises and looks
"
his
hand,
extended
Louise
bows
with
"
Get
"
LiLiOM
slaps
Miss
"
Louise
slowly).
them
to
over
What's
the
here?
matter
Louise
hand
(bewildered,
"
Mother
Liliom).
hard
"
didn't
hurt
touched
hand
hides
his head
her
looks
Julie
house
of
the
and
way
and
bread
with
me?
turns
who
and
not
doorway
the audience.
"
and
of
it
the
on
it
but
"
if he
as
not
leans
had
just
me
And
child.
her
don't
against
to
Louise
sends
the
stranger.
I took
Are
are
who
your
you
you?
came
soup
angry
at
angry
is stunned
she
Jesus, who
tired, beggar
your
"
raises
Lord
poor,
on
goes
second
Quickly she
again slowly to
struck
Julie
For
hungry
was
"
angry
me
off
eyes
"
Sulkily LUiom
of the
name
(her hand
ingly). Jesus protect
Julie
him.
(simply).
"
"
mother.
Julie.
at
and
In
"
jLiLiOM
long
her
recognition
the
hit
sound
caress
her
tenderly.
behind
and
he
"
the
like
was
take
not
man
heard
I
it
"
does
the
"
"
my
She
the
do
"
I've
"
out.
way
I'm
(She
off.
Be
you.
miss
please,
"
(pointing
"
LiLiOM
with
1920-1921
"
Louise
into
off
be
Miss
"
something
by
OF
gate.)
the
deed
PLAYS
Yes,
"
LiLioM
at
BEST
THE
194
(Liliom
it
"
goes
to
to
the
the
understand
"
"LILIOM"
Julie
Sit
dear,
down,
Louise
don't
Why
What
"
Julie
has
Nothing,
"
left.
The
Both
shake
both
seated
is
hands,
staring
table.
the
at
space).
into
eat, dear?
you
Louise
eating.
are
her
in
house).
gone
{They
head
her
the
of
out
conies
finish
he
Yes..
"
Louise,
we'll
Has
"
Julie
(Louise
Louise!
"
195
happened,
{The
child.
my
appear
outside.
First
Policeman
Liliom
off
slowly
deploring
and
deploringly
licemen
Po-
Heavenly
walks
makes
heads
their
mother?
at
gesture.
follow
Liliom
Julie
has
dear,
Mother
"
What
"
is
beggar
of
Louise
Louise
you
in
you
Mother
the
Julie
father
has
"
"
eating,
days, and
{There
Liliom.
"
tell
ever
anyone
and
then
me
has
"
hit
you
it
is
happened
ever
without
"
pause.)
hurting
least
Yes,
"
Nothing
father?
Your
"
bygone
me?
father.
My
"
child?
peacefully
of
tell
you
tell you,
to
were
talked
your
"
Julie
to
who
came
thought
there
We
happened.
won't
why
child.
my
has
It
happened
to
me,
too.
Louise
like
hard
Julie
beat
you
Near
of
his
It
"
real
"
is
loud
possible,
beat
and
you
at
that
possible
for
some
one
hard
and
to
hit
and
"
not
you
"
hurt
all ?
at
you
it
Is
"
you
dear
and
"
beat
that
you,
"
may
someone
and
not
hurt
all.
by
organ
an
organ
is heard.
grinder
The
has
curtain
stopped.
falls.
The
music
"MARY
in
not,
in
New
and
London,
its
to
as
following
and
mystery
Started
on
whimsical
much
in
i
of
who
"a
house
months,
has
its
because
lost
has
the
is
of
not
in
Otery,
of
sense
"an
hands
that
something
the
house
strange
had
an
ill
about
name
Mrs.
and
196
dream
is
they
than
empty
the
its
room
house
of
of
are
by
manor
sort
close
so
unfurnished
room
its
"
having
home
happy
people."
of
caretaker
long
is
more
fantastical;
indifferent,
enjoyment
its
East.
audiences
an
the
not
suggestion
great
the
in
is
dishonored
comfortable,
been
Mrs.
and
small
there
and
though
in
in
proved
seriousness
beginning
a
its
Barrie
even
it had
theme
of
its
by
of
bright
gentlefolks
serious
it
that
opinion
of
performances.
moderately
only
melancholy,
so
been
play
was
been
the
127
March,
than
S5rmpathy
floor
more
The
some
of
and
second
England,
once
is
of
run
West
dream
that
It has
the
all the
the
impressed
more
whimsies.
on
is
thought
as
charming
in
tour
treatment
the
to
It
it had
But
was
for
in
fantasy
that
extended
Rose"
"Mary
play;
much
it continued
an
sharper
Rose,"
division
entertainment.
as
attraction
popular
;
merits
was
foundly
pro-
week.
successful
Sir
but
"Mary
Christmas
definitely
as
there
found
drama,
Theater
York,
London,
mystifying
psychical
Empire
in
success
somewhat
impressive
the
Barrib
year's
Barrie's
M.
Acts
Three
M.
J.
its
FOLLOWING
reached
in
Play
By
James
ROSE"
Otery,
is anxious
dull
for
woman
ago."
There
if she
"as
to
conceal
knew
it,
"MARY
and
herself
was
sometimes
scared
197
frightened,like
little
ROSE"
by
the
who
one
been
haunts
that
presence
had
the
house."
She
is
premises,
the
engaged
now
showing
Australian
an
great
in
has
Australian
an
and
voice, manners
movements;
the sheep farms
and
the bush,"
knoTivn
interest
in it,however,
sentiment.
as
and
It
boy,
and
"set
off to
he
known
the
as
make
out
pounce
Robinson
upon
I had
remembers
where
to
apples
smaller
quite plain
smaller
do
has
just
Mrs.
entered
locked
and
investigate it
the
strange
know
Harry
got
on
"
so
her
at
attic
above,
left leads
the
is
It
sleep.
showing him
to
to
sofa
the
thing
some-
tion
imagina-
direction.
insists, and
It
been
"hasn't
human
being." It's
by any
Otery strongly advises him not to
has
the
But
is he
he
and
"
Mrs.
the
used
he
averse
she
further.
things
If it's true
right to
as
room,
anxious
more
door
furnish
re-
curtains
swimming."
of
sights or sounds
emanating from that
months
for
the
had
can
was
in
strange
empty
now
is
evidently
with
and
he
them
There
sort
ocean."
blue
behind
was
which
Otery
pictured
an
there
in
room
he
first lessons
my
stored,
were
room;
to
is
that
vaguely
Crusoe.
there
of twelve
age
blasted
were
than
lived
one
hide
to
his
His
rather
the
"there
I used
the
as
and
in
days.
had
the
on
room
"
old
he
at
away
from
tang
curiosity
that
his forttme
and
of
run
memory
window,
and
in the
one
recognizes the
"big room,"
it from
that
is
had
he
the
over
house
transpires later
that
Gradually
to
of the
something
man
young
"He
war.
to
heard
place is
she
more
and
about
seen
"haunted"
of
bottom
the
to
go
puts him
who
the
has
off
the
place.
better
it?
My
nicely
train's
I wonder
not
for
if you
an
hour
would
yet, and
give
me
we've
a
mug
BEST
THE
198
Not
of tea.
PLAYS
drink
it
1920-1921
mugful
where
why
we
cup;
OP
the
by
I hail from.
Otery
Mrs.
I should
Since
"
Otery
Mrs.
Harry
No,
such
make
meaning
to
Harry
into
go
said
you
Otery
with
It's
me!
See
she
be
may
can
back.
What
has
object
There's
she
lot
if
now
get
they
I'm
Well,
mine
of
haunts
an
becomes
if
and
for
ready
them
the
least
she
me
for
room.
The
is
door
vaguely
at
his
they
conscious
of
been
By
this
gather round
lad
my
had
all
'em
Mrs.
a
come
come.
Otery
fire in the
than
presence
ment
mo-
in the
mysterious
discussing,has slowly
walking through, and
back, leading
have
what
home.
with
fiu-ther
Reluctantly, and
warning,
He has lighted
leaves
Harry in the room.
draws the chair up to it. Less
grate, and
later he
in
she
so
Let
"
sort
prayers
thing that
tell
ghosts might
that
Harry
sarcastic)
ancestral
my
do
to
my
even
and
herself
knew
But
her back
brought
"
saying
"
It's
me.
of
you.
"
he
answer:
introduce
is to
uncanny
chair
to
relative
some
do
jugs!
tries
promise
ghost got
yotu*
(Her silence is
has
case
was
would.
your
isn't it ?
woman,
serious)
house?
{No
this
to
blazes
he is
of assent:
"
the
What
"
me.
locked.
I have
Unless
"
if I
you
me
made
You're
to.
up
I wouldn't
were
his tea
beats
covey
you're
room.
if you
it was
"
that
what
see
kitchen.
Prodigal got
though what
the
sure
about
that
Maybe
thought
Harry
"
"
Mrs.
fuss
the
to
drawing-room
a
Otery
down
I'm
no,
in the
day
Mrs.
Come
"
"
first
them
but
"
Harry
the
"
to
the
"MARY
sticking in
packing
ROSE"
in
case
199
the
of the
center
room.
it would
be better if he recovered
that ! But
Perhaps
strikes him
the thought
he reaches
fooHsh, even
as
as
for the kaife, and
he leaves it where
it is.
In a dazed
he
way
resumes
suggestion that
and
staring into
and
he is blotted
When
"as
the
the
homely
sight.
lightens the
thirty years
be"
to
it has
as
It is furnished
flames
hitherto
much
same
been
Morlaiid
"is
pleasantly
and
discuss
days
new
for
roof
on
the
cold
Mrs.
Morland
village clergyman.
who
his life
passes
in
being
months
the
advisability of putting
or
lady,
her
sense,
and
man
mixture
wife is
His
.
will
J. P., and
cowshed.
.
delightful little
and
neglected."
picttu-ed it and is
Mr.
the
and
warm
profitably
tenant's
of
type
"as
"
had
Harry
as
is revealed,
room
before
peopled now
by three persons,
(Harry's grandparents) and
Mr.
open
stage darkens
the
as
no
from
scene
it used
dull
is
of sunshine
and
very
shrewd
preserves,
undoubtedly the best
that
has
kept
viz.,her
her
husband.
.
clergyman,
and
they
quite
quarrels
hobby,
close
are
momentary
their
unlike
and
Mr.
friends
about
each
Morland
in
appearance,
when
except
they
have
likes to
show
the
other
his latest
the
clergyman
favorite
and
of
diversion
Morland
Mr.
theirs, and
Morland
mother
conversation
daughter.
is at pains
She
to
the
gentle
only
a
quarrel that
prevents
Morland
diplomacy of Mrs.
not,
might, though probably it would
of their life-long friendship.
break
a
retired, the
indulging
are
turns
is
no
convince
have
With
Mary
longer a
to
her
resulted
Mr.
in
Amy
Rose, the
child, the
husband.
Soon
boathouse
with
has
her
it
OF
PLAYS
Even
she
been
he
asking
for
will
jWhat
some
other
tell
must
Outside
the
him
girl
of
some
as
they
window
the
"
usually
time
the
man
before
be
then
"
that
things
strange
years
will
will
"
marriage, and
the
who
Simon,
than
young
in
hand
Rose's
and
more
Soon
or
their
to
been
months.
at the
midshipman
childhood,
few
"
is down
she
young
last
Mary
they
happened
him
they
has
mother,
1920-1921
now
from
playmate
these
when
come
Blake,
Simon
the
to
seems
attentive
BEST
THE
200
For
tell
had
happiness
her.
She
little
is
As
joy and
for
the
the
Mrs.
is
she
has
just
Mary
he
has
asked
and
But
"
eleven
all at
he
o'clock
once
tellingme.
"
he
to
excited
has
been
he
him.
marry
her.
delightful boy
Qier eyes
shining
and
was
and
became
You'll
her
only
Oh,
solemn).
wonderful
thing. He
"
that
boy, Mary
almost
that
girlishmixture
is
"
very
Rose
surface.
it is
frightened
Morland
"
the
event
...
Rose
of
capable
haltingly confessed
by
His le^-ve
proposal of marriage.
and
day,
is what
beneath
terrific
event," when
next
lies before
boathouse."
Rose, is Simon's
is up
That
that
impulsive,
first time
over
the
at
"terrific
Mary
future
hidden
present
the
fright
happening
The
at
her
see
we
of the
aware
really extremely
emotions
many
of
and
that
mother,
just
was
just
is
boy
the
manner
wonderful,
stood
quite undertill today
at
"
boy
mere
her
It
man.
scarcely
know
was
while
him
now,
he
was
mother.
"
"MARY
Mrs.
Morland
I think
Darling,
"
I shall know
Mary
Rose
him
He
"
ROSE"
201
breakfasted
he
with
us.
still.
is
quite different
from
breakfast
time.
He
think
doesn't
of
laugh
capsizing
has
so
grown
of
thinks
the
any
"
"
hot
should
take
Mary
quite
Morland
Mary
Rose
I
bring
Mrs.
they
room,
that
has
this
got
far
as
marriage
no,
"
him
in ?
must
see
course,
Simon
dearest.
She
if
"
to
goes
clatteringback
Of
"
courage.
She
propose
"
overhead,
give him
little). He
and
"
"
"
that
to
agrees
cold
system
holds
lease-
tomorrow?
Morland
But
he
and
hire
and
"
Mrs.
May
man.
place
Rose
for
not
Does
the
he
"
of freeholds
and
he
"
even
"
he?
never
"
"
that, has
would
intentionally now
manly, so
protective
everything now,
and gravel soil
and
{breaks down
again)
Morland
(firingup
as
he
"
punt
so
grave,
more
fetch
the
bashful
lover, and
comes
moment
later
"
PLAYS
BEST
THE
202
OF
1920-1921
sallow.
At present he
Harry was
and
of mingled exultation
is in a state
trepidation."
The
gives him courage,
however, at
pounding above
when
he needs
it most.
those
psychological moments
with
Rose.
He
is awfully in love
He
"would
Mary
into
little chips for her."
be
"To
cut
let himself
people marriage is a thing to be entered on
some
young
that
is not
I
style. What
lightly," he says, "but
my
is to give up
all that, and
insure
want
larks, and
my
The
life and
read
the
political articles."
knocking
above
reminds
him
else.
"Oh
of something
yes!"
he continues, "and
I promise you
be like losing
it won't
like gaining a son."
a daughter, but
Finally he has stated his case, and they have
agreed
that it is a good case.
the ceiling
But before he raps
on
the fishing rod is for) there
is something
(that's what
he must
had
be told; something that
happened
seven
twelve
Rose
and
whUe
before, when
was
Mary
years
"were
in a remote
the Morlands
part of Scotland, in
while
complexioned,
the
Hebrides."
outer
barren
strange,
acres
in
Morland
and
often
custom
there
to
tree, and
go
of
and
was
her
row
sketch.
they would
and
fetch
not
uninhabited.
would
in
the
with
sit
the
each
wave
to
her
again
when
Morlands
Likes
to
did
be
MoRLAND
not
know
this.
Visited," they
"
It
I had
landed
her
some
hours.
In
while
still in the
was
on
the
boat
on
The
called
what
this island
from
her
old
an
then
he
finished
long held
had
Island
the
time
the
Little
That
it.
was
to
as
usual
early evening
and
of
had
at
his
was
leave
stump
he
The
day's sport.
natives, it seems,
superstition against the island, though
'
and
other, and
his
'
of
It
there
be
last
our
fished
and
put
up
I could
island,
fishing,
the
him.
six'
than
habit
island
on
there,
more
Near
the
to
across
She
island
an
island,
an
explains, he was
took
Rose
Mary
he
to
would
bit
extent,
Mr.
There
'
my
see
day.
for
rod
her
"MARY
sittingon
ROSE"
203
Simon
You
"
hiding
from
Mrs.
seem
it.
about
She
was
you.
Morland
Simon
serious
so
But
"
Morland
She
"
but
"
"
think
you
island, Simon.
the
on
oh, but
"
Don't
"
wasn't
and
searched
searched?
Mrs.
went
Morland
bed
to
that
feared
they
nothing
Simon
but
mind
never
she
Morland
Simon
Morland
Mrs.
of the
loch
stopped
island
trunk
and
sat
When
"
rowed
can
stood
can't
was
gone.
how
me
couldn't
there
"
the
found
you
thirtieth
"
her.
after
day
boat
mine.
but
"
given
been
to
in
that
first
what
of mind.
state
the
the shore
water
sitting
the
at
the
on
tree
girl!
to
just
the
long
day along
her
saw
back
so
had
wandering one
imagine in
looking across
waved
She
across
landed
was
away.
Outr
"
waved
facing her,
search
come
was
Morland
"
she
no
The
and, Simon,
sketching!
Morland
There
"
"
Mrs.
and
I
you
"
but
was
was
"
"
how
me.
couldn't
we
Morland
boat
Morland
but
we
village
learned
dragged.
thirty days
"
Tell
"
It
There
"
was
in the
one
then
was
Tell
"
Some
"
Simon
"
that.
disappeared
up,
try
{distressed).
"
Mrs.
loch
didn't
we
It
No
island.
The
"
of us!
night.
that
Morland
All
"
and
me
her.
the
went
ing.
sketch-
on
I got
into
way,
except
old
could
see
thing
she
her
said
the
all the
to
me
boat
that
time.
was,
THE
204
"Why
did
at
saw
BEST
PLAYS
OF
row
in that
funny
you
didn't
she
once
1920-1921
dad?"
way,
that
know
Then
had
anything
happened.
It
isn't
than
it
for
some
explanation
was
for
easier
any
Simon
Morlands.
the
to
mystery
there
Surely
girl couldn't
young
the
accept
be
must
disappear
being some
so
without
there
completely for a full month
him
there
is none.
After
explanation ! But they assure
consulted
certain
to
they returned
England
they
friends
and
of them
could
doctors, but
help.
none
all.
As for Mary
They just didn't believe it, that was
Rose
herself, the strange
experience had
apparently
not
affected
told
her
was
"At
first
and
then
the
her
recollection
of
At
the
least
two
seemed
have
to
the
island
she
has
got her
we
ofE her.
In
had
the
to
end
we
"
been
when
times
when
back
could
she
into
seemed
she
who
person
afraid
apparently all
from
Rose's
Mary
it
though up
glimpses
times
home,
now
mentions
momentary
Morland.
Mrs.
were
faded
there
never
back, Simon;
we
And
never
mysterious adventure;
talking casually to some
be
her
after
bloom
her."
before
years
had
inexplicable
so
tell
to
"We
tell her
to
take
to
"
it.
had
parents
thing," explains
all
was
Her
way.
about
great
never
mind.
any
thought
we
it
decided
until
in
anything
that
alarm
her
the
be
to
possibly
not
there.
Strange
Simon
Rose.
or
the
as
change
Soon
he
ceiling with
the
all is well
and
bouncing
in
in any
respect
is standing
on
fishing
that
be, it is
story may
moment
she
rod
to
is to
his
a
frighten
great love for Mary
chair, poim.ding-the
not
let his
to
know
sweetheart
down.
come
later,
one
little
She
comes
but
abashed,
If
she
is
of
being
She
isn't
is
Simon,
"MARY
on
of that
the
boathouse
her
happy
"I
had
lover
such
There
is
should
love
in
place
to
idea
We
"
Isn't it
quarrel
no
to
for
start
gives
Mary Rose
"Simon,"
she,
says
honeymoon.
our
that
in
"
The
Hebrides.
the
Hebrides?
went
once
I had
funny,
suddenly I saw
about
are
about
Scotland
be
can
there."
go
Rose
there
so
shock.
(taken aback).
"
Mary
of
delicious
Simon
bit
205
just as they
things over
talk
to
and
"
It is
score.
ROSE"
almost
it when
to
forgotten
little.
was
it,and
about
then
it
sitting up
quite clearly as I was
in the
dark.
the
there
little
(Innocently) Of course
and
Isn't she
old woman
pointed it out to me.
came
!
Mr.
and
a queer
(This is the sort of strange remark
one
Mrs.
have
Morland
disturbed.
She
Simon
(She
to)
comes
in the
maids
what
makes
house,
Mary
Rose
wonder
Simon
do
What
Rose!
Mary
and
three
the
there?
isn't
has
already forgotten
are!
Whatever
honeymoon.
woman
What
me
I don't
I'm
"
you
mean
(He
is
there
was
pletely
(Com-
No!
secretlytroubled,
particular about
"
Rose
"
little old
Hebrides?
the
if it misses
"
woman?
matter.
island, where
Mary
pause)
only yourself
little old
"
Rose
Simon
is
Simon
is there?
let on)
the' place in
an
(surprised,for she
know
there
said). You
It doesn't
"
doesn't
was
(After
"
puz7led)
Mary
and
trance.)
(cautiously).There
in the
but
are
about
ask?
"
Simon
"
house, aren't
she
you
Simon
Rose
There
Rose
Mary
in
is almost
Mary
"
him
warned
not
my
"
little island!
think
Why
often
there
But
not
keen
we'll
go
there.
?
on
fishing, you
see,
on
my
BEST
THE
2o6
she
would
She
where
spot
safe
recollection.
And
assailing him,
"
and
Rose.
Mary
curtain
much
so
used
They
are
is the
scene
Rose's
Mary
visit.
in
island
the
father
is
distance
thick
is
island
There
in
little at
the
curiosity
day
some
"
let's,"answers
"
boathouse
the
as
and
left her
suggestion
effect
four
For
of the
happily married,
they
now
impulsive
is
"Simon
an
and
can
be
is
it
The
seen.
inently
prom-
much
fir tree,
"
mysterious
at
back,
standing
Scotch
ing
gleam-
tree
rowan
soften
to
serves
and
Rose
they
as
come
Simon
than
ever,"
gay.
mentions
husband
adoring
against
her
have
the
who
and
author
likes
to
enthusiasm."
is
Rose
"Mary
the
been
wood
brush-
the
through
exuberantly
are
matter-of-factness
water
spot where
scene.
Mary
years
of
and
tmderbrush
ihe foreground
very
that
on
mainland
somber
the
at
had
the
with
II
beaten
more
it
falls.
The
and
defiant
the
very
because
of
"
gether.
alto-
the
"
there
idea
him
her
"Yes
says.
off to
the
shivers
like to go
I should
admits.
Rose
show
leave
to
Act
first
1920-1921
to
place. Simon
then, a sort
island," he
that
see
like
father
her
such
was
OF
of course,
is reasonable, Mary
is not
quite ready to abandon
Which,
But
PLAYS
For
pit
his
some
visitingin
been
the vicinity and
days they have
today
rowed
island
with
to the
Cameron,
a
they have
over
Scotch
boatman,
leaving their
three-year-old son,*
his
that
Now
Harry, with
nurse.
they have found the'
spot Mary Rose has been looking for, the object of their
and
is for, having lunch.'
visit is accomplished
Simon
,
He
much
is
and
little bored
has
revealed
with
an
little.
adventure
that, promised,
"MARY
The
island
of
place
has
not
In
mystery.
Morland
have
must
ROSE"
quite
met
fact
he
207
his
expectations
is convinced
dreamed
all
as
Mr.
now
that
stuff
about
Rose's
Mary
is not
disappearance,
Still, he
just
comfortable
is rather
anxious
to
being there and
get
He
is
humor
to
however.
willing
Mary
Rose,
away.
Let her adore
her darling island, if she will; let her tell
her
beloved
they
old
haven't
tree
been
all the
stump
able
news
that
even
"
of their own
buy a home
yet.
Which
Rose
the
Mary
promptly does, kneeling on
moss
that she may
be the nearer.
"You
live
see, dear, we
with
because
Simon
is so often
daddy and mother
my
away
to
secret
than
got
"
thank
But
sea.
"
that.
such
says
He
is two
beautiful
matter
and
girl?
and
it say
be
the
to
nine
think
you
yes,"
he
island
she
amd
remembers
her
months
and
he
"
that
Simon,
settled
in
sport
it.
has
never
"
Rose
Mary
making
interest
me.
them?
means
quickly
sentimental
he
loving
answers
more
"
tree) No,
about
me
have
"
the
{She slaps
years
do
you.
her
fact
lidll startle
wonderful
more
little
doesn't
of
may
much
things
have
This
baby!
you!
to
In
been
there
again.
particularly keen
come
Even
the
alone
!
trip
today he proposed making
Why ?
and
Simon
turns
redodges the question as best he can
to the subject of limch.
"a gawky
They build a fire and Cameron,
youth of
the
dressed
as
or
twenty
poorest sort of gillie,
more,
cooks
the
but
with
accomplishments,"
proud, and
"
for
trout
Aberdeen
in
pay
the
them.
subject
is
imiversity, preparing
vacation
period he acts
his fees.
to
Cameron
Simon.
of the
An
odd
island
legends
for
as
and
character
It is Cameron
really
who
as
the
the
ministry,
boatman
of
student
to
but
help
amusing, particularly
again brings up the
limch
progresses.
THE
2o8
He,
for
bad
instance, refuses
For
"
Simon
go
for
away
Simon
that
be
afraid
why
of anyone
island
the
ever
it does.
say
it on
the move
self?
your-
seen
ing
always watch-
not
am
against it?
for
them
island.
but
"
Its
to
trees
has
against
Blake,
visitors?
not
one
is
name
need
not
These
no
Mistress
you,
it
birds.
the
are
would
Whatever
"
"
afraid
Mary
want
to
Because
ever
it for
an
island
be
visited
they
they afraid
are
is what
That
are
I say
to
of?
Whateffer
them.
of ? I say.
Rose
Cameron
"
But
what
you
are
afraid
of,
Mr.
Cameron
are
Mary
stories
your
who
not
else
mark
has
Rose
Cameron
lovely
are
visit it.
to
Mary
There
no
way?
some
have
this
on
visitors
you
time
the
does
same
are
nice
very
bird
and
before
And
the
There
"
had
before
happened
(with dignity).
thing, for,
one
parts.
Cameron.
Anything
"
Cameron
in these
Blake.
it, Mr.
seen
in
you
"
Simon
was
so.
There
But
Cameron
would
bit
"
"
do
to
It
here.
incident
thought
a
Cameron
on
"
it before.
Blake.
"
thing
say,
It happened
"
landed
never
it
little
alive, Mr.
now
was
Mr.
Cameron
It has
sitting down.
day
one
I should
time,
It
That
"
; he
one
here.
Then
Simon
risk
to
1920-1921
is there
"
be
right to
saying.
OF
chancy
What
"
Cameron
are
"
considered
Simon
"
island
that
name,
is not
PLAYS
BEST
"
thing
same
that
they
are
afraid of.
stories, ma'am.
Rose
if he
?
The
"
would
Do
tell
tell
us
us
!
some
Simon,
real
wouldn't
eerie
it be
Highland
"MARY
Simon
pretty.
Oh,
"
listener.
ROSE"
don't
know.
You'll
find
me
bit
mightn't be
sympathetic
They
friend, I'm
ycsu, my
warn
209
of
not
about
cynic
your
island.
Mary
Rose
blood
my
So
Cameron
than
there
one
tells
their
island
still.
must
have
been
as
It
is
will
the
chosen
call of
"I
Blake," he
loud, terribly, or
a
I would
the
said
he
idea
and
call that
child
parents
had
But
"
boy
none
but
standing close
I might hear
explains, "and
soft
no
whispering
one
to
and
go,
would
you
you,
it very
knows.
heard
have
not
the
to
"
have
had
The
be
might
the
on
been
doubtings.
"
the
that
have
eyes.
water
was
if his
that
should
such
parents'
into
Rose's
island,
the
boy, no
disappeared
found
again;
his
some
they
of
none
hear.
And
Mary
as
Mrs.
But
have
to
little
who
fallen
away,
watchful
the
before
it.
wandered
Cameron
heard
I love
never
have
must
believed
none
was
almost
he
of
Harry,
and
away
said
them
own
day
whisked
Some
Cameron,
curdled.
older
but
Please, Mr.
"
sound."
is still
Simon
But
hearing
English
of her
is
her
found
her
of
month
fascinated
father
had
gone;
of the
the
later.
of
It is
and
left her
search
village joined
a
weird
the
of
story,
as
Rose
it, and
Mary
shivery. It makes
afraid, and she clings closely to Simon, though
Still
she believes
it.
"pretends
"
"
Simon
Rose
"
But
"
Suppose
it isn't.
it
were
in which
the
tells
Mary
true,
years
for her
come
for her
and
Simon?
on
"young
twelve
disappeared
ject.
sub-
insists
and
tells
Cameron
the
change
to
eager
had
who
of how
people
a
Rose
Then
miss"
later and
all the
and
Mary
more.
before;
cynical
finding
Cameron
a
little
she
only
BEST
THE
2IO
Rose
Mary
how
awful
Simon
told
No,
"
He
her.
of
not, but
course
her
(studying
"
OF
girlwhen
the
for
PLAYS
if it had
told
father
her
thought
it wiser
suppose
that
been,
her.,
he
cautiously). Perhaps
have
may
1920-1921
not
never
disturb
to
her.
Rose
Mary
And
best.
Simon
Yes, I
"
yet
Rose
she
Simon
might
If she
"
Mary
not
her
happened
caught
like
hope it
let's
you
is with
her.
protect
You
be
think
people, husbands
Nice
try!
(burlesquely)
Let
"
{Luxuriating
catch
let them
won't
We'll
crime.
I'm
And
'em
"
Rose;
had
me,
Simon?
remnants
the
and
"
back,
to
pretended shudders)
of
and
comes
ever
"
what
don't
husband
Rose
will you,
Simon
been
risk.
knowing
back
come
island,
able-bodied
in
Well,
"
Little
again!
today.
taking a
was
have
How?
"
Mary
an
it
"
would
and
(This
the
up
the
scene
again, Mary
back
come
frightened.
too
from
escape
never
pack
to
now
is burlesque
make
to
bright.)
Mary
Rose
about
You
last
is always
liking to be
visit.
(To Simon)
visited
sad, don't
"There
"
and
"
The
"
my
never
I dare
last time
say
of anything
think?
you
be
always
must
dear
lonely
poor,
about
funny
be
to
your
this is my
Simon
shame
(To island)
island.
knew
It's
"
dear.
Mary
There
There
and
locks
is
will
at
be
the
time
last
last time
that
the
of
back
suppose
I shall
rather
be
must
"
last
whimsical,
there
the
Yes
"
be
must
She
that
Rose
she
see
you,
everything.
Simon.
than
"last
time
for
"
that
will
his head.
Simon
pat
down
There
will
the
will be
kiss
her,
standing
the
last
"MARY
time
she
time
as
will
ROSE"
her
211
Simon
"But,"
baby
points
"the
have
him
out, reassuringly,
seen
day after you
for the last time
will see him
for the first
as
a baby
you
loveliest
time
is
instead
the
"
little gentleman.
Harry
see
of
of
all, agrees
and
man
of that!"
Mary
Rose,
takes
held
being
Think
his
hers.
on
will
mother
"But
And
be
the
when
his
on
don't
you
knee
think
saddest
time
has
make
so
Simon.
know
when
the last
thing is that we seldom
she demands,
come?"
"We
could
suddenly.
of it."
much
lor no," answers
"Oh,
more
"To
Again
he
tries
and
thoughts
let him
know
intimate
spoil it
valiantly
to
would
talk
that
all."
the
change
to
started
get
She
go.
would
home.
But
of all the
of her
current
will
she
things, the
not
little
them
since
to
happened
married.
Of the day she flung the butter
they were
bom.
dish
at
was
him, for instance, before
Harry
Still,she has been
a
"tolerably good wife," hasn't she?
things,
have
the
when
played that trick on him
and
baby came,
craftilygetting him out of the house
he
and
then
to
Plymouth
surprising him when
away
is
what
returned
by inquiring, innocently, "Dearest,
that funny
Quite suddenly
thing in the basinette?"
she is serious again.
Even
if she
Mary
and
we
Simon
Mary
Rose
could
Mary
Simon
Simon,
"
choose
Rose
I
"
"
Oh,
moment."
of
one
one
Harry,
I should
Oh,
Rose
"
for
mean
off
to
go,
which
would
course.
it.
hop
to
go,
I know
of
Harry
your
mustn't
would
blot
You
"
again!
I wonder
"
of
have
to
"
She's
if
had
us
{clutchinghim). Dear!
haven't
popped off yet.
the pickles. (He
over
curiously) If I did
be, "The
happiness
for
which
Well, but
"
nearly knocked
you
if
(with a groan).
"
be best.
Simon
had
me
first
be
out
Steady
looks
thought
interfered
at
"
her
would
with
forever, Mary
laughs
Rose
Mary
Rose
Now
hundred
his
of
one
that's
Cameron
has
no!
isn't it?
It's
"
go,
to
one
lose
{guiltily).Oh
"
It's true,
"
Mary
the
should
1920-1921
day.
Simon
he
than
rather
Rose,
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
212
at
true,
what
I should
returned
like
with
if I
that
rate,
any
do.
to
you
boat, and
the
was
Simon
the
fire.
Their
backs
turned
out
to
are
stamping
who
is sitting demurely
"holding her
Rose,
Mary
And
the
island
has
call
to
begun
now
tongue."
"The
sound
is like the
wash
of waves
Rose.
Mary
untrodden
shore
with
wind
whistling through
some
on
is mysterious
it and
It
and
moaning.
a
strange
is at
first soft as
whisper, but it
a
threatening and
It
in volume
tiU it is horribly loud.
rapidly increases
is
is
furtive, fearsome,
and
lovely music
something
very
to
assert
trying
eerie
more
stmny
it, but
conscious
of
existence.
in
is at
storm
of
out
dies
her
help,
She
but
face.
its loudest
her
and
arms
is
which
is like
she
soon
Once
now.
has
she
neither
is
silence
not
miss
the
"
of his
is there
the
When
face.
wrapt
out
goes
is oblivious
but
merized.
mes-
one
arm
one
she passes
through
outstretched.
there
were
in the
largely drowned
all is as
the
placid and
eye
hears
the call and Mary
Rose
continue
above, hearing
as
Rose
continues
sitting, only
frightened,
She
'call'
is
is
thereafter
is not
it there
if there
as
the
about
but
risen
has
sight,
away
Mary
sound,
for
hear
Cameron
first
She
Simon
We
Rose
Mary
but
To
and
Simon
At
joy
itself
before.
as
of
beautiful
sounds.
nothing.
to
calls
beneath
but
seductive,
the brushwood
Then
the
call
island
has
got
Then
he
her."
At
thinks
first Simon
she
is
hiding
calling anxiously
the
underbrush.
does
for
He
to
Rose.
Mary
frighten him.
her
comes
as
he
But
stumbles
back
soon
out
moment
he
is
through
later.
"MARY
"Cameron,
dashes
I can't
find
again.
away
calling: "Mary
ROSE"
her," he
From
Rose!
and
as
we
are
more
curtains
are
faded,
unchanged
It is
Mrs.
Morland
all
are
and
but,
vigor.
of Punch
reading a copy
Amy
glass. Mr.
asleep.
Mr.
lives have
is
Morland
settled
is
into
friends
of
an
of
help
couch
ways
room."
and
Mr.
"
"They
well
whole, are
who
looks
Morland,
easy-chair
magnifying
beside
the
stirring up
the
is
the
on
the
the
the
room
happy
sitting in
with
on
the
clergyman.
Mrs.
is
ever,
"The
replaced;
and
old
be"
to
first act.
been
the
Amy,
now,
than
the
is
scene
it used
otherwise
three
Mr.
full of
dear
greater
of
bright
same
seventy
preserved
a
the
The
"as
have
or
still "a
and
over
end
etc.," but
is
peopled by
home
the
worn
and
passed.
Morlands'
chintzes
him
III
have
left it at
hear
we
and
Rose!"
Mary
years
anxiously,
says,
distance
Act
Twenty-eight
again that of the
213
fire."
those
of
half
her,
Their
advancing
but
The
old men,
two
they cling to old habits.
for instance, are
still pettishly quarrelsome,
and
take
other.
Mr.
is, by
Amy
great delight in nagging each
years,
his
reckoning, "still in
Morland,
according to Mr.
own
usual
be
to
because
not
used
by
eyesight
well,
"
still at
Mrs.
soon
if Mr.
his
Amy
much
is
at
least
it
is vile.
Morland
is "not
no
to
collection
must
to
has
one
their
over
because
failing,but
nowadays
act
leave
has
been,
it is
longer than
is wearing glasses,
Morland
Mr.
newspapers
hearing
They are
and
in them.
sixties," and
the
as
that
the
And
as
shout
type
for
at
his
him.
of
prints, too,
peacemaker
again
friendly
house
in
wrath."
It is
an
autumn
day,
and
the
twilight
is
gathering.
As
BEST
THE
214
stand
they
by
PLAYS
OF.
window
the
Morlands
yet these
reminded
Rose.
dears
two
after the
gazing
are
Amy the
just been
given to cut down
it falls and
outside, before
Rose's
Mary
apple tree, and
And
1920-1921
the
old
hurts
that
has
some
It
one.
it isn't easy
have
departing
order
of the
to
was
it go.
see
forgotten Mary
almost
they seldom
speak of her any more.
is that, they wonder.
heart
is my
not
"Why
Why
broken?
If I had
been
queries Mr. Morland.
a man
of real
heart
would
have
broken
feeling my
twentyfive years
did."
"Mine
didn't,
just as yours
ago
"I
confesses.
Morland
have
dear," Mrs.
passed
the
of
the
but
I
dear,
shadow,
through
can
valley
say
out again into the sunlight.
thankfully that I have come
I suppose
it is all to the good that
the years
as
go by
At
least
"
"
"
...
the
dead
should
Morland
Mrs.
Some
"
Morland
Morland
they
how
long
yourself?
Mrs.
her
as
first year.
Morland
to
So
"
many
with
agree
Morland
them
She
"
Hebrides,
the
island
you
have
before
wasn't
Fan,
that
thought
Perhaps
.
didn't
I dare
still.
years
ago.
for a time
cling
neighbors
The
better, James.
misty
on
I did
...
"
I know
since
.
us."
don't.
in the
is it since
Morland
Mrs.
and
there
of
from
they
You
Up
think
farther
say
"
"
say
the
recede
not
like
it.
tended
pre-
I did.
their
Mary
Rose,
you
see.
Morland
Mrs.
Mary
and
And
"
Morland
Rose
was
Simon
much, but
door) that
mai-ried
that
had
was
life
it
"
was
It's
"
first
disappearance
all unfathomable.
have
so
yet her
hers
I.
so
I often
hers.
that
Even
long
go
"
even
into it
now
room
It's
that
have
you
as
if
and
forgotten
ing
remember-
"MARY
MoRLAND
little
It's
"
bitterly)
ROSE"
It's rather
Strange!
You're
215
nigh
pretty
terrible!
(A
forgotten, Mary-
Rose!
Mrs.
Morland
But
Mary
live
in
could
Rose
the
drag
I think
present
her
know
belongs
to
be
Simon
and
there
after
to
come
wound
has
deal.
came
that
he
if
these
things
mean,
he
when
year
he
has
is expected
on
married
the
to
Simon
of the
"
of the
new
word
some
of
at
"
sea
great
leave.
.
affairs
he, too, is full of his own
the Bellerophon;
ship he is to command,
comes
possibilityof
be much
island
going
"Mercifully, the
been
home
has
When
we
appearanc
dis-
missed
again.
Simon
Rose's
Mary
accept
went
never
healed."
Today
to
Even
philosophically. He
never
For
he kept going back
agam.
years
hoping against hope that there might be
her, but
have
we
shame.
has
true, dear.
longer.
what
us
isn't
past, and
little
tell
that
the
to
for
"
back
it would
Even
You
"
taUc.
the
of which
war
"He
looks
there
is
beginning
his
hair
and
not
it isn't
Perhaps
recall.
opens
shock."
For
is he
like to
have
as
he
moment
able
to
reads
he
recover
it "gets
Only by
quite dazed.
his equilibrium, and
then
for
afraid.
brave
good news.
through a lot;
minute,
.
It's
won't
You're
dear
Mrs.
Morland.
her;
be
you'll
Mother
you?
dreadful
is
come
little rest.
"
it, and
a
would
flarry
it is from
He
degrees
He
brave
don't
you've
one,
for
another
it's Mary
"
be
Rose!
"
come
back
from
Cameron,
the
boatman,
who
BEST
THE
2i6
had
since
long
of the
wife
has
island.
the
well, but
Morland
Mrs.
Simon
I believe
"
deceive
careful."
Cameron
absolutely.
be
might
acquaintance.
mere
I'm
"
well
as
it
She
you.
it be?
can
He
"
Simon
at
very
today on
is quite
wouldn't
me.
MoRELAND
was
be
it reads:
found
was
to
Simon,
"
island, and
her
to
minister
the
become
She
bringing
you
and
back.
come
am
1920-1921
mysterious
the
near
OF
orders
taken
village
"Your
PLAYS
as
Morland
of
Do
"
He
himself.
knew
her
He
look
to
us.
But
"
Simon
it's true.
sure
any
deceived
after
twenty-five
thiak
you
years
wouldn't
know
her
after
twenty-five years?
Mrs.
'
Morland
My
"
my
"
will
she
"
be
very
"
changed.
Simon
know
mine
as
pretty
Rose
Mary
my
gray
know
suddenly stricken
I saw
her, and I
have
she
didn't
remember
Simon
and
of
starts
the
Uttle
a
knees
dazed
miracle.
to
pray.
half
was
the
and
fields
old
her
"
run,
her.
It
little
was
walk
recognized
fields
folks
helpless
as
her
"
They
she
when
it, but
hers.
to
await
in the
Instinctively Mrs.
.
figure
with
train, mother.
the
across
tremblingly
Cameron
my
it
little
be
may
been
in
come
hair
her.
Simon
had
her
"
know
"
going across
excited,
was
saw
It
"
didn't
Morland
Simon
must
with
Her
all gone,
don't
they were
you
Rose
once?
at
{He is
Mary
God,
painful thought) Oh, my
though
"
Mrs.
face
wouldn't
mother,
once?
at
her
"
ways
I would
think
changed,
However
"
Rose
Mary
coming, feeling
meet
her
face
of this
Morland
repetition
sinks
to
her
"MARY
Cameron
to
"She
is
These
five
just
as
incomprehensible
the boy
as
tried
add
to
explain.
in
her
to
immediately
she
thinks
has
"there
is
the
should
her
as
stiU
and
of
in
he
Mrs.
craving to
of Harry
think
just
were
some
eron
Cam-
has
not
by trying to
dread
lying
terrible
intuition
away.
recognized
of mind
some
"She
went
left her
not
state
on
ferent,"
"dif-
explains.
they
adventure,
worried
which
and
She
island
diagnoses
if she
What
years,
jest."
Already
heart,"
day
he
she
pearance
ap-
come
Mary
they expect.
different,"
Blake
in
Rose
on
Mr.
her
way
has
He
the
was
of the
find
are
twenty
which
will
the
we
she
as
and
in
hour
an
in
quite elderly
troubled."
they
not
different
not
and
that
but
"
is
is grave
them
warn
217
first, "already
comes
he
ROSE"
see
as
Morland
her
son.
child?
And
in some
far-off
Harry a grown
man
part of the
world.
had
letters
from
had
him
They
only a few
since the day he ran
to sea.
away
is explaining
how
Rose
been
had
Cameron
Mary
side
of a
found
the
island, lying asleep by the
on
tree
rowan
the fire
Up
stairs
and
opens
the
long
so
the
same
The
as
when
Mary
Rose
is heard
she
used
in
her
"Dad!"
she
changed.
is
under
the
"
it, Simon?"
that
each
old
the
whose
she
the
old
then
she
But
were
last;
love
turns
as
missing
The
stinctiv
In-
her.
she
Then
voice.
note
in her
that
he, too,
her
she
asks, she
she
has
husband.
to
when
the
Rose
short.
contact.
sees
even
for
outstretched
are
startles
the
from
other
stops
appearance
and
door
days, Mary
arms
suddenly
with
father
the
her
saw
we
clattering
same
in
as
shrinks
lights
as
standing
to
strengthen
Wonderingly
"What
girl. Now
btiilt
faded."
clothes, much
before
the fire, their hands
the
mother,
cries
as
"just
"
mother's
her
do
to
in
runs
her, when
in
to
ago,
her
she
turns
Simon
Joyously,
receive
change
where
better
toward
starts
spot
are
the
meeting.
exact
and
Morlands
had
the
she
age
clasped
to
at
had
sees,
first
him
met
"He
her
OF
he
twilight,that
in the
takes
PLAYS
BEST
THE
2i8
in his
and
arms
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is not
she
is
the
glad
old
to
Simon.
be
there,
she
soon
she
answer
and
Morland
Mrs.
The
"as
scene
it is
htirries
into
room,
following anxiously
back
changes
today,"
inner
the
and
as
it
the
to
at
was
with
after
Simon
her.
.
dismantled
room
beginning
the
of the
"
"
"
"
"
Never
mind
ghost."
that.
Now
then
"
tell
me
about
this
"
"MARY
Mrs.
Otery
Harry
used
it in the
heard
Harry
bear.
I'm
the
"
mine!
Morlands
the
The
"
I suppose
name.
you
village?
it all my
of the
one
Otery
Mrs.
yours.
of
concern
was
I've heard
"
of
some
That
"
219
concern
live here
to
Otery
Mrs.
no
is
it
Yes,
"
folk that
It's
"
ROSE"
It's the
name
family.
has suspected it)
{who
"
days.
Ah
Harry
I sat
as
me
Mrs.
in
Otery
before
grew
too
Harry
{Harshly)
The
Harry
father.
I'm
There
on
Mrs.
one
years
ghost, they
unhappy
Anyhow,
going into
Outside
Harry
the
but
there's
starts
door
of
down
up
down
by
the
speak
inner
the
of
any
other.
dead
these
It's her
old
passage.
room,"
find
to
way
is starlit.
the
is my
better
one.
to
uncanniness
the
sailor.
house; a restless,
thing.
searching, searching for somesuch
things as ghosts, really!
"I
out.
to
am
Harry, determinedly.
the
Inside
flickering
of
"We
writes
situation
the
see
him
as
open
Barrie, "and
happen there.
the light, evidently seeing nothing.
the passage
shielding the candle
other
the
annoimces
night
the
think
one
room!"
increase
candles
no
He
him, too.
him, but I know
see
haunts
there's
them.
of him.
church.
that
the
son-in-law,
down
say,
see
about.
she's
buried
friends
still alive.
they're
going to
you
gone
his wife,
and
and
that
asking
is reluctant
ghost always
Yet
to
to
there's
"
Otery
was
many
going
I used
Hard,
Go
But
made
"
I'm
had
They
a
great man
"
if
country,
I'm
were
they're with
"
still alive.
man
to
come
They
old
live alone
them
It's not
has
The
part of the
Otery
war
now.
my
They're
"
Mrs.
time.
frail to
other
some
them
"
here
from
they
I suppose
that's what
made
Tell me
here.
about
them.
"
But
He
with
we
he
turns
re-
his
THE
220
BEST
hand
so
takes
his hand
looks
is
we
which
them.
is
he
is
that
blue-gray
in
She
She
paler.
clothes, but
candle
is
his
in
he
Rose
is
she
same
and
always
until
Mary
see
The
in
suffused
of him
drawing-room.
the
be
she
is
room
effect is that
The
of
out
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the
except
to
face, but
the
of
last
seems
gone
his
lights
her
what
has
when
OF
light in front
he, and we,
middle
the
saw
wearing
no
away,
in
as
color
it casts
that
standing
PLAYS
the
hand
light with
figure.
vague
light and
in semi-
she
darkness."
For
is
"She
speak,
to
afraid
of
little
a
little afraid
No
ghost."
But
of
man
searching
other
it is of
lived
in
it.
holds
his
one
could
she
does
old
the
It
and
be
not
is
time.
When
house
nice
he
and
house,
each
other.
taken
aback
at
is too
He
ground.
of
afraid
whom
is
this
him.
know
for
twenty-five
long
so
looking
of him,
he
though
her.
grown
stand
they
moment
not
wistful
It is not
she
has
been
each
they speak to
the
people that
once
and
agrees,
His
there.
name
she
once
is
laughed living
Harry, he tells her, thinking to help her recognize him.
she will not
have
that.
But
He is not
Harry, and she
his sajdng he is.
But
he is a nice man.
rather
resents
She
for a long time, while
he
has
been
watching him
At first she thought he might
there in the chair.
sat
She
be the man
who
had
stolen
her
her.
baby from
But
do
harm
if she
he
would
him
thought
were.
there
he
was
isn't.
Harry
are
you
one
who
She
can
Do
"
Rose
remember.
I
can
Harry
that
"
is it?
you
searching
Mary
Please
see
"
that
Do
that
mean
now.
you
have
whom
forgotten
for?
they play
there?
Is it
good
once.
am
tired.
so
back
mean
of
sort
to
can't
be
to
place
there?
"MARY
Mary
Rose
Harry
Oh!
"
221
It's not
"
ROSE"
so
"
lovely?
Mary
Rose
Harry
Is
"
No.
"
the
island
just the
beginning
of
the
loveliness?
Mary
Rose
Harry
"
thought
Rose
Mary
Yes
"
that.
Please, I don't
"
want
be
to
ghost
any
more.
Harry
help
It's
"
Come
to
me.
wants
in
Mary
tender
Rose
Harry
I wish
little
No?
timidly,
his knee
and
she
"the
said
and
man
him
on
her
on
I'll
indicates
his
knee.)
try
to
time
takes
me
mine."
of all will be
his
on
knee
But
still she
now
as
to
what
instead
does
not
is to
you.
sits upon
that
when
of
that he
help
but
loveliest
to
end, Ghostie!
he is worried
and
take
to
{He
be able
to
me
wits'
my
Certainly not.
If you'll come
"
"
at
would.
you
way
expecting
your
I'm
of that.
out
you
use
no
he
once
is
taking
recognize him,
me
be done
with
her.
"I'd
clearing in
willingly stay here, though I have my
Australy, but you're just a ghost. It's no life for a
of laying ghosts, but
They say there's a way
woman.
I'm so ignorant."
Mary
Harry
Rose
"
ignorant
than
Mary
Rose
"
Tell
wish
I
"
me!
could;
but
you're
even
more
am.
Tell
me!
"
All
I know
about
Mary
OF
Rose
"
Oh, nice!
{Her
Harry
find
now
to
Rose
Harry
know
that
you
has
dropped
as
much
to
want
argument).
had
She
gets
{who
.
walks
He
coming
way
for
come
his
of
soundness
thing
back
tixms
call
"For
they
through and
are
of
lost
wanted
you
"
he
wouldn't
do
know
old
I'm
notices
afar
ofE there
the
moment
in
the
stifles them.
wind
He
heavens.
the
that
I dare
change
is
sound
of
is the
so
do
and
ever
to
glitterers.
her
you
you.
earth?"
at
to
give
for
what
on
way
Good
me,"
less.
helpless, so help-
so
for them
From
little resentful.
beats
gazes
but
fair
and
know,
lost
they
to
me
her
window
again,
if
as
awkwardly
man's
mere
has
to
her.
over
the_ like
the
It's like
tries
thiag
of stars
in
are
the island's
louder.
the
He
knee.
the
night
a
any
surely
nobody
nothing
who
to
they
small
should
over
"What
would
thought and
"The
I do
ghost
was
that
his
"There's
How
say
that
by
from
can
if
as
you.
up
what
them
"
me!
It's
you.
confesses.
with
If there
entirelyhonest).
is
But
can
place.
her, but
reassure
you
head) Queer
his
{frightened by
is saddened
She
strokes
much.
so
is to
you.
"
needed
nobody
need
Yes.
"
forgot
so
can
Tell
Rose
Harry
Yes
{desperate). They
they
want
you
What
you
is lovely, lovely,lovely.
(She
that
"
"
if
you,
Mary
Then
head
tell
to
Rose
Harry
much
can
getting you
Mary
say
it.
so
nothing
know
you
know
about
more
no
tired.
Yes
"
You
"
dog
place
that
Harry
your
You're
"
Mary
say
It's not
"
get back
too
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fatigue.)
with
of
PLAYS
BEST
THE
222
sounds
lovely music
first we
At
growiag
are
heard.
that
breaks
only
vaguely
"MARY
her
see
is
standing
cast
in
the
In
of
ecstasy
an
music
joy.
going
coming
out
to
her.
'Mary
calling:
voices
sweet
light
heavenly
arms
is
glory
great
are
her
see
we
The
there
Mary
Rose!
and
face,
223
gradually
but
there,
her
upon
ROSE"
Rose!'
...
"Now
star
the
The
is
The
at
only
still
then
and
the
window
"
if
as
with
her
were
she
out
arms
straight
it
"
out,
trustingly,
empyrean."
music
is
her
down
shoots
star
"
out
into
but
for
come
walks
flashing
only
dimly
upon
Mary
curtain
falls.
stands
Harry
ends.
seen
Rose
in
that
the
staring
gathering
the
heavenly
after
her,
It
darkness.
light
shines.
"NICE
American
An
Comedy
By
IT
its
but
reviewers
this
prediction
that
it would
of
have
its
morals
present-day
another
as
dramas
in
which
society
and
written,
in
of
"Nice
her
after
in
sister,
her
after
so
her
aunt,
has
two
sees
pretty,
her
her:
the
career
large
patronize
comedy
and
its
criticism
ficial,
artiof
having
for
of
one
the
best
in
from
all
she
radiant
father
charm
is
and
several
in
and
her
is twenty,
and
herself
high
and
considers
vivid
times
224
mother's
her
father
keyed;
the
her
art
visit.
Miss
As
ing;
vibrat-
and
slender
alertly
of
due.
millionaire,
and
extracting
She
has
dora's
Theo-
responsiveness."
a
days
few
set."
"younger
York
New
and
Rainsford,
the
"She
died
Theodora
of
home
her
pay
interested
very
least,
of
forced
of
at
has
Margaret
intelligent
which
up
mother
intensely
life
the
to
credit
Avenue
represents
Crothers
ending
acts,
Park
to
come
Theodora
is
Crothers
picks
People"
or
year
first
of
American
incisiveness
Miss
timeliness
debutante
inclined
typically
the
holidays
interested
were
happy
the
discussion
free
the
season.
Gloucester
a
the
gave
the
critics
those
admitted
they
plays
of
the
Its
immediately
the
though
before-
dominating
the
with
warrant
to
season.
and
of
society,
and
public,
the
out
arrived,
than
rather
revealed
observing
and
manners
it been
run
Acts
People"
sufficient
was
easily
theme,
it
had
"Nice
public
the
time,
Three
Crothers
before
with
success,
in
Drama
Rachel
March
early
was
PEOPLE"
and
she
"NICE
has
accustomed
she
pleases.
dinner
party
as
a
been
Eileen
Baxter-
piquant,
PEOPLE"
for
225
time
some
do
to
much
pretty
This
frankly
able";
lovimpertinent and
wholesomely
Hallie
Livingston, "perhaps
twenty-three,
beautiful
in a large and
brilliantlyblonde
way," who
her Scotch
whisky with "a slow and self-centered
sups
indicative
of her general psychology."
enjoyment
"The
girlsare exquisite in their youth and freshness,"
adds
and
' '
the author
money
finely bred
dressed
"
with
charm."
sensuous
and
in
their
younger
their
kind,
of
sons
health
and
care
of the
delicate
The
equally representative
tail
of
daring emphasis
fashion, startling
and
animals
vailing
pre-
nakedness
invited
are
Leeds,
"Trevor
effete
good looking in rather
an
but
way," and Oliver Comstock,
inherently decent
an
Dinner
is over
and
thoroughly sophisticated youth.
the party is waiting for "Scottie"
Wilbur, Theodora's
has
detained.
been
current
admirer, who
They plan
to "go out
some
place to dance," and while they wait
extremely
each
to
of Hallie, for
estimate
beautifully educated
anything else."
They
"
their set,
a fish
her
dinners
are
sounds
like the
Hallie
"
"
in
Rena,
taken
deadly and
encyclopedia.
Did
you
see
but
"
not
in
of the
prohibition so
the
Rena
one
their
and
keen
idiosjmcrasies."
instance, is that
Paris
hold
has
who
and
foibles
other's
their
table
Maxwell's
"she
was
of
much
prudes of
seriously
conversation
gown
last
night ?
Teddy
her
"
virtue.
I did.
It looked
as
if she
were
advertising
THE
226
Eileen
that.
BEST
And
"
Scottie
would
he
whole
her
if she
will
Eileen
Teddy
"
when
Don't
of
he
though
Teddy
Teddy
going
he
He
Scottie.
town,
Ted?
thinks
am
much
so
"
him.
with
holds
he
way
crush
to
in
dancer
know.
Just
me.
as
me.
does.
never
while
I adore
dancing.
we're
I don't
Oh,
"
tact
con-
with
about
and
absolutely mad
me
in that
perfectly marvelous
way.
himself
so
personal
yet who
is
who
with
her.
dance
to
best
the
adore
Not
"
the
I don't
But
Hallie
till
the
dance
to
in for much
dying
I'm
he's
were
"
signs
through
go
they call
"
go
dancing
"
to
body
no-
dances.
I like
Hallie
made
wants
man
doesn't
Oh,
course
and
night
and
had
and
no
Rena
Oh,
"
last
do
to
corsets.
wear
think
Teddy
her
need
her.
Ironsides
"
you
face
course
she
Hallie
doesn't
whistled
Old
"
1920-1921
she
with
He
the
with
Of
"
stuck
in
OF
knows
in.
cut
dance
Teddy
Lord
was
black
was
PLAYS
know.
I'm
not
controls
about
keen
so
man
self-control.
Hallie
Oh,
"
am.
think
it's
much
so
more
subtle
Eileen
flash
of
you're
pash
in
once
You
"
Hallie
doesn't
must
"
interest
Eileen
while
stuff, you
be
like to
I hate
Oh,
me
in
say
Elemental
at.
Teddy
Well,
"
in
"
like
so
you
know
danger
emotion.
You're
Eileen, did
Eileen
"
Don't
It
least.
"
"
where
sometimes?
think
us
trying to make
subtly and insidiously wicked, Hallie.
Teddy
Like
Trevor.
Pychologically he's
and
physiologically he's as tame
as
your
"
frank
know.
horribly obvious
the
of
sort
Teddy
remember.
ever
kiss
you?
you're
a
devil
mother.
grand-
"NICE
Hallie
Teddy
if he
The
by
up
plausible
"
Scottie
take
but
He
had
been
his
excuses
are
who
doesn't
don't
to
lie about
it.
{She lets
care.
her)
care
You're
the
"
Careful!
.
here?
Eileen
"
not
kiss
and
arms
Who's
"
dinner
and
Hallie.
Let's
off.
get
Was
awful?
Scottie
Not
"
bad.
so
Only,
of course,
I wanted
here.
Teddy
It
"
to
long
peach
{drawing away)
"
Teddy
be
You're
her in his
Scottie
to
finally arrives.
previous engagement,
to
least
at
Teddy,
does
so
long as they
"
Teddy
the
Scottie
"
anyone
him
to tell
did.
belated
what
227
"
That's
"
ever
held
Well
"
PEOPLE"
Teddy
It wouldn't
"
Every
"
the
ference
slightest dif-
Scottie.
are,
you
is good and
the fire bums.
food
Scottie
make
where
you
the
as
really doesn't
girl
if you
were
know
you
Does
it?
So
along.
thinks
mean
you
that.
Scottie
Teddy
that's
Scottie
don't.
you
It is all
"
That's
why
you
"
us.
right,isn't
wonderful.
You're
"
Scottie
The
know
I do.
dance
can
know
you
it?
{They dance,
their
together.)
Teddy
"
why
cheeks
And
"
You're
the
only
man
with.
"
I adore
you!
makes
entrance
of
Aunt
frank
extremely
simplicity
appealing."
of
which
manner
She
is
plainly
representative
does
she
not
of
approve
1920-1921
all that
after
and
she
evident
herself
adjust
to
OF
generation
is
house
tried
has
older
of the
brother-in-law's
She
PLAYS
BEST
THE
28
the
to
the
has
fact that
in
seen
from
her
manner.
conditions
the
her
she
as
found
but
them,
young
"
"
Margaret
It's
"
Gloucester
All of it
"
Gloucester
simply appalling!
"
What?
"
Margaret
appalling
Oh,
"
everything.
"
you
take
it
you
think
seriously
too
tirely,
en-
Margaret.
Margaret
You
"
mean,
it's all
right
"
all of it?
Gloucester
of
This
is
yesterday
today.
Margaret
now
"
the
world
not
think
you
would
have
Margaret
not
made
"
can't.
had
Lucile
with
She
was
of
woman
See
"
I'm
daughter
her
the
she
lived
tide.
much
too
woman
to.
"
Gloucester
case.
Yes.
"
Margaret
the
Never!
"
Gloucester
If
ners
man-
Yes
"
Margaret
of
No
"
Gloucester
with
see
she
The
are.
do
to
could
Heaven
to
right along
come
Margaret
sister
Bosh
"
things
way
nothing
my
only hope
have
the
have
If
"
Gloucester
would
It's
"
here,
keeping
the
world
Margaret,
Teddy
up
but
"
do
to
you
what
her?
Well, do
you
think
you
are?
tlewoman.
gen-
mean
Lucile
"NICE
Gloucester
Margaret
these
they
would
229
of
of them.
one
That's
kind
what
makes
it
common
be
nicest
every
"
just it!
were
the
are
families
That's
If
it
parvenus
But
Smart
"
horrible.
so
Why,
"
people.
yotmg
PEOPLE"
easy
nice
their parents
people. What
are
thinking of?
Can't
what
it's going to do
the
future
they see
to
generations?
Gloucester
there never
Why, Margaret
was
a
that
that
didn't
think
the
generation
next
grew
up
coming on was
one
going to the dogs. They're freer
"
"
yes
"
because
"
actually
they are
younger.
safer
than
they're
believe
I went
through
did.
deviltry we
when
board
You
"
about
own
way
to
and
"
Margaret
in it than
merely
Oh,
between
two
yotir
these
If you
is their
day
Margaret
conservative
youngsters
not
"
Oh
"
Margaret
know
that
would
that
have
to
do
to
mean
in her
I'm
how
to
be
"
talking
not
see
vital
day
"
Lucile's
talk.
plain.
would
But
The
and
she
form,
raw.
anybody's
plain
rather
feeling
am
Why
not?
feel.
I know
house
since
I have
what
have
Teddy
than
found?
you
I did
for
come
back
"
Gloucester
able
"
I find
what
That's
"
good
manners.
don't
belong
things of character
and
fundamental
they're eternal
them.
daughter without
Gloucester
thing
every-
of
can't
we
day!
and
superficial fashions
about
generations.
I
Frankly
little
and
their
"
their
serious
measure
ideas
seem
ours
in
more
exaggerate.
And
right.
far
you
age
above
that.
something
the difference
"
course,
this
all
out
and
"
"
more
And
for
all the
salvation
own
Jove
about
open
admit
their
out
by
bottled-up
sneak
to
to
Oh, there's
"
from
of
work
the
perfectly
have
come
Gloucester
think
They're
it.
they're going
had
we
But,
I'm
Lucile.
BEST
THE
230
That's
here
only bad
the
Margaret
have
let
away
in
an
Gloucester
have
would
give that
evening.
Eighty
you
it
that
"
isn't
she
than
dollars
Margaret
She
"
and
sandwich
wouldn't
wearing
it. She
hated
eighty
child
"
more
half naked
1920-1921
thing about
She
"
get them
OF
it.
have
to
PLAYS
pearls
no
dollars
Well,
or
two
throw
to
that
won't
apiece.
let
have
wouldn't
her
about
go
girl should
young
ever
wear.
Gloucester
entirely too
damned
of
is
Heaven
with
matter
the
What
in
the
and
name
What's
the
Teddy?
a
charming
girl and
great
in New
nice as anybody
as
with
matter
She's
friends
her
fashioned
old
something.
"
her?
and
success,
You're
Nonsense!
"
a
are
York.
Margaret
emptiness
The
"
the
"
of
soullessness
it all.
Gloucester
Margaret
haven't
word
but
heard
their
And
the
at
to
of
any
and
friends
her
their
say
anything
about
single
_earth
on
themselves.
and
motors
and
days
three
here
thought
alike.
pours
all hours.
Gloucester
them
been
nor
clothes
all talk
"
her
express
They
out
I've
"
or
What?
"
That's
"
have
It only amuses
prohibition.
when
they can't get it other
it about
places.
Margaret
Gloucester
Margaret
young
quiet
(She
Is that
"
"
And
"
girls are
their
covers
Gloucester
cigarettes.
all you
can
That's
all there
as
"
That
any
with
eyes
have
is
is in it.
!
smoking
dependent
as
nerves
her
the
her
Oh,
delicate
cigarettes
it's too
to
horrible.
hands.)
rowed
bad,
Those
their
upon
"
in it ?
see
with
admit.
Ted
But
about
what
the
are
"NICE
going
you
do
PEOPLE"
do?
to
It's
231
her
not
fault.
They
all
it.
Margaret
love
Who
"
to -her
willing for
running
"
her
Do
"
Gloucester
happy.
capable of
Margaret
She's
and
her
and
and
himself
The
He
gladly.
so
what
all
Teddy.
wants
to.
make
to
nice
her
and
girl
isn't!
Shes
fectly
per-
her.
help
And
is all it
himself
that
can
It's
all
my
boy
was
for.
for something
useless
hurt
chaos
lying
He
out
went
greater than
the
Oh,
only
of
farce
it !
sacrifice.
but
he can't
S3mipathetic
prejudiced imaginings have to
these
you
her?
everything
is
It
she
can
She
this
hideous, horrible,
Gloucester
civilization.
save
Are
of herself.
can
And
gave
to
"
She's
degeneracy.
in France
that
all
by
that
alone?
advise
isn't!
surrounded
nothing
waste
there
right.
taking care
her
making
are
"
doing
She
"
with
never
all
who
ooys
know
you
I'm
"
She's
child.
marry
I don't
"
Margaret
about
them
to
Gloucester
these
are
"
just
see
with
do
has
do
with
to
her, Mrs.
everything
Rainsford
insists.
is the
most
Teddy
poignant part
of it all.
"Hubert, she's been killed and thrown
away
She's
the very
just as absolutely as John was.
essence
of this thing that's
air.
in the
America's
infinitely
than
There's
Europe.
there, perhaps
as
worse
the
"
dinned
into
one's
name
are
themselves
and
Heaven's
clothes
their
and
American
and
"
all
decent
their
children
at
the
their
sense?
common
the
sane,
for
excuse
'inevitable
ears
pleasure
culture
some
reaction'
time
people
to
expense
of their
inheritance
have
Why
in
ing
allow-
in food
wallow
of
is
why
here
over
over
that
but
"
it
and
breeding
"
wholesome
let it kill
you
Theodora?"
Gloucester
returns
for
is
a
still unconvinced,
heavier
wrap
and
he
but
when
discovers
Teddy
that,
near
decides
start, he
she
cannot
mean?
"
enough
Teddy
Teddy
Why
"
starts
not
dad
"
Gloucester
Teddy
You
"
not
I'm
"
that
I'm
"
too
sorry,
Gloucester
that.
You're
For
the
We
"
to
way
I'm
me.
"Scottie"
and
him
tells
others, but
not
until
instructions
and
slipped
is not
she
quelled, however,
for her
being so
reason
have
then
Childs'
done
never
"
doing
we
it
this
"
it's
or
people
anything
it into
him
demands
lot
and
anything
of
fun
to
"Do
We
and
else I want
to
note
Her
his hand.
humiliated.
before?
dismisses
excuses
written
she
about
more
She
her
make
has
and
do.
will
downtown
come
and
to
break
me
is obedient.
Teddy
moment
make
"
say
that
You're
going.
I'm
can't
treat
won't
"
but
"
You
going,
not
but
sorry,
extremely disagreeable.
and
positive engagement
on
go.
speak
can't
baby.
Teddy
and
go
You'll
"
Gloucester
we
promised.
"
kind.
(She
Gloucester
Teddy
can't
You
"
"
this
Why
going.
I'm
course
You've
late.
too
waiting.
are
Gloucester
the
Of
sternness?
others
It's
frightfully amusing.
You're
"
sudden
that.
Just
tonight.
Gloucester
The
What
dad!
Why,
amazement).
(in amused
"
you
done
good
daughter
tells his
He
stand.
getting
go.
Teddy
do
take
to
is just
it
though
midnight
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
232
know
it all the
have
breakfast
to.
the
think
you
intend
of
rebellion
do
the
to
I suppose
time
at
keep
I
"NICE
thank
can
in my
Aunt
you,
Teddy
Father's
This
in
is
the
the
whatever
I did
first time
he's
and
manner
and
decency
I know
all
was
haved
be-
ever
it
put
you
his head.
Oh,
"
Teddy
Well
"
doing
find
you
head
his
Margaret
to
Teddy
going
to
think
watched
judge
girl
of
what
understand
"
in
interested
You're
so
Listen
Theodora
this.
you
"
cause
be-
father
to
me
just
dear.
young,
were
saying things
wrong
with
Just
what's
"
and
human
same
trusted
to
what
we
alone?
Don't
'
and
I think
that
way
you
being
without
behave
were
pray?
wrong,
minute?
every
would
mother
your
here.
Just what's
do
tonight?
Margaret
very
the
let your
interest make
like this again.
we're
think
to be
you
we're
decent
enough
Don't
are
amusement.
be
I'm
behave
I'm
if she
"
necessary.
dear
Don't,
"
you
were
you
There
Oh!
"
Margaret
say
know
much.
please.
"
Teddy
didn't
for
must
don't
and
"
moment
do
to
my
very
Please
"
isn't
because
happened
Teddy
It
Oh,
"
I love
simply
I like this.
Margaret
all
"
think
"
amusing.
lose
things.
other things
Teddy
"
isn't it true?
such
plenty of
"
careful
"
"
dear
my
Be
"
Gloucester
of
that
absolutely
Gloucester
the
had
always
absurd
this
Margaret
and
interest
"
believe
to
sense
right.
Margaret,
Teddy
"
"
common
It
233
affairs."
Gloucester
into
PEOPLE"
you're young
you're getting
that
the
fastest,
it all leads
to
your
impetuous
pleasure in
commonest
a
looseness
sort
and
234
THE
laxness
that
PLAYS
BEST
OF
1920-1921
possibly have
can't
hann
but
anything
in it.
Teddy
I don't
"
freedom.
I think
with
agree
it makes
Nothing is so dangerous
and
nothing is so safe as
Margaret
the
That's
"
devil
just
on
as
evil-mindedness
narrow
"
frankness.
the
the
song
That's
now.
independent.
and
strong
us
in
I believe
all.
at
you
world
we're
what
is
riding to
fooling ourselves
with.
Teddy
"
"
If
you're going
by yourself and
everything I do
don't
think
you.
Teddy
hard
Then
"
Margaret
-I want
help
Theodora
Teddy
Margaret
Teddy
Margaret
the
"
wrong
Teddy
and
Margaret
the
see
as
"
kisses.
shaking
to
getting anywhere
I
"
You
surely
disagreeable things to
these
say
earth
on
What
do
say
you
in
you're
a
The
danger
them?
because
"
joke
dress
very
have
you
on
is indecent.
What?
Positively indecent.
Well, really!
These
the
boys
"
going
freedom,
" "
But
is wrong.
wait, please.
"
"
say
"
"
making
think
dare
you.
"
"
right,
I do
what
and
me
"
Because
"
Margaret
is
aren't
we
why
"
to
so
"
Theodora
"
it's very
and
say
So, good
Margaret
think
you
and
it is
what
judge
to
here
on
as
you
as
wrong
Kissing?
it
aU
call
it
can
be.
How
Kissing doesn't
hands
did
"
"
Don't
the
"
love
promiscuous
time
the familiarity
the kissing
it's all
"
"
stupid!
mean
I suppose
know
you
any
when
There
more
are
kisses
than
now
girl.
that
you're wasting
life without
doing
you
were
of your
precious years
of
Or
one
ounce
good to anybody?
thinking one
of
but
thought
anything
yourself and
body?
your
Don't
know
you're spending too much
you
money
most
""
"
"NICE
wasting
that
it here
could
be
You've
"
Margaret
help
But
"
You
will
My
Aunt
you
Margaret.
only
to
want
takes
Teddy
Ask
Hello
"
him
I'll
to
change
What
know
the
hope
showing
like
She
Aunt
off before
seven
the
up
receiver
is the
Island.
and
ask
in
Scottie
"
them
utes.
minfor
wait
to
breakfast.
Stuff
He
trying
"
there.
fifteen
of dad.
was
"
only
make
to
have
have
and
not
curtain
falls.
II
the
all
They
the
as
evening
Gloucester
Teddy
coffee, intending to
town.
in
have
day and
package of sandwiches
motoring
a
o'clock
scene
Long
down
Margaret
Act
the
Hello
"
father.
hangs
is
be
afraid
I'm
down
man
young
place to go for
nearly choked.
he
course
think
don't
you
noise
of
Yes,
of
Theodora's
to
telephone.
others
peach
(Theodora
door)
night, dear.
into
come
crosses
"
and
gown
Telephone
us.
the
to
my
"
is there
"
come
tears
away
Good
that
hall
the
to
night.
see
"
angry.
Slow
out.
fightsthem
telephone.)
the
me
Good
girl
try to
good night?
goes
aren't
you
goes
little
kiss
you
She
eyes.
to
Don't
help.
your
Margaret
when
see
need
dear
move.
(Margaret
It
time
for it?
and
you
was
it?
with
done
hurt
Won't
"
doesn't
with
never
quite enough,
I don't
"
only
on
there
you.
Margaret
I'm
said
I've
"
Teddy
and
235
Teddy
"
there, when
good
greater
know
and
PEOPLE"
of
the
cottage
simmier
Scott
Wilbur
broken
into
and
bite
to
iDeen home
next
have
the
thermos
eat
and
since
day
down
been
cottage
bottle
motor
the
of
back
"party
"
THE
236
BEST
OF
PLAYS
the
ScoTTiE
for you.
Teddy
he
"
That
had
will
a
be
sweet,
ScoTTiE
"
midnight
Teddy
Well, I
want
to
chaste
very
This
can
left
in and
stroll
to
the
impression
by
get back
an
We
hour
in
quiet day
Having
exactly cahn
is going some,
even
be
to
make
again.
parental
mightily stirred
is
he
not
of
in favor
him
expect
girl.
Danced
ScoTTiE
and
bet
will
she
so
"
ten.
I've
say
country.
home
about
night
last
"
"
Teddy
stand
is
rebellion
open
that
father
old
misbehave
won't
of
act
know,
it, you
about
can't
You
"
1920-1921
Four
"
Had
"
then, with
ScoTTiE
aU
few
at
very
lies,gave
deft
with
Motored
"
joints
"
!
breakfast
different
at three
night
others
the
all
me
roadhouse,
queer
day
and
"
slip.
the
here
we
are!
Teddy
Don't
Alone
"
it ?
love
you
ScoTTiE
I'm
You're
"
Teddy
"
ScoTTiE
Teddy
I like
"
But
"
do
apace.
you
See
here,
and
place to
cigarettes.)
to
marry
you
know
me
tell
Scott?
"
do
how
"
How
want
you
that
mean
time
{Lighting their
"
"
I adore
better
coming
it.
about
crazy
be
night
with
peach
last
at
I know
you've
do?
you
an3rthing?
in
been
love
with
so
many
girls.
ScoTTiE
Teddy
"
door
"
blows
Teddy
Am
"
ScoTTiE
But
You
wanted
never
to
great passion
I the
are!
{He
starts
so
marry
of your
kiss
to
many.
life?
her.
The
open.)
"
Oh,
shut
it
tight!
Heavens,
is it
raining?
"NICE
ScoTTiE
closes
(looking out).
"
Are
door)
Teddy
"
Don't
(pouring
"
got it filled
the
at
Yes,
"
(Taking
whisky
some
last
the
into
cups).
place.
got filled in the
you
sip)
(He
so.
left?
any
"
Teddy
think
you
237
cold, dear?
No, but I'm not exactly roasting.
This
will make
all right.
(Taking
you
"
ScoTTiE
PEOPLE"
Oh,
hate
it
this
last
place,
way
too.
without
"
water.
Scottie
But
"
fastidious.
so
wouldn't
sit
isn't any
water
it all, dearest.
Drink
have
here
over
there
take
you
the
by
cold
for
You
be
I
must.
Come
anything.
(He draws
fire.
don't
so
"
and
armchair
an
out
fgr her.)
Teddy
Isn't
See
"
it weird
world
that
and
outside?
It
to.
ought
nice
I
the
the
here
up
believe
to
want
be
to
shut
"
in
light
queer
in
fire.
with
the
thing
whole
like
I'd
love.
wonderful
most
Pretty
in
the
world.
Scottie
Teddy
from
See
here,
being chilly.
"
Scottie
with
don't
you
in
whisky
don't
his
cup)
all that
need
It
is !
to
keep
around
her and
speaking
(putting his arm
I
mad
about
his lips on
her cheek). I'm
you.
give a rap about anybody else in the world!
Teddy
"
Teddy-
No
"
"
you.
jealous of
bit
me
lips)
her
about
you
a
Kiss
"
kisses
Scottie
Not
"
Scottie
Teddy
Are
"
stuff !
"
mad
She's
"
Hallie?
even
Hallie
"
Scottie
Teddy
Not
"
Scottie
and
(putting more
"
I think
"
(He
Dearest!
Hallie, sweetheart?
she's
snatches
Take
pill!
her
in
your
his
hat
arms
off !
Please.
want
to
see
your
wonderful
THE
238
hair.
me!
Let
hair, then
Teddy
that
her
Do
"
loved
we
ScoTTiE
Teddy
takes
if I
But
Couldn't
Scott
in
done.
be
money?
'Thank
God,
have.
there's
ours.
does
"
oiur-
any
keenly
him
and
know
us
all, just
at
money
hadn't
{looking at
"
from him
drink).
any
you
make
know.
What
"
her
kisses
ojffand
would
{holding to her).
"
Teddy
hat
what
hadn't
we'd
"
ScoTTiE
her
1920-1921
we
Then
Teddy
{He
lips.)
OP
know
you
each
other?
If
ScoTTiE
PLAYS
What
"
"
selves.
BEST
it
mean
drawing
had
awful
an
mtich
too
lot
away
to
to
you
"
money?
my
ScoTTiE
Kiss
"
does
What
me.
else
anything
mean?
Teddy
this
{holding
"
minute
off).
him
didn't
have
What
if
cent?
What
knew
you
would
do?
you
ScoTTiE
Don't
"
We're
disagreeable things.
say
happy.
Teddy
ScoTTiE
We
Would
"
know
each
I couldn't
marry
Teddy
world
Teddy
This
"
Kiss
"
is horrible.
{A
"
have
again.
to
talking
for
moonshine?
don't
that,
without
earth
on
most
important
No!
You
the
we?
money.
thing in
the
me!
No!
I want
flash of lightning
heard ^
ScoTTiE
Nothing
We
well
too
then?
me
marry
of
use
anybody
No
"
to
Scott?
you,
ScoTTiE
other
Is money
"
to
the
What's
"
want
you
wait
to
go.
lights the
don't
love
me.
Listen, it is raining.
room
but
little
till it's
over.
Come
and
thunder
spring
and
shower.
sit down
is
"NICE
Teddy
I love
"
Kiss
you.
Teddy
No
"
ScoTTiE
draws
her
that he
so
ScoTTiE
"
feels
good.
Come
here
nice
the
Teddy
this!
and
open
rain-soaked
He
he
Then
was
overtook
and
he
of thunder.
had
been
trying
to
him.
His
was
stuck.
to
"He
an
get back
car
to
town
skidded
Seeing
the
at
flies
wears
electric
lantern."
the
door.
the
sion.
intru-
down
the
island
when
the
storm
farther
party
peal of
the fireplace)
door
the
enters.
carries
hate
here?
Suddenly
man
is
to
goes
candles
any
strange young
and
top coat
{There
She
go!
must
see
He
and
We
up!
to sleep!
increases.
there
Here's
See?
doesn't
{He
pushes
right here.
{Another flash
in
the middle
standing
of
Scottie
lying full length
you
Teddy
storm
peal
don't!
"
Look!
me.
stricken.
Oh, aren't
is
Scott
"
There
much
She
bench.)
Scottie, get
You're
not
going
The
go I
me
sit beside
horror
thunder.
how
fallsfull
(putting his feet on the bench). Oh, this
Come
Where
here, dearie.
are
you?
and
room,
tell you
to
to !
Let
lightning shows
the
on
the
of
I want
got
the bench.
onto
to!
want
I won't
"
239
me!
You've
"
Teddy
him
No, I don't
not?
Why
"
ScoTTiE
PEOPLE"
the
top
of
cottage, he had
the
hill
thought
passed. No
one
his knocking, so he had
in.
seemed
to hear
just walked
that they {indicating
Teddy brieflyexplains that she
and
had
also just dropped
in, as it were,
Scott)
she
in the
rain, I mean,"
"Caught
"got caught."
house."
is my
"This
hastily adds.
He
You're
not
Oh, I see!
living
(Billy Wade).
to
ask
for
shelter
until
the
storm
"
"
"
here?
Teddy
to !
I'm
"
terrific
"
1920-1921
do
nothing could
absolutely terrific! I'm
I could
in.
get you
I've
got
it ?
make
can
York.
New
to
afraid
I wish
shame.
car
my
OF
get
to
got
think
you
Billy
It's
I've
"
Do
PLAYS
BEST
THE
240
in
it
this.
It's
sorry.
I make
Can't
that
on
{He puts his lantern
the mantel
shelf and builds up the fire. The lantern and
You're
circle of light over
the fire throw
lucky
a
them)
fire
you
made
the
ditch.
minute
Billy
I'm
dry
Teddy
It
"
Teddy
feel
Billy
for
well
soaked.
going
I'm
that
Do
you
in
hurry.
if I
mind
try
was
anything
waits
five.)
great piece
to
sit.
luck
for
her
for
tonight,
dry
She
goes
the
of
tell you.
Scottie
groans
that
me
can
in
his
sleep).
He
well.
very
{rising).Is
"
do
to
get
can
above
{as
"
doesn't
going
(Billy
here, I
were
Scottie).
at
ill?
he
Could
do
anj^hing
him?
Teddy
We've
other
No
"
I'm
"
fellow
Teddy
for
It
"
Well,
sparkle.
He's
no.
"
motoring
been
Billy
glad
dead
only
all
day.
to
be
better
for
talker
sleep.
than
the
once.
is the
certainly
go
on
"
was
chance
never
so
of
your
much
life to
in need
entertainment.
Billy
Billy
you
I know
"
Teddy
do
in
little.
not
you
armchair
Billy
you
If
"
glances
lying
than
it's better
least
little?
welcome.
the
to
At
it stops
pretty
out
you're
you?
Billy
She's
"
Gee!
to
{as
"
the
for
this house.
Teddy
on
better
little
"
"
do
All
You.
with
good
right.
Who
one.
Fire
are
yourself
"
away.
you?
and
Whatareyou?
what
do
you
What
like best?
of
"NICE
Teddy
Billy
I?
myself
"
To
"
world.
guy
awfully
No
"
Billy
you.
I ?
What
Anonymous.
What
do
do
do?
I like
own
way
about
You
must
be
nothing
"
long
so
soft
Teddy
my
catechism.
do.
can
am
not
Amuse
best?
in
everything
the
in
"dook"
least.
not
"
have
Now
disgtiiseat
Billy
who
"
ordinary girl.
much
as
possible.
{promptly). What
Teddy
the
best
An
as
Billy
the
Well
"
241
conversation,
That's
"
Teddy
am
I said
"
PEOPLE"
in
snap
What
"
of the
out
New
army
who
"
everyday
an
fell into
an
York.
of
sort
I'm
dressy.
so
snap?
job somebody
through pull
got for me
much
with
so
salary to it it makes
dizzy.
me
Teddy
Rather
spifEy dizziness, I should
a
say.
Billy
is.
I've
I've been
Yes, it
pretty lucky.
fallen in with some
awfully nice people and I don't mind
whether
I'm
tellingyou I don't know
coming or going.
Teddy
I advise
to keep going.
you
"
"
"
"
"
Billy
look
They
Teddy
you
middle,
him.)
at
"
you.
you
have
stop in the
you
do
either
You
"
No
fGo
like
it would
thought
Billy
Much
"
next?
it all
Was
York?
New
going
he's
comes
get
or
(Scottib
think
What
on.
that
drown.
you
don't
"
do
to
Oh
yes
If
out.
groans.
to
"
tradict
con-
how
wonderful
as
as
be?
and
much
about
it?
wonderful
more
more
rotten.
Teddy
Billy
"
Teddy
Billy
"
Teddy
people?
"
"
Well,
hope
You
excitement,
What
"
like best
you
do
you
I think
'spose.
hate
take
Oh, it would
"
Teddy
Billy
The
"
do
What
most?
a
we'll
week
be
tell that.
to
here
week.
so.
say
you've
met
some
awfully
nice
THE
242
Billy
on
from
just coming
I'm
"-
OF
PLAYS
BEST
1920-1921
house
party
now
"
further.
up
Teddy
Billy
attractive
Any
"
Oh
"
girls there?
one
beauty
One
yes.
and
stunner
"
peach.
one
Teddy
Billy
gobbled
You
"
No
"
the
"
the
peach,
bloom
'spose.
her
on
kept
cheek
me
guessing.
Teddy
Billy
There's
"
girl leaves
Teddy
left to
do.
can
That
being
as
sure.
imagination?
the
precious
There's
imagination
Oh!
"
cheek
dull
so
But, Lordie!
the
to
thing
know.
nothing
I do.
"
cleverest
something
like
you
Billy
the
I don't
Oh,
"
Teddy
Don't
That's
"
little
now.
sounds
you'd
though
as
been
shocked.
Billy
place
"Can't
"
Billy
wind
of
out
Teddy
but
whew!
"
I knew
the
Wow!
you
But
knocks
it
sometimes.
me
don't
If you
"
stunned
been
I'm
"
I've
swift
pretty
was
Teddy
the
Shocked?
"
like
it
don't
why
"
get
you
out?
Billy
old
thing.
of these
one
bom
was
dinky
I wanted
comers.
it got me,
else is.
all
Teddy
and
there's
way
"
"
to
right.
the
to
farm
over
same
could
lose
you
in the
here
York
and
what
see
fence
life and
everybody
ideas.
provincial
your
and
the
to
big
so
doing just
I'm
get
back
go
round
in New
be
beauty
are
so
understoo
easily mis-
outsider.
allowing
thing
one
Teddy
Billy
I'm
"
on
frankness
by
Billy
want
little fellows
You'll
"
Freedom
The
I didn't
Oh,
"
I'm
dead
vmderstand,
but
of.
sure
What?
They're making
they get engaged
circus
and
out
of
unengaged
some
things.
makes
my
"NICE
hair
A
stand
Well
"
Billy
do
it is,an5rway?
they think
till
till the
you're
could
They
"
it
if it
as
it be ?
can
but
"
why
get
forever
over?
be
anybody
can
else
stay caught
to
want
you
game's
How
"
to
sure
whole
Teddy
Billy
The
"
caught
went
What
243
of tag?
game
Teddy
"
end.
on
PEOPLE"
be
was
what
on
dam
little
that?
of
sure
sight more
something
if they
sure
than
more
try out.
Teddy
Billy
world
And
"
Oh
"
things
from
come
worst
things
think
it means?
Teddy
tight
and
Billy
and
make
'em
Teddy
Oh
"
Teddy
"
"
Billy
would
But
the
"
so
"
won't
we
it's better
to
let 'em
out
true.
done.
be
it
can.
I wish
best
the
but
wishing
and
wishing
"
and
never
wish.
"
{rising).
the
to
do
storm
wish
gets
more
Nothing.
doesn't
in fact.
is to make
out
the
storm
stop.
minute,
thing
dreams
our
anyway.
shut
up
be
pointed.
disap-
What?
"
Teddy
keep
you
How?
taking anything
Teddy
he wants,
I think
yes,
By
"
finds what
to
'em
come
Can't
"
Billy
let
I don't.
"
Billy
ever
do
what
"
the
where
and
"
if it's wrong
it's better
never
right
it's
from
come
think
And
if
"
Nobody
"
it means?
think
you
"
where
"
do
earth
stop;
violent
best
yourself
"I'll
of the
as
in
only
"You
situation.
comfortable
sit here
the
by
as
this chair
you
by
244
THE
the
fire,and
in town
morning
OF
all
everything's
in the
right.
I'll
.
back
get you
daylight."
at
"
1920-1921
wait.
don't
please
please
all
to
want
get back
please. We'll
no,
you
I'd rather
I'd rather
you'd
you'd go before
It would
down
in the morning.
I came
when
Teddy
Oh
"
I don't
no
"
"
"
"
right.
be
PLAYS
BEST
"
gone
be easier.
Billy
forget
never
Do
Then
"
Teddy
will
And
"
yours
me
Billy Wade.
"
not.
don't
afraid
be
of
anything tonight
"
you?
Teddy
the
by
to
seem
"
Teddy
"
"She
puts
The
is lowered
The
sun
puts
in
you're
that
is
more
He
in blanket
denote
rages
the
shining
wood
when
on
you
did
should
me?
robber
You
or
thing
any-
night.
good-by.
"
watches
and
were
door.
Good
the
You
Why
highway
remembers
him.
storm
to
on
alcove
Then
over
himself
night.
wood
table
in it.
wraps
Billy
out.
some
coat
puts
was
"
goes
the
banged through
Perhaps you are
Good-by.
A
Good-by
"
himself
and
"
I.
was
than
more
any
think
so
Teddy
Billy
and
storm
you
when
from
place
understand?
shouldn't
Why
"
misunderstand
door,
awfully hard
an
You've
here.
you
to understand.
up
didn't
with
not
course
through
Billy
held
Of
"
helped me
splendid
He
Wade
I'll
But
again.
you
name's
I'd rather
"
Billy
tell
to
meet
never
My
you.
want
you
I'll
her
off, closes
fire, takes
starts
Scott,
to
goes
the
sit
blanket
and
to
the
him
wrap
and
back
the
to
armchair,
goes
and
to
sleep for the
prepares
all through this.
The
curtain
passing
of the
night."
next
Billy wakens
morning.
the
fire,adjusts his hat and
"NICE
coat, takes
and
final look
but
Mr.
does
he
Heyfer,
245
greets him
who
that
man's
entrance
the
saves
for
blame
to
so
with
easy
explanation
house.
Teddy's
the
allay the
doin' thair, anyway?
Does
Looks
mighty
peculiar!
feels rather
in
presence
blame
her
the
pletely
com-
they
out?
she's
is
apologetic,
and
Teddy are
he
mess
him.
know
father
Scottie
the
suspiciously
not
young
of
caretaker
the
meets
stop hitn.
Heyfer is not
Scottie, however,
demanding an immediate
of
Wilbur
Scott
still-sleeping
the
at
Outside
departs.
property,
PEOPLE"
and
in,
is
She
to get
only eager
back
the city as
to
possible. They
just
soon
as
are
and
her
Aunt
father
about
when
start
to
Teddy's
For
second
arrive.
a
Teddy and her father
Margaret
but
she
look
doesn't
Teddy
I'm
each
steadily at
ashamed
Scottie
Mr.
Gloucester
Teddy
that
Gloucester
Were
"
Yes,
"
Margaret
You
Gloucester
Scottie
nothing
you.
her, Hubert?
believe
should
Why
this thing isn't
her?
Gloucester,
Mr.
"
And
were.
Believe
"
all night?
I've
done
here
of, I tell
"
earth
on
"
you
we
ashamed
I'm
nothing
slightest degree.
of in the
"
done
father, I've
Now,
"
other.
I?
at
all the
it looks.
way
Gloucester
Teddy
done
rotten,
You've
"
The
others
and
I motored
evening
be
God
got
to
all with
were
just
to
My
"
all
to
day
have
back
You
please.
thing,
low-down
Gloucester
you
don't,
Oh
"
Scottie
Damn
"
us
Do
or
How
in
do
all that
look
town
believe
you
don't
I know
"
at
by
first
and
the
ten
I've
you?
listen, Mr.
yesterday
a
"
Gloucester.
night and
here
came
place
"
and
o'clock.
Ted
last
pected
ex-
The
storm
had
and
terrific
was
OF
had
we
1920-1921
to
We
stay.
simply
to.
Gloucester
just
to
PLAYS
BEST
THE
246
bad
as
to
"
throw
to
Gloucester
kind
of
"
but
this
brazen,
get
it?
Where
done
with
acting
like
Does
in the
the
nothing
disreputable,
does
it
come
loose
Where
"
What
How
but
lowest
anything
mean
from?
anything
"
"
of Heaven
name
commonest,
bringing up?
your
believe
to
me
What
thing?
it is
as
away
It is.
"
mean
you
reputation
it's
God!
By
way.
Hubert
"
fine story.
your
all the
go
"
Margaret
do
That's
"
the
you
do
you
have
do
you
expect
you
What
"
to
I to
am
believe?
Margaret
the
That
"
she's
daughter.
your
other
Of
"
Oh
"
Gloucester
Teddy
I'm
Scottie
Ted
"
Margaret
Teddy
didn't
Perhaps.
considering.
was
of
that.
How
that
Gloucester
of
hope
to
the
wild
as
him.
it's the
It's
expect
you
to
be?
don't
There'll
know.
be
no
more
once.
do?
change anything?
"
go
to
at
engagement
your
What
I?
good will that
should
What?
persuading
That
dogs.
to
say?
you
him.
were.
you
announce
Why
"
can
Oh,
"
You'll
Teddy
do
Probably.
"
Gloucester
engaged.
!
But
"
this boy,
marry
We're
What
engaged
not
it
not.
What?
"
"
we're
no,
is.
she
course
this.
needed
never
"
all
done
have
"
That
people
off with
very
only thing
At
you
him
little
we
can
that
least
you
wouldn't
if you
thing,
do,
it's
haven't
have
weren't
faint
some
admit.
quite gone
been
quite so
going to marry
But
at
least
"NICE
ScoTTiE
quick.
back
Ted
"
We'll
to
Teddy
that
Come
we've
That's
"
marry
me
and
town
now
telephone
eloped.
is.
dora"really
good
idea, Theopossible thing you
very
The
best
do.
Gloucester
it
Yes, it is.
"
Do
it !
Do
it
and
"
get
now.
Teddy
I don't
"
want
I'd
to.
.
for
and
What?
"
it
at
247
another
to
on
father
Margaret
could
listen !
"
go
your
PEOPLE"
sake, dad,
your
don't
want
to
for
"
Gloucester
but
do
can't
deal
good
somebody
marry
sake.
your
And
"
don't
why
want
you
to
marry
him?
Teddy
Because
"
Gloucester
Teddy
can't
marry
(Scottie
let
must
Scott
you,
be
me
"
the
know
like that.
"
him
much
as
judge
of
that.
I'm
now.
as
sorry.
away.)
turns
Margaret
Be
"
mistake
Teddy
him
probably love
loving anybody.
of
You
"
love
You
"
you're capable
I don't
careful, dear.
with
this
serious
Don't
make
other
an-
thing.
Margaret's
{almost breaking at Aunt
tenderness, but controling herself). I'm trying not
do you
him
when
I tell you
ask me
to marry
Why
don't
"
want
What
has
be
you
do
anybody
stupid
I've
course,
just
so
as
with
the
tell
few
and
do
trumped-up
you
head
your
her
can't
and
never
lies about
take
and'
know
want
to
me
go
home
I'm
me?
thing
is my
done
at
thing
has
all.
that
not
going
I
you!
daughter
anything
Of
I'm
got
to
talk
do
sneak
to
guilty.
were
and
can
and
if people
though
dad,
now,
as
home
this
say
she
hasn't
what
What
life?
my
and
If
I tell
way,
idiotic
But
be.
can
of
rest
that
perfectly
as
him
it?
else got to do with
How
and
old fashioned
and
afraid?
done
sorry
love
I don't
to.
to.
hold
and
wrong,
up
trust
then
THE
248
BEST
Gloucester
don't
to
you
little
this
do
Teddy
obey
me
sake,
my
if you
"
don't
want
Scottie
Teddy
quickly.)
out
goes
Ted
"
it ?
No
"
do
to
Teddy
"
Teddy
going
you
(Gloucester
No!
"
Are
"
Margaret
No!
"
lowered
curtain
indicates
thirty-six hours
Teddy
been
for
waiting
some
have
don't
for
thing
Hubert
"
Gloucester
For
if you
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home.
come
Margaret
The
And
"
OF
PLAYS
another
and
her
word
A-unt
from
of time.
lapse
Mr.
Margaret
Gloucester,
been
good
Heyfers have
enough to send in their food, though the old gentleman
is still far from
he has
Still,
seen.
approving of what
Mr.
stand
as
Heyfer says, there ain't no use tr3dn' to under"There
ain't
nothin'
hitch
to
to
city ways.
t'other, nohow."
git hold on one
nor
or
Teddy
way
old
has found
and
has
an
pair of khaki
riding breeches
been
the place. She'd
having a fine time roaming over
be
if it weren't
for the
quite happy
thought of her
but
has
none
father's
lack
Teddy
The
come.
of confidence
in her.
{to Margaret).
I'm
girl. Scottie's
a
"
Just
because
of
town
my
father
can
be
word
and
and
but
she's
all
one
putting
on
I know
deserve
this.
I've
the
in
done
while
daytime.
Aunt
haven't
a
comin'
once
fool
damn
to
Isn't
it
joke?
strutting
about
in
I'm
her hand)
You
all that's
with
Lord!
in
out
"
me.
day
night
damned.
happened
good
usual
forgive
to
alone
"
have
as
course,
me
"
{Going
to
Margaret,
said
thing
and
Margaret
I
give
told
and
I think
you
so.
you
know
you
know
"NICE
what
it
turns
away
to
means
Margaret
Wilbur
marry
him
and
at
Teddy
so
least
you
Oh
"
have
known
would
have
taken
up
to
to
me
Margaret
Teddy
Soon
and
be
If
I don't.
But
coming
"
about
the
hit me,
yet
of it is
divine
and
"
boy
said
would
who
once
he
loved
was
life and
me
known
have
all my
me
with
you'll play
it comeg.
it when
of
care
he
it
was
it.
worth
he?
was
know
he
"
They
Scottie.
just different.
was
and
arrives, Eileen
crowd
and
Oliver
it hasn't
did.
he
Uh?
not.
argument
much
pity
wouldn't
You
the
weak
know
Who
"
"
shot.
little
little more?
I'm
to
till it does.
the
won't
would
only
like
with
intend
danghng
a
I saw
yes, I will.
know
that
if he had
he'd
sure
question.
one
don't
word
my
I know
But
him
know
anybody
"
much
you
I don't
marry
Margaret
so
(She
me.
coquetting
you
suffer
pretty
sure
kept
him
marry
I admit
me.
passion, but
it
you
aren't
you
you
give
that's
never
to ask
father
your
No.
"
Are
you've
made
Scott, I'd
from
by
tears.)
want
sure
you
now?
after
course
I'll
Are
"
Scottie
Of
stick
Yes.
"
Teddy
249
to
you
her
"
Teddy
loved
for
me
quickly to hide
Teddy, I
Margaret
longer
PEOPLE"
come
Hallie, Trevor
to
sympathize
with
"and
to
dinner
and
Margaret
Oliver
make
what
"
you'd
what
can
Oh, how
Don't, Eileen.
"
they say?
and
afterward,
dance
done
you
they
What
by
the
time
times
this several
so
"
cruel !
difference
does
it
Teddy
Oh,
"
I love
I want
Eileen
missing this
you've given
chance
AUister
shocked.
deeply
Don't
delicate.
be
her.
Mrs.
"
know.
to
Mrs.
"
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OF
details.
the
Teddy
PLAYS
BEST
THE
250
She
is
are
you
truly
really and
and
holy lUy
pure
be
must
such
herself.
Oliver
What
"
got to do
You
"
Teddy
give
in.
He's
he
can
be !
Scottie
back, whether
Scottie
But
"
I've
like
Scottie
He'll
awfully
I.
It's
the
give
in.
"
wonderful
don't
so
his
But
only
If
going
to
in
actually
is not
out.
way
going
see.
be
to
Ted.
you,
Ted;
am.
heaven
he's
"
But
threatened
he
"
the
in
life.
my
too,
up,
"
to
generous
Teddy
slightestdent
under
do
you
Mr.
"
cut
way
way
take
angry
for him
wrong
with
to
the
Horribly
and
he's
"
not
or
got to
as
hours
agree
anyone
sorry
am
to
made
buU.
just
"
spent
him
marries
seen
So
never
get him
to
wrong
has
I haven't
never
"
he
Dad's
till I rot.
"
He's
that
raging
pieces. I'm
to
gone
Teddy
you
she
can
to.
got
trying
stay here!
yes,
reports
Gloucester
He's
can't
Oh
"
him.
You've
do, Ted?
to
something!
Eileen
as
going
if
you
"
know.
Teddy
Scottie
"
Teddy
"
divine
that's
back
to
have
him
can't
Money
Cutting
!
and
stuff.
me
off.
That's
and
"
Oh,
live
the
last
Ted,
without
(Scottie
touch!
I don't
tell him
of his money
cent
Scottie
You
Threatened?
"
or
not
care
You
nods.) Oh,
go straight
whether
ever
don't!
Don't
your
father.
lose
Now
your
see
head!
here,
"NICE
tell him
and
you'll
break
I won't
Teddy
I said
back
it
on
bit
never
I go
or
"
that
You
that
"
you.
don't
that
sorry, Scott, I don't love you
ScoTTiE
I'm
about
so
sorry
I could
Teddy
in
enough
to
go
do
we?
the
sit
ScoTTiE
1"eddy
Don't
"
ScoTTiE
But
try
rotten
worry!
we
loved
each
make
to
care
Why,
like
you
"
lot
whole
"
brave
well
other
tell the
don't
we
It'll all
that,
I do.
"
speech.
"
"
doesn't
Teddy
beg her
can't
to
and
yam,
people
if
stick
fishy
alone
as
the
here
it.
you
to
make
grateful, she
all
that,
think
up
"
is
Trevor
really plausible
it, after a while they could make
"All
WHch
gives Teddy an idea.
be half
can
possibly dig up won't
were
to
way
and
OUie
Both
know.
them,
they
beUeve
as
just
marry
that
see
perhaps,
not
whole
do?
to
as
I don't.
but
"
Ted.
only had money,
It's quite all right.
Yes, I know, I know.
what
dear
going
are
But, Ted
you
"
ScoTTiE
I'm
If I
"
Teddy
com6
And
Don't
.
"
you.
I'd
you?
fingersand
our
snap
tack.
on
If
wash.
could
we
you
myself!
"
out
come
kill
hurt
had,
way
the
"
business
if I go
and
me,
If
marry
know
meant
anjrthing about
"
to
It doesn't
myself
reputation
or
promised
in
can't
getting
It's
Scbtt.
everything
on
But
stuff?
me,
to.
want
are!
you
of
with
engagement
word, Ted,
my
you
if you
don^t
"
sort
serious
back
your
through.
give
stick
dad with
to
"
brick, boy,
do
can't
the
announce
"
you
You're
awfully, awfully
what
me
make
to
"
see
you
marry
it afterward.
try
'251
PEOPLE"
night.
I haven't
It's too
Scottie
much
did
Scott
even
to
have
and
told
expect
a
were
Aunt
even
drink
or
and
two
raged
went
walked
in
of
nowhere
and
1920-1921
and
"
talked
man
here
the
and
"
storm
young
into
"
the
and
there;
opened
the
fire
the
OF
over
"
door
the
out
by
sat
we
sleep
to
and
"
PLAYS
BEST
THE
52
and
"
talked
and
"
talked.
.
Eileen
And
"
Teddy
Scottie
"
Trevor
what
Oh
"
Scottie
was
sleeping.
was
That
was
of
careless
very
you,
Scottie.
Teddy
New
The
"
York
and
strange
thought
young
nice
of the
some
he
lived
people
he
said
man
in
had
then
he said the
things. And
I'd better
that
storm
going to last all night and
was
And
I
And
I said
I thought
I would.
bed.
to
go
took
the young
man's
light and opened that door and he
said there
that
he would
was
nothing to be afraid of
take
of me
that
his name
and
was
Billy Wade
care
and
that
he would
but
he would
again
never
see
me
and
I went
and
then
he said good-by
forget me
never
the
I came
down
in the morning
upstairs and when
did
met
asinine
rather
"
"
"
"
door
was
At
and
open
which
He
if
the
has
back, he
come
chance
Wade
Billy
moment
she
was
man
young
gone
appears
explains
to
still there
in
and
"
if she
way.
door-
the
Teddy,
"
to
see
had
or
was
by any
any
the
to
difficulty getting back
city. It isn't a very
he confesses, but it is the best he can
think
good excuse,
of.
To
which
Teddy replies that he really didn't need
an
now
excuse
that
to
he
come
back
is there
to
he
find
an
"old
verify
can
the
friend."
story
And
she
has
about
the night he blew
just been telling her friends
in so unexpectedly.
He
does so, and
picks out Scottie
the
the
bench.
But
still they are
as
asleep on
man
is a
skeptical. Particularly Hallie, who
sort,
catty
and
with
Scottie
Wilbur
frankly in love
anyway,
"
herself.
"NICE
Hallie
"
clever
as
strange
shall
How
I
from
our
I've
right
open.
and
lie and
Eileen
does
to
be
But
and
and
I've
wide
eyes
for
me.
sorry
do
expect
you,
my
think
to
world
I'm
telling
over
on
you.
understand.
don't
understand?
And
make?
what
I've asked
fool in the
What
difference
to
you
ference
dif-
does
believe
it
me
"
of
in
everything. A perfect stranger came
as
just as rotten
they possibly
things looked
but he was
big enough and kind enough to
spite
when
"
"
trust
"
that
it all looks
how
could
if you
Hallie!
me,
put something
to
don't
we
What
"
not
trying
But
"
Teddy
make
OUie,
to
with
mess
fault.
own
you,
man
young
anything,
anybody
my
have
bullheaded
with
beautiful
what
she
if the
biggest
and
away
want
absolutely
ridiculous
get
into
don't
the
stubborn
could
walked
And
me.
back
go
to
he
now
and
town
lie anybody
impossible
what
any
leaves
the
Billy
here
that
was,
you
of
Do
"
you
told
you
the
of.
You
can
Scottie, and
and
nobody
give a
don't
breaks
(Teddy
know.
she
I sat
to
it.
was
"
you
is
into
really don't
answer)
no
great difference
here
But
or
there
not
chair
in that
here
upstairs and
was
any
whether
mean
(There
night?
If it makes
Trevor
I've
don't.
you
You
most
also
knows
damn
and
tears
room.)
while
prove
"
heard
ever
think.
you
sees
say
not
going to marry
say I'm
what
I'm
going to do next
"
would
that
say
you
been
was
And
eyes.
own
skies?"
dare
you
know.
Eileen,
the
How
"
dare
can
with
man
fallen
thought
to
And
pricelessstory. You're
we've
the
actually seen
when
people say, "But
say
alone
all night with Scott
Wilbur
Teddy
in
deuce.
young
hadn't
It's
It's
253
we
been
"
(to Ted).
the
as
PEOPLE"
"
isn't
he
one
I'll do
was
believe
I told
you
till morning
"
asleep
there.
the
other
or
way
anything
anjrthing
was
you
on^earth
can
do
to
it,old
prove
for it
Billy
And
{Looking from
Oliver
Billy
Of
so
it.
you
case
It isn't
word.
Gloucester's
see
she
everything
believe
you
says.
"
last
friends
Scottie
the
"
I could
We'll
thing
best
win
father's
beat
blaze
much
her, what
believe
and
think
is too
experience
won't
Probably
the
and
anybody
eVer
the
we'll
our
get
settlement
sordidness
"
to
say
of
shocked,
at
him
marrying
Billy
Teddy
I suppose.
to
"
Is
You
"
"
My
Scottie.
to
go
save
I'U
.
make
suggestion
very
me
is
man
young
that
will
be
to
the
of it
transaction
whole
it is not
for my
to
wedding
bat.
.
That
manying
That's
"
Teddy
Billy
He's
"
the
fool
properly shocked
view, but secretly he is
fact, is quite likely to
admits
marriage.
Teddy
noble
thing she is doing.
Teddy
we
marry
gorgeous
don't
make
the
tries
Teddy's
in
Everybody,
Billy.
except
pleased.
pleased
if
and
Scottie
neat."
to
now,
you
all, is
most
right off
divorce
on
very
If her
of others?
expect
she
do, after
to
have
had
Teddy.
for
can
not
course?
"
This
the
of
"
her well
you're her friends and you know
her
couldn't
enough to doubt
possibly be rotten
She's
lucky to have such good friends to
way.
I'll wait outside
I think
by and fight for her.
knows
she isn't lying.
who
she needs
somebody
stand
be
word
my
it further.
I
"
word
your
course,
in any
in
Yes
"
Miss
take
take
to
Oliver.)
to
discuss
to
necessary
Trevor
We
"
take
do
you
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us
is to
all there
that's
"
just ask
You
man.
and
"
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
254
at
well
be
amazed,
of
such
particularly
and
money
I'm
reputation.
my
hell!
it?
It's
don't
father
often
have
has
to
a
done,
do
you
that.
right
to
know.
force
me
into
it,
"NICE
Billy
He
"
Teddy
has
isS
not.
What
"
PEOPLE"
did
think
you
when
you
found
your
eyes
that
me
here?
Billy
"
have
didn't
Teddy
knew
when
anything
to
But
"
think
you
Yes
should
Christopher
and
man
make
don't
Billy
could
come
put
'"
"
Teddy
Billy
only
out.
way
in
You're
done
much
bad
but
"
you
Billy
"
thousand
Teddy
I've
year,
which
it
but
me?
own
very
doesn't
of
job
million
what
to
fell for
me.
After
it
"
And
saw
you
coming
was
into
it.
and
Government
for
do
up
like
I went
when
the
from
it could
to
up?
got just
crooked
was
stole
business,
Yes.
"
seemed
my
it?
does
just thrown
aU
that
so
"
gives
pays
of my
place
live?
Dad
then
year
over,
to
ten
me.
it
Given
"
Billy
dad
Well,
a
little
this
if I throw
much
money.
know.
and
thousand
and
mother
my
you
year
any
n"ed
I don't
know.
three
I have
debts.
hasn't
do
money
I don't
"
if she
for
twenty-five thousand
what
"
big.
How
"
Teddy
man
worse
it's not.
she's
and
"
I knew
in
the
of
why
name
crimp in your whole life
a
thing now
marry
"
girl
leave
by
"
"
Billy
from
common,
reckless
man.
me
be
By
"
Teddy
a
just
to
deadly
How?
"
Billy
the
out
Teddy
love?
No,
"
did
But
much
"
It's
"
do.
that
do
you
you
Teddy
"
here
you
hide.
out
Billy
saw
and
do
you
the
to
I knew
called
stuck
know
other
it
because
what
night
me.
the
big
of
pened
hap-
I hated
it
and
it won't
can
look
I don't
about
The
"
the
one
job
but
"
And
free.
I'm
same
know
way.
talking
you're
what
Teddy
back
It doesn't
"
what
Billy
got
Do
you
"
Teddy
"
never
can
going
to
do
ike
Billy
can
you
Teddy
"
hate
it
I want
not.
or
it?
.
I don't
or
"
what
think
dare
I'm
{She puts
oh, I know.
"
with
it
hate
myself
let
know
sob.)
in the
why
of God
name
do
anything you're
(going to the door) But I
do
you
ashamed
do
"
want
you
you?
whether
dare
table
Then
"
Do
take.
to
but
"
this:
don't
or
through.
"
on
to
matter
don't
come
head
How
I've
is
point
whole
you're going
what
her
be
don't
and
"
got
Billy
It's
You
"
get another
face
can't
I haven't
it.
to
easy
ia the
so
myself
why you
see
Teddy
be
1920-1921
OF
chucked
and
back
I went
so
PLAYS
BEST
THE
2s6
it ?
of?
live without
can't
father.
my
Billy
What's
the
reason
I'll
yourself.
outdoors.
you'll help
me.
Teddy
Teddy
put
what
Teddy
not
got
Billy
don't
Billy
Teddy
do
I know
How
"
how
see
you
I do.
"
"
I don't
it
how
But
you
belong
sit
up
"
if
"
hands.
how.
I'll go
you.
halves.
I'll
"
good
you
with
think
you
of
care
farm
own
know
help
if I work
"
"
"
Teddy
"
place?
take
where
little
your
I'll
can
little
help?
with
"
Oh
"
fool
could
got into
I've
this
make
Learn.
"
That's
you.
I can't.
"
all I've
could
Work
"
Billy
help
this
You
can't?
you
How
"
Billy
With
{following her).
"
my
are
If I
hands
own
can
take
care
of you
to
believe
try
"
of
with
"
if I'm
myself
can.
wonderful
in
me.
can.
in
Believe
it's all
so
yourself.
strange.
I've
never
done
"NICE
PEOPLE"
Don't
"
ever
life.
my
afraid.
"
cutting
I'm
You're
in your
life.
I'm
No, I'm not.
were
Teddy
be
257
stronger
myself
than
now
I may
awfully weak.
fail.
Billy
to
You
"
can't.
You've
something
of
for.
fight
Teddy
I'll
"
Billy
No
"
Teddy"
I'll try.
try.
you're going
"
I will!
I will!
Act
For
got hold
three
it!
I will!
III
in
and
three
approaches
kind
of
avoided
will
even
subject.
the
save
to
have
able
been
from
all three
future,
the
has
them
decision
Gloucester
determined
Billy
of
and
immediate
Mr.
has
been
not
thing
any-
number,
the
that
venture,
boast
growing
for
Aimt
Teddy,
of the
success
to
her
months
do
to
soil.
the
know
have
to
be
has
occasional
nothing
Now
the
more
made
each
report
to
winter
that
some
their
to
as
has
been
living
studiously
heard
that
do
he
from
is still
with
his
daughter
until
she
comes
back
scratch
in their hearts
though
Little
to
to
to
PLAYS
BEST
THE
2S8
OF
1920-1921
borne
is now
fact
that
a
gestion of compromise,
and
out
quite unexpected arrival at the
by his sudden
He
is not, however,
in a particularly promising
cottage.
his sister-inof mind.
He
frame
frankly accuses
law
of having
been
party to the conspiracy to keep
Teddy
from
away
Gloucester
get mixed
{to Margaret).
"
in another
up
Margaret
kept
told
you
informed
me
me
"
mean
you
haven't
Why
"
you
do
warned
haven't
Ted
let
If you've
affair and
What
"
Gloucester
haven't
him.
Why
me?
everjrthing
about
she
doing?
was
Margaret
about
Didn't
Theodora?
needed
Gloucester
an3rthing
you
give her
you
What
"
Margaret
told
I have
up
when
she
most
you
should
Why
"
"
is this
thing
You'll
have
to
The
story
is
here?
out
tell
what
me
you
mean.
Gloucester
another
boy
asleep.
and
here
was
to
for
Ted
love
making
to
Margaret
storm
being
yes
"
and
"
terrified
of
the
And
Yes
Margaret
"
"
and
and
"
is
it.
He
facts.
in out
came
and
"
The
kept
her
"
he
did
boy
of the
from
but
back?
come
not
because
he
wants
money.
Gloucester
ten-
up
night.
that
"
denly
sud-
so
here
money
bare
Billy Wade.
her
stayed with
"
gave
come
of
some
"
she
Is it true?
"
Gloucester
Margaret
her
drunk
was
much?
Some
"
he
to
wants
yes
"
How
"
That
Is it true?
No
Scott
reason
York
New
he
her.
"
Gloucester
here
that
"
Margaret
was
in
job
the
that
town
over
while
night
boy was
Scott.
marry
thousand-dollar
work
this
That
refused
that
all
But
Yes.
he
But
did
"
give
up
his job ?
her
"NICE
Gloucester
But
"
Good
money!
taken
PEOPLE"
because
not
Heavens,
in like that
259
he
Margaret,
Why,
the
her
wants
been
have
fellow's
you
bounder
an
"
adventurer.
Margaret
Gloucester
let Ted
be
hits
best
in
me
the
seems
yet
"
But
"
It's
keep
Hallie
wants
and
desperation broke
Hallie
And
thing
this
now
it
and
"
Gloucester
and
there's
night
Ted
give Scott up.
but
her
"
got him
hasn't
word
it
and
told
this.
face.
your
Of
plain.
and
course
"
Hubert
"
and
It's very
yes.
it's all colored
no
"
Wilbur
on
They
"
Margaret
"
nose
Oh
they
me
'
Scott
the
as
"
told
it would
thought
Eileen
tells
yes, it is.
still
to tell it
never
to
Margaret
such
her.
sworn
plain
as
for
gullible?
so
it isn't true.
Oh
"
in
because
you
earth
on
be
you
head.
Gloucester
all
could
with
thing
Margaret
had
How
"
stay here
the
Hubert!
Oh,
"
Hubert
don't
You
believe
stuff!
,
Gloucester
know
I don't
"
(sitting). Oh,
"
Margaret
and
turned
beautiful
against
Gloucester
the
hear
And
it with
be
fed
love
to
her?
Margaret
garet
Mar-
what
do.
paid
for that
this
now
to
"
distorted
been
one
really
and
no,
ears
taken
been
I haven't.
like
sound
can't
that
in, Margaret.
I happen
to know
fairy story if you
believe
in
anything
disinterested.
Gloucester
Ted
or
has
"
it does
sordid
and
unselfish
certainly
thing. And
has
thing
You've
Oh
"
truth.
think
despair,
her.
"
Margaret
to
Teddy
"
foolish, headstrong
good
what
in
I'm
"
on
up
"
that
You'll
and
have
And
God!
(rising).
Is
"
to
ask
this
Ted
you've let
fellow making
that.
PLAYS
BEST
THE
26o
1920-1921
OF
Gloucester
Billy
Is
"
Teddy
Billy
"
flowers
what
hope
It
amuses
Teddy
beautiful
Teddy
And
jump
of my
Of
"
from
idea
dimmest
the
been
It's
most
life.
another
just
like it?
but
necessary,
were
along
it won't
things
making
"
fun.
little
is just
farm
else.
something
to
the
see
them.
matter.
climbing
the
and
the
make
to
if it
the
This
tea?
out
come
haven't
want
you
that's
"
to
whole
course,
it's
"
Billy
'em
Would
"
for
out
so.
doesn't
simimer
Billy
better
That
very
coraing
they
through
gone
"
that
but
bloom,
you've
be.
anybody
"
do
to
I'm
springboard
a-
not
afraid
to
of money,
Gosh
!
it.
But,
always make
sick of measuring
aren't
everything with
money?
you
I want
to do
things that are worth
some
doing whether
make
damned
cent
not
they ever
things
a
or
some
that
worth
losing money
just because
are
on
you
And
that
worth
to
want
some
are
spending all
try.
be
to
can
just because
they ought
get on
you
Good
Ted.
work
will
"
"
"
"
done.
Teddy
Billy
"
Billy
tell you
"
you
"
things
"
used
never
found
I've
known
course
for
people, Billy.
other
Yes.
"
Teddy
oh
Of
"
out
I want
"
Me,
about.
too
I'm
to
so
think
much
everybody
"
I've
of that
myself
else to
at
"
all
"
since
but,
I've
know.
great schemes
got some
But
awfully ambitious, Ted.
to
"NICE
have
work
to
tackle
the
Teddy
look
be
But
"
friends
Billy
Teddy
"
How
going
Billy
Teddy
world
to
comes
anjrway.
Billy
Teddy
since
"
any
at
well
me?
the
any
thing
and
you
be
ever
What
then
we'd
could
you
I've
Aren't
when
tell you
of it ending.
way
You
did
"
didn't
you
"
It
"
began
look
Billy
"
"
think
Look
you?
together,
on
go
?
me
marry
that for granted
always taken
think
can
the
unless
"
I can't
is it?
other
any
to
got
else?
else
me.
I've
me?
anything
anything
and
"
since
"
'ne
mean
you
than
more
me.
and
you
there
end
Why,
"
about
That's
imaf
an
Do
"
No
you.
you'll be bored.
for
we?
I can't
"
and
"
it will
together forever?
Are
"
and
coming
to
got
bored?
be
can
be
to
out
first to
we've
lonelier
"
about
it.
How
"
ahead
matter
there
can
things
Winter's
be
how
That's
"
Teddy
we
And
help.
coming
you
the money
I'll
summer
It doesn't
"
Billy
face.
on
Will
"
are
the
count
Teddy
face.
the
than
to
that.
there
in
square
harder
261
big things.
Oh, I like
"
Billy
PEOPLE"
at
it
me.
was
(She
Isn't that
the
liftshis head and holds it in her hands)
{He kisses her.)
you've always thought it was?
way
realize
Billy
whether
Oh
Ted, I don't know
you
all you've
to give up
what
it would
really mean
yet
had
forever.
To
at the very
begin all over
again
What
bottom.
if you
find you just can't get on without
"
"
"
"
it?
You'd
Teddy
It's what
doing.
may
be
hate
do
Why
"
we'll
The
do
end
two
things that no
the magic is.
then.
me
that
is in
great
one
think
you
about
what
And
we'll
matters.
us
birds
has
"
"
ever
in
not
you
seen
anything
and
I.
before.
We
I've
never
had?
stop
We
else.
see
may
It's
in
us
THE
262
BEST
PLAYS
It's in you.
of anything.
{He kisses
Billy
their
that.
problems
the
Soon
something
individually they try
realize
must
she
will
has
been
make
in
Ted
give
to
afraid
not
accustomed.
as
and
again
out
the
complication.
Severally and
that.
Surely
see
think
may
the
up
easily settled
is
happen.
Billy
must
able
long
so
hand
to
I'm
as
town
that, however
be
never
me
quite
from
Certainly
he
be
can't
further
love
lips.)
her
crowd
have
to
eager
1920-1921
If you
"
But
OF
life to
she
feels,
which
she
will
everybody
And
been
about
to
excitement.
That's
all she's
out
to
new
contact
a
new
Billy
done
and
why
she's
It
And
been
was
she's
fellows
many
likes
She
amazing
novelty and you
so
she'd
about
come
never
flirted with
new
were
in
you
from
this?
You
altogether."
Eileen, why
"
how
didn't.
Something
before.
standpoint
I know
marry
here.
her, Billy.
with
"
tells him.
are
you
telling me
friend.
"
and
I'm
telling
you
because
it would
be the worst
honestly think if she married
you
both.
to
You
possible thing that could happen
you
don't realize you're only a new
experience to her.
Billy
"
can
talce
care
of
myself,
I think.
"NICE
Eileen
I've
"
that,
thought
PEOPLE"
seen
good
Poor
too.
263
other
many
old
Ollie
hasn't
people who
given up
hope yet.
Billy
Oliver
"
Eileen
Of
"
Comstock?
You
cotirse.
don't
you're going
think
fare any
better
than
and
he has
with all his charm
all his money,
do you
?
It's because
I like you
much,
so
Billy, I'm sa3dng this. And, by Jove! I know
you're
to
"
decent
too
going
for
back
to
hang
to
all the
onto
her
and
wonderftd
try
that
things
her
keep
to
from
waiting
are
her.
Ted,
suggestion sets
Billy thinking. But
blithely ignorant of Eileen's warning, goes merrily on
William
Wade.
She
dreaming of her future as Mrs.
laughs heartily at her friends' suggestion that she is
merely pretending to like the farm, and startles them
further
by announcing her intention of staying there all
for me
winter.
"The
joke of it is you're all sorry
"I've
of my
and
I'm having the time
life," says she.
The
discovered
half
when
answers
more
am
that
too
much
cheats people
money
of
out
And
again,
thrilling things in the world."
is looking altogether fit, she
she
they admit
I'm
No
husky.
coiu-se
exultantly: "Of
I sleep all night and
smokes
nerves.
no
more
the
"
"
interested
all
day.
It's
to
great
feel
this
way.
even
would
you
get
so
"
out
from
leave
has
had
reasonable
some
the
house
just
in
his
to
answer
time
to
problem,
see
Instinctively he
Teddy's side.
been
proposing again. In which
arrived
Ted's
answer:
adore
having
minute
sooner
"Don't,
people
Oliver
propose
"
to
Oliver
Comstock
knows
that
Ollie
he is
right.
If he
please.
me
"
heard
have
would
he
comes
now
the
used
more
to
the
THE
264
better.
PLAYS
BEST.
But
I've had
OF
1920-1921
enough
to
last
thrill
now
in
the
me
of my
rest
life."
To
Billy
Ollie
is
him
make
"unfitness."
his
in
had
he
of
his
own
first words
Teddy's
firm
con-
I'm
going
pride's all
guilty
So
you.
than
more
demands,
he
it for
schemes
No,
they
do?
to
now
ever
though
as
secret.
can
you
go
with
on
schemes.
My
"
money
discovered
and
"
"What?"
I want
"
dreams
are
conge.
conscious
more
Oliver
as
I want
suddenly
Teddy
will take
I'm
I'm
gone.
And
can't.
going
going
do
dad
to
to
of themselves.
care
know
you
and
tell him
what
tell him
how
my
wonderful
"
Billy
You'll
"
Teddy
me
she,
life."
my
Billy
you
his
thought that
It merely
the
conclusions.
Teddy
your
all the
Unconsciously
"Billy," says
been
thinking.
did
no
being given
probably
to
serves
is
there
do
He'll
"
be
anybody
marry
nothing of
so
proud of
splendid.
so
the
"
So
you.
I'm
glad
going
to
have
him
to
"
tomorrow.
Billy
Not
"
Teddy
Billy
"
couldn't
it?
want
Billy
It
"
Teddy
to
have
what
to
course
Who
"
"
what
Oliver
does?
has.
You
Billy
"
want
your
But
Of
me.
They
money.
else.
Why
shouldn't
yours.
"
about
won't.
Billy
Teddy
It's mine.
feel your
"
anything
I will.
think
They
think
anything
Teddy
you
Of
"
tell him
to
I want
want
for
course
stupid.
I want
everybody
it
yourself
"
to
I want
you
respect
you
to
you
you
have
and
mean.
you.
you're
tired
of
this
"
why
"NICE
shouldn't
Billy, don't
"
Billy
"
I have
something
has
pretty
what
been
new
opened
said
Fool
eyes.
my
and
"
just
you've
it into
throwing
to
me
wouldn't
me
now
"
I should
say
been.
Teddy
Somebody's
supposed to
"
times
I've
great
very
which
you
didn't
think
have
wouldn't
think
to
nothing
review
my
do
to
the
Billy
do.
shake
whole
life
for
part of
new
me.
me
"
faith
your
what
doubt
I've given
you
You'll
the old excitement
want
"
did
that
make
or
"
if I
done
sillyand
pretty
you
many
I've
nice
could
earth
on
love.
were
was
necessary
was
how
you
in
been
things which
many
it
told
kindly
to
me
and
"
nasty.
only
But
"
be
always
it.
yourself
and
dull
pretty
They've
was
believe
It's
26s
"
Teddy
that
be?
you
grubby
PEOPLE"
to
in
you.
so
can't
you
it.
stand
Teddy
Are
"
all my
friends
Billy
I'm
I
"
can't
"
of view.
of them.
After
I love
you
you've
had
Teddy
and
"
Of
"
shouldn't
Why
I'm
my
you
expect
I can't
"
And
do.
into
come
take
it, Ted
want
you
friends.
asking
not
I know
course
you
like
can
God!
but
"
to
you
just
all,how
My
"
"
"
change
Billy
everything
up
give up anything.
make
myself over
entirely.
and
old habits
feelingsand point
asking
not
all my
I'm
I can't.
I can't
give
to
me
forever?
"
"
Teddy
asking
you
my
I'm
me
to
you
to
world
change?
change.
the
place
you
want
it for
I want
and
one
of
all
it.
you.
be
body
some-
you
to
in it ?
Billy
happy,
"
Because
Ted
you
think
I'm
going
"
is
to
and
worth
clear
despise it.
what
get
while
out
so
in
But
I want
you
want
the
whole
you'll get
it
"
and
game.
quick.
ba
what
And
BEST
THE
266
He
not
hears
call him
her
her
won't
have
money
my
"How
reports.
could
Fortunately
father
he
as
can
come?
been
she
than
she
He
or
But
Neither
will
and
has
she
been
inquires
anybody
thought
'
stood
to
happier
separation
the
any
reasonable
him
again.
sell the
Will
she
you,"
away.
loves
She
has
she
never
right
place.
than
promise
com-
wanted
come
long
as
has
"There
can't
there
Ted's
moment
I haven't
she
agree
she
me,"
him?"
psychological
when
"
he
says
answers.
has
hour
an
stunned,
"Billy
marry
ever
does
he
little
love
willing to make
his daughter with
to have
She
will, Teddy
agrees.
confesses.
she
you
but
away,
won't
is
and
day
do
this
at
her.
finds
he
"More
anything,"
love
and
much
Rainsford.
Mrs.
walks
standing there,
finds
her.
Margaret
Aunt
when
he
as
1920-1921
is still
She
turn.
OP
PLAYS
it
been
ever
before.
"Tut,"
than
you
says
ever
father; "I'm
have
goiag
make
happier
by giving
just happens that
to
in your
whole
want."
it
But
been
you
life
...
everything you
what
can't be bought.
And
the story
Teddy wants
so
of Billy and
his refusal to marry
and
her
Ted
money
is told.
The
be
Gloucester.
insane, concludes
boy must
it probably is a blessing in disguise. 'TwUl
However,
be easier to get away
and forget him.
Shall they tour
the
world?
Or
in London?
Or
buy a house
get a
yacht and go cruising?
you
Teddy
Oh,
"
always
you
want
buy
to
something,
dad.
Gloucester
can't
be
Teddy
"
I know
"
Teddy
things
many
that
"
I'll buy
"
one
thing
that
can't
and
"
it's the
I want.
Gloucester
"
know
bought.
only thing
fellow
Well, I don't
Now,
him
I'd like to
see
for
see
here, Ted, if
you.
you
try it.
you.
want
this
"NICE
Gloucester
Get
"
Margaret
I'll
"
(Margaret
you.
Gloucester
But
Do
happy.
same
things
that
into the
dear
is he ?
and
come
speak
to
house)
child, I
make
to
want
you
that
made
have
to
seem
ideas
own
my
said
have
of
this
being
me
me
go
was
Don't
"
were
it
put
of
one
the
girlsin
successful
most
Ted.
thick,
too
on
York.
Teddy
Yes
"
make
to
want
all, you
New
will
Where
happy.
you
what
several
people
you
Gloucester
After
him.
make
That's
afternoon.
267
Get
if he
see
My
"
"
him.
goes
PEOPLE"
me
you
did
for
you
can
do
of
"
course
To
success.
Don't
me.
for
things helped
nothing of what
say
think
you
dad.
me,
all those
"
One
don't
of
side
all
want
it
wants
me
awfully.
Gloucester
Teddy
"
And
"
But
you're going
side
another
that
that
things
but
things
at
me
for.
world
It's
that
"
and
you
Billy
him
thanks
would,
worth
you
being
happy
un-
in
something
anything
the
about.
also
much
there.
Teddy.
he
good"
of New
"Why
with
cotild
in
York
New
"
don't
casts
rather
Then,
he
things
could, like
if he
appraising
diplomatically he
Gloucester
Gloucester,
"something
met
are
knew
never
Mr.
comes
payment,
think
that
have
touched
never
there's
"
him.
over
eye
Mr.
dad
Why,
more
"
When
He
all
"
found
has
me
it
not
"
"
and
of
have
to
to
has
done
you
most
buy
Billy
Perhaps,
put Billy
but
York,
or
for Theodora.
him.
repay
thanks.
an
in
of the
him,
clines
de-
suggests
the
way
of
Billy doesn't
people he has
dad?"
calls
BEST
THE
268
Have
Gloucester
her
to
Have
mind?
can't
marry
decided
when
loved
it
possibly
with
she
her
wants
that
Mr.
money
Gloucester.
and
me
dad.
give
He
know
didn't
love
you
take
won't
absolutely
up,
thought
you
"
money,
give
insufferable
the
"
Billy
you
the
of
your
What?
"
"
changed
then
idea
daughter
my
"
Teddy
It's
has
her
Gloucester
any
and
to
that?
"
love
faintest
Theodora
Billy
1920-1921
made
you
the
of
impertinence
and
marry
you
OP
you
"
asked
"
PLAYS
now.
me
it,
with
me
everything
"
have
so
could
you
me.
Steady,
Gloucester
"
Ted.
talking
You're
very
big.
Teddy
I
way
was
hour
an
anything
For
(crossing
"
in
the
second
ago
is
eyes
flirted
and
adoring,
awful
an
if
you're
"
love
voice
says
I'll
her
arms
the
"
"Ted
the
kill
only
his
Then
tone
of
light
in
know
girl
in
alterable
un-
his
you've
"
my
life
"
you."
around
"
Curtain
her.
still
but
than
me?
at
is
the
just
better
marry
that.
(The
I'm
you
"
you're
me
(putting
Teddy
dear
he
love
stares
There
his
lot, but
fooling
you
Wade
in
as
Will
complete.
defiance
Billy,
and
"
world.
Billy
is
capitulation
Billy).
to
Falls)
his
neck).
Go
on,
"THE
An
American
By
of
the
Browne
The
Lopez.
in
border
Smith
Henry
of
after
year
American
found
bandits
Mexican
to
save
Hardy,
day
the
Jones
out,
much
Gilbert
what's
property
the
sheriff
he
is
is
his
to
"
the
You
to
county,
belongings
of
disgust
act
as
the
though
happened.
269
living
with
his
the
when
and
In
ranch
such
effort
an
Jasper
to
play
opens
the
Hardy.
to
getting
Henry.
Uncle
were
in
worthless.
preparatory
testy
him.
and
cattle
by
0,000
uncle,
enlisted
the
foreclosed
be
his
the
and
|i
from
failed.
mortgaged
the
of
mortgage
packing
had
Mexican
the
but
practically
of
Pancho
American,
France,
most
planted
been
the
in
though
the
Jones
property
Porter
bandit,
young
is
young
stolen
had
had
as
crops
his
it
of
near
who
service
saw
in
name
ranch,
Me.,
declares
It
proceedings,
borrowed
was
Theater
Mexican
ranch
the
purchase
army,
returned
he
it
Bangor,
the
that
Jones,
of
bought
in
the
cattle
owner
he
June.
under
Gilbert
Arizona.
which
with
is
till
the
successes
Comedy
former
of
him
scene
ostensible
the
the
early
the
the
theme
hero
disguises
thinly
of
through
of
as
Brown
at
ran
Acts
Three
one
employs
Villa,
Francisco
is
it
1920,
timeliness
Emerson
he
was
Produced
30,
certain
in
Emerson
MAN"
season.
August
MAN"
Drama
Porter
BAD
"THE
BAD
to
blame
for
THE
270
Smith
to
OF
in the
Gilbert
first
1920-1921
Why
"
war
PLAYS
BEST
did
That's
place?
to
want
you
had
"
go
it.
started
what
to
go.
Smith
Mebbe
"
Gilbert
Why
"
Smith
Gilbert
those
in
steaks
softer
than
are
all this
buy
this
country,
do
here
going
lots
to
seU
the
here
in
this
until
when
you
goin' to
have
I'm
"
First
"
you
Gilbert
Smith
Red
I go almost
nothin'
but
cook
can't
Gilbert
Smith
and
foreman
{scornfully). Yes,
"
never
worst
of
use
There's
me
down
ranch
I left the
"
them
aU
The
over
old
of
use.
and
home
God-forsaken
and
that
An'
can
essential.
on
the
use?
persuade
rotten
harmonicy
we
if you
"
Smith
to
and
go
Gilbert
even
top of
on
meat.
the
What's
"
you
cook
And
an
again?
Here
the
us
of
support
silent)
industry
is
feed
you
the
sole
Uncle, what's
Now,
"
Smith
me
exemption.
the
essential
an
rotten
Gilbert
and
asked
"
that, engaged
bones
"
"
invalid
[ call
have
Exemption?
as
Absolutely
tmcle.
{As Gilbert
Smith
didn't
you
not
could
You
"
But
so.
sorry.
rob
you
to
got
say
I did
"
If that's
"
is like!
foreclose
is
An'
the
your
now
today.
By
me
an'
crazy,
firecrackers
dinner
no
cook.
Giddings,
and
playin'
Mexican
An'
{Pause) Say,
I'm htmgry.
'em!
want
the
then
not
ain't
starve
you
me.
you're sorry!
best
best
we're
I could.
I'd
hate
broke
goUies!
to
an'
Mebbe
see
what
yer
they're goin'
they've
closed
fore-
already!
Gilbert
Smith
"
"
No.
Eight
Not
o'clock
till
eight o'clock
tonight?
tonight.
"THE
Gilbert
Smith
MAN"
271
Yes.
"
You're
"
BAD
Courts
crazy.
don't
stay
at
open
night.
Gilbert
This
"
where
judge
he
does.
told
the
Somebody
bottle of liquor for eighteen
court
could
get
dollars.
Smith
there
So
"
if
don't
we
without
no
And
much.
home
more
then
It is Uncle
why
idea
that
set
talk
the
satisfactorilyadjusted if Gilbert
Angela Harding, the daughter of
is intent
in Gilbert.
love
he is secretly
Lucia
Lucia, and
marry
for
fortune
Pells
The
bounder.
several
have
weeks
is
Lucia
Gilbert,
are
been
both
ranch
He
does
visitors
at
not
of
in love
with
too
poor
make
to
rich
young
and
for
Arizona,
the Jones
still in
and
in
memory
was
Pell,
in
the
ranch.
with
love
mentioning
studiously avoided
Uncle
enough of
Henry, knowing
have
affair.
former
the
left home
Morgan
now
he
that
had
Pell
with
unhappy
but
he
keep
nursing the
was
deeply
time
married
she
her
after
he
reason.
is interested
and
interested.
is not
can
holding
man
and
her
marry
Gilbert
Angela, and
romance
their
not
But
family?
the
to
Why
as
situation
will listen to
getting married
on
not
"
it!
about
the
bricks
the
on
whole
be
mortgage,
out
dollars
prairie dog
say
you
Henry's
we're
than
thousand
ten
get
Lucia
to
scent
trouble, has
feelings toward
the match
between
enlisted her aid in bringing about
and
the plan in motion
He
sets
and
Gilbert
Angela.
Gilbert's
Gilbert
leaves
Lucia
"
shakes
Gil.
you
I've
for it.
Lucia
and
Gilbert
Then
we
his head)
had
alone
tells her
won't
see
I don't
wonderful
talk
it
giving
up
to
of his
each
other
quite
time.
the
ranch.
bert
(Gil-
again.
know
I
For
over.
want
what
to
to
say,
thaiik
BEST
THE
272
Gilbert
"
Lucia
"
Though
it does
should
were
Gilbert
went
"
"
away.
after
years!
all
we
years!
though
these
talk
You
that
"
as
didn't
Gil, why
these
it ?
I am,
"
Lucia
other
again.
meet
to
doesn't
"
I want.
thanks
hundred.
Lucia
happened
we
each
All
"
is all the
here
you
strange
seem
across
run
Gilbert
you
Having
I'm
glad
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
to
come
you
see
when
(Pause.)
before
me
you
went
you
away.
Gilbert
I don't
"
Lucia
You
"
coming
even
Gilbert
Lucia
good-by.
say
was
and
broke
"
"
Huh?
"
But
all
you're
right
Gil ?
you,
Gilbert
without
knowing;
my
(crossesto Gilbert).
"
aren't
now,
without
went
to
"
know.
Oh
I'm
yes!
my,
doing
didly
splen-
now.
Lucia
I'm
"
was
Lucia
But
haven't
you
swered
an-
question.
my
Gilbert
It
glad, GU!
so
About
"
coming
not
my
pride, I suppose.
Very foolish
pride.
"
It
to
hurt
good-by
say
me
great
deal.
Gilbert
Lucia
do
"
anything
It
Did
you
until
did
I, Gil?
couldn't
You
going
only pride
was
think
I had
"
somewhere
was
something
even
me
you,
You?
"
"
Gilbert
offend
done
to
I didn't
now.
do
offend
anything
to
me.
Lucia
Gil!
I had
thought
to
Gilbert
offend
sorry.
it's worried
And
you.
I'm
"
and
to
so
buy
back
an
Because
little of
hoped
come
me
you
as
were
that?
pick a fortune
and
surprise you
to
automobile
"
one
poor
of
off
with
those
tree
it.
low
"THE
ones
long
as
and
"
as
Pullman
dashing
through
come
for a ride
you
I even
had
that
anywhere
tree
At
least
Gilbert
weigh
in this
in
boss
mine,
coal
Gilbert
"
you.
Lucia
"
Gilbert
"
Lucia
think
to
We're
"
Lucia
wife.
Some
Gilbert
war
tell
to
news
of you.
care
But
it
ought
to
be
like to go
; I don't
"
alone.
"
uncle.
need
You
Gil.
mother
be
Please
"
the
woman
"
you.
those?
All
"
Lucia
to
one
punched
keeper.
old friends
joke,
Don't
"
and
me?
to
take
to
"
more.
Gil?
marry,
one
such
any
then
good
some
of you
Gilbert
for
you're right.
maybe
or
fortune
railroad
that
write
ever
some
I guess
guardian;
Lucia
need
on
here, and
you
autumn.
a
find
after
come
you
don't
Why
Marry?
"
and
waiting
was
You
"
Gilbert
a
didn't
Wlw
"
take
Gil?
timekeeper
was
I got imcle to
started, and that's all.
Lucia
I couldn't
do,
you
until
cows
be
to
was
did
Well, I
"
But
It
roses
and
door
front
your
hiUs.
the
fillit full of
and
"
to
up
273
I guess
What
"
MAN"
car
fixed.
...
not
"
Lucia
BAD
serious, Gil.
_
Gilbert
Lucia
(a
"
Gilbert
it takes
Lucia
"
puzzled). Why?
minute
begin
you
bit
The
"
that
you
But
don't
you,
Gil?
To
have
when
you
go;
to
laugh
when
the
with
you
Don't
see
you
you
take
To
a
when
are
you
man
see, Gil?
what
it would
always here;
one
greet you
when
to
ously,
life seri-
way.
some
things go wrong.
understanding, that
heart.
to, Lucia.
dare
I don't
"
you
come
mean
to
kiss
back;
to
you
to
comfort
glad and
you
the sjrmpathy,
give you
finds only in a woman's
THE
274
Gilbert
Lucia
Then
"
happy
you
very
understand.
Gilbert
Lucia
since
known
such
to
you
Don't
front of Lucia).
I've always
you
suppose
for
Then
Gil ?
when,
{He
nods) You
{He nods again)
woman?
cared
you
make
in
siace
She'd
Gil?
you,
I want
like that.
you
stood,
under-
"
Ever
"
woman
Don't
I do?
ever
don't
why
"
1920-1921
see.
{slops
"
suppose
And
Yes, I
"
OF
PLAYS
BEST
her?
you
have
have
You
loved
her?
Gilbert
{hoarsely).
"
Lucia
still love
You
"
Yes.
.
I want
is she,
Who
her
.
Gil?
know.
to
Gilbert
Don't
"
know?
you
stand
they
room.
.
Hardy,
his
the
with
man
the
mortgage,
arrives
to
plete
com-
the property,
taking over
interest.
which
Pell,
unexpectedly
develops a new
has surreptitiously been
who
examining the soil of the
and
place, suddenly offers to pay off the mortgage
give
additional
for
his
When
$10,000
Jones an
equity.
the
offer
to
$30,000 if
Hardy objects, Pell increases
Jones will give him a ten-day option to complete payment.
Then
Uncle
Henry discovers the dirt samples in
Pell's bag and
realizes that
Pell is buying
the
ranch
because
he
believes
ranch, instead
be
and
worth
his
Gilbert
to
hold
about
arrangements
of
sees
the
no
worth
being
hundreds
nephew
is oil to be
there
of
are
chance
property
be
of
of dollars.
cheated
raising
before
there.
practicallynothing,
thousands
to
found
the
eight
out
money
o'clock
of
The
may
And
it!
he
Still,
necessary
that
night
"THE
and
is
ready
arouses
his
about
Pell
through
Henry
that
nephew's
the
accepts
which
option,
Pell
to
And
of
matters
and
Gilbert
Pell
do
"
You
"
thing
one
Gilbert
Pell
has
I'm
Lucia
Pell
all that
man.
Well?
seriously?
(To Lucia) Well,
took
you
that
him?
Do
Certainly
"
(pause;
"
love
you
her?
not.
looks
both).
at
You're
of
couple
liars.
rotten
Gilbert
Pell
But
Gilbert
Pell
feUow,
limits
to
is
There
alone
are
"
God
what
an
with
gone
You've
he
portune.
inop-
was
admitted
has
said
has
I
am
can
it
"
wife
for
as
he
today.
But
there
frightened
had
turn.
Now
asks
to
When
moment.
calls the
your
done
endure.
in Pell's eyes
look
and
prude.
no
husband
any
his
time
"
herself
she
knows
ugly
believe
it!
By ever5^hing
"
The
"
she
that
now
didn't
you
dirty bum
The
Admitted
"
dear
Pell
then
"
Ooooh
"
said
you
didn't
"
Pell
others
But
"
"
Smith
left
love
you
loves
here
business
wife.
my
(to Gilbert).
"
Gilbert
are
Do
to
will ceed
progentle soul
with
through
were
say
you.
it true?
I'm
to
talking
friend
(To Lucia)
mean
Thank
This
our
Is
gets the
he
No.
"
Pell
that
Pell.
him.
to
Gilbert).
wrong.
You
until
"
so
knows
Mrs.
this is settled, we
said
time.
waiting.
am
My
at
with
importance.
more
all he
out
love
over
from
Which
sale.
the
calmly
that
were
"
"
in
love him.
you
I thought we
that
275
blurts
passes
now
(indicating Smith)
you
he
statement
Gilbert
(To Lucia)
with
being
{taking paper
"
MAN"
go
to
Uncle
BAD
Lucia
to
be
the
him.
it's mine.
Lucia
Pell
What
"
are
hanging
sensible
Pell
What
"
"
"
Horses
Pell
seizes
don't
hands
Pancho
are
What
once
under
these
stances.
circum-
peg.)
always
table)
here,
her
and
For
So
now
are
branded.
why
reason
no
they belong
who
they
women
similarly treated.
be
sake
God's
"
"
thrusts
and
know
back
her
is about
to
upon
brand
her
the
by
table,
ing
draw-
Suddenly there is a
off
As
Pell
hesitates. Hardy,
Angela,
stage.
their
and
the others
begin backing into the room,
raised
above
their heads.
by
They are followed
of whose
followers
Lopez, the bandit, the guns
the
Smith
No
pinioned,
arms
shot
Come
"
He
her
No
wall)
do
{Drags spur
on
is
shrinks) There
(Lucia
equally as ignorant shouldn't
"
do ?
to
is that?
to.
Lucia
1920-1921
on
husband
OP
going
you
{sees spurs
"
another
saw
PLAYS
BEST
THE
76
sharp
leveled
"Senors,
spur
face.
them.
at
si
senoras
Pancho
announces
her
across
you
"
as
the
curtain
Act
my
prisoner," calmly
falls.
II
and
there is a time
unchanged
lapse of
commaiid
of
only five minutes.
Lopez, having taken
the
his prisoners out
of the
situation, has sent
room
under
and
is thinking
guard
seriously of his own
comfort.
He
is hungry.
Bueno!
He
will
kill
not
cook
the
until
after
dinner.
Meantime,
bring in the
Lucia
women!
and
Angela, the sheriff's daughter, are
has
her
Angela, who
pretty badly frightened.
own
should
bandits
be
is
theory as to how
approached,
inclined
be
to
playful and
friendly, but this bandit
The
scene
is
are
"THE
does
he
will take
but
honored,
with
one
is
wiz
interested
more
Mexico.
to
such
good joke
enough, but
is much
is
to
Pancho.
to
want
married
To
to
possible
im-
quite
be
She
Lucia.
in
Lucia
trip would
is bad
man
married
him
277
circumstances.
the
Which
woman.
MAN"
is
explains
under
wiz
He
respond.
not
She
BAD
marry
being
on
go
of
silly. It is a sense
humor
that
is not
at all reassuring to Lucia, however,
and
her hand
she serves
as
Lopez his
visibly trembles
is she
cause,
Bechile.
afraid
of him, he demands.
Why
she has heard
that he kills people.
she answers,
Lopez
Lopez
"
Lucia
"
Lopez
sink
Why
not?
Does
life
Life?
"
is death.
it wrong
to kill?
of killing so matter
talk
You
"
Life
be
little
do
kill
factly !
of
you
as
that?
'ere, is life.
Not
to
be
thing
unless
little to
as
mean
To
is
is
that
man,
You
"
Lucia
one
"
"
'ere,
it is one's
own.
Lucia
You
"
prisoners, then,
your
they
as
say?
Lopez
Lucia
'ave
Lucia
jailto put
no
wiz
If
you.
"
Lopez
"
But
it
To
you,
who
zose
you
So
again.
fight you
You
Certamente.
"
around
do!
You
"
Lopez
You
Sure.
"
you
seems
live
let
Lopez
Lucia
Lopez
"
Ees
I
"
"
never
ze
cannot
he-
go
back
come
to
Sabe?
blooded!
cold
so
prisoner.
pack him
ze
is
It
and
bill to
'ave
ze
zose
who
You
pay.
enemy
tween
be-
difference
to
live
in
pay
it,
kill.
You
horrible.
It's too
"
'im
kill him.
You
in.
'im
perhaps.
in safety
In
anger.
capture
life.
knew
It is because
life
you
was
'ave
like that.
never
really
lived.
PLAYS
BEST
THE
78
Because
you
kill
only
men.
evil
man,
OF
1920-1921
I
always protect by ozzers.
I kill
And
when
only evil men.
For
I 'ave did a
'appy.
me
very
been
'ave
And
it makes
deed.
good
Lucia
But
"
who
decides
whether
is
man
good
or
evil?
Lopez
I do!
"
Lopez
Tell
"
in
free
Senora,
me,
...
'ave
lived
never
you
country?
Lucia
"
Lopez
"
Lucia
"
free
country?
for
instance.
Don't
the
United
call
you
States
free
cotmtry?
Lopez
United
The
"
is.
Every
country
what
slave
law, slave
to
work
such
every
week,
time!
And
free
one
dam'
Madro
Like
them
for
Dios,
it
is slave
such
bed
to
go
you
free
covmtry!
you
are
'imself
such
Ees
does
left what
laws
any
Ze
Angela
said
in
Mexico?
"
because
best
like New
Not
each
York.
make
man
Where
Lopez
Sure,
"
big
hotel.
Ees
plenty
dronk.
ze
break
mu=:s
the
the
Angela
whole
been
ten
in New
body
every-
And
before
dam'
ze
nossing
'ell of
don't
I live
good
like it?
in
time.
one
day
at
I get
I
Sure.
prohibition.
commandments
you
zere
Madero.
hair.
"
is
York?
for
agent
was
'ave
until
do.
to
You've
do
cannot
you
want
"
she
best.
just
ze
what
you
only
as
tells you
to
go
time;
bath
man
"
You
everysing.
day you
every
to
take
unfree
most
woman,
in which
one
you
Zey
"
time;
night you
the
Mexico.
But
"
Lopez
such
'ave.
We
"
Angela
slave
call
Haven't
"
Lopez
custom,
Ees
country.
Ees
every
do
yet you
please.
Lucia
to
man,
time; eat
titne; every
such
get up
Bah
"
without
"THE
Lopez
New
York!
'osband
it?
Each
what
It
one
to
goes
bed.
is afraid
York!
step
one
It crush
Angela
Lopez
soon
she
as
Lopez
But
"
Angela
Lopez
'ave
'osband
but
not
it.
When
will
policeman
on
ze
you
please, when
They
Should
'ead.
ze
When
'ide under
which
grass,
'ave
see
get dronk
one
on
one
York
it is forbid
"
New
"
can
hell just
to
go
as
Bandit!
How
is free!
difEerent!
it is.
In
Mexico
But
some
one
on
In
You
which
'ide
do
can
please
you
one
ze
bed
ze
policeman
which
will
'it
leap! Ze
please, where
'eart
ze
zSE
"
to
under
not
you
what
not
goes
ees
Mexico
have
that,
When
'ead, but
ze
'ead.
of
dronk,
get
you
beautiful
every
what
woman?
'it you
she
His
ze
sure
be
soul
shoot
on
'osband.
shall
in
which
Mr.
beautiful
teatro
some
(to Lucia).
"
woman
ees
Mexico!
I'm
"
'er.
York,
please.
Oh,
"
what
woman
'it me
New
me
dam'
Angela
seeck, New
me
For
"
for
279
'eart!
ze
Yes
"
makes
which
teatro,
ze
If
MAN"
beautiful
big policeman
comes
ze
Like
"
BAD
you
is,onless
some
one
you.
are
sends
meal
all
present
except
Gil,
who
for
so
the
far
prisoners.
has
eluded
of a soldier conWith
the deliberation
round-up.
ducting
court-martial, Lopez
proceeds to examine
a
that
the
first one
them, warning them
caught telling
lie
shall
thus
him
be
shot.
By
a
putting rather an
he
the
attractive
the truth
learns
soon
premium
on
that
situation
the ranch;
exact
Hardy is there to
on
the
foreclose
Uncle
the
mortgage,
Henry
property
there.
the
out
bandit;
promptly
if he
beat
to
he
believes
belief
there
what
of his
because
Hardy
of
hoping
offers
will agree
to
to
Gil
be
is oil to
to
share
hold
the
and
his
valuable
be
found
profits
others
on
with
the
ranch
1920-1921
will
if the
promptly raises to $20,000
give him
Hardy's foreclosing and
ranch.
that
he
still a better
has
Smith
excites
Which
This
"
chance
Uncle
that
will
bandit
"
the
becomes
the property
eight o'clock, when
An
oflEer
give Lopez $10,000.
tintil
his, he
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
28o
prevent
in
buy
to
Henry
Pell
to
suggest
scheme.
don't
place
belong
of
neither
to
'em
yet.
Lopez
Smith
"
Lopez
"
Smith
"
Lopez
nephew.
And
which
He's
down
make
in
belong?
shed
the
He
right.
ain't
find
shall
shall
you
"
Ford.
fixin' the
"
Venustiano
trouble
it's all
it
is 'e?
{to Pedro).
he
guess
does
who
to
My
"
Before
I
Then
"
'em
show
where.
anything
got
him.
lose,
to
anyhow.
Smith
Bandit.
you
and
lend
"
Smith
till
eight
we'll give
here
dollars
Mr.
mean
and
million!
The
"
million
first
make
we
of
out
the
oil
here!
Lopez
I should
"
Smith
I do
"
Then
it
claimants
to
Hardy
Pell
"
"
I 'ave
On
for
where
You
"
bad
the
idea
that
inasmuch
owning
this
to
they could
know
there's
known
level ?
you
hold
so
for
an
he
ranch,
the
dollars?
I take.
in
interested
might not be a
would
they give
Will
Lopez
to
it
them
thousand
ten
you
lend.
not
occurs
are
Lopez
lend
Absolutely
"
Lopez
take
fellers
thousand
ten
us
these
"
million!
Lopez
that's
both
keep
You
o'clock
Robber
listen, Mr.
Now
"
find
oil
a
on
as
so
particular
many
ranch
auction.
What
asks, if he
the
this
oil?
ranch?
long time.
were
to
"THE
Lopez
No.
"
Pell
You
"
Lopez
Oh
"
didn't
Lopez
it
gentlemen
Hardy
"
both
want
seem
word?
my
Only
not.
why
interest
excitable
so
I 'ave
"
since
But
me.
to
you
it.
?
the
bad.
so
for
chance,
doubt
you
Certainly
no.
{showing
"
below.
Should
don't
Yes
down
281
JDefore?
so
Oil
"
Lopez
no,
say
you
MAN"
it?
mean
{darkly).
"
Pell
Way
BAD
Bueno.
little paper.
shall
both
You
"
will, how
we
Ze
option).
'old
say,
you
You
have
little
ze
hauction."
Pell
Auction
"
Lopez
show
bid
not
o'clock
eight
Hardy
get
is
'e shall
wiz
come
'iding.
while
me
him
To
wiz
'ere
stay
'ighest shall
ze
does
what
Pedro
tmtil
tonight.
You
"
the
mean
that
place, but
the
bids
who
shall
he
oil she
'ighest,
ze
'im
to
and
little paper
'im where
ze
ze
go
And
Si.
"
only
not
oil
the
is besides!
Lopez
Si.
"
Pell
I'm
"
Hardy
Pell
"
"
The
But
bid
one
of
much
subtle
too
gentlemen
w'ile
to
ransome,"
you
are.
day!"
of them
he
the
you
in
the
"I
that.
wiz
enough
me
explains.
to
"It
it
When
earnest.
He
is satisfied.
bandit
rich
dollars.
thousand
lively and
for
were
take
hundred
selling them
intention
agree' ?
"
is
$200,000
so
that.
for
bidding
reaches
it
Is
had
no
is
place,
He
wish
if you
to
anyway.
to find out
make
Mexico
is
it
and
plain
to
worth
'old
be
you
seen
my
for
zat
for me
lucky
a
Zis, if I may
say so, has been
foolish as to let either
Did
so
they think him
dred
hunbring him "two
They would
get away?
thousand
dollars."
Not
likely.
"Two
htmdred
soldiers,"
thousand
both
pen,
ink,
the
money.
and
paper
would
he
million
dollars.
business
It
"
want.
Pell
am
is
law
ze
and
they
will
send
will
with
for
behind.
leave
for
not
"
unkind
been
'as
been
wiz
come
what
to
me
you
love
to
want
wiz
marry
I will love
to
land
ze
of
myself personal.
!
It
want.
you
tired
ze
is
what
'ere.
here !
Look
"
with
shall
not
furnished
"
you
I don't
But
them
be
Life
.
where
purple mountains,
Lopez
Lucia
take
will
he
bothered
be
not
1920-1921
will
he
Henry
You
"
they
messengers
But
man.
Lucia
So
{to Lucia).
long 'ave
"
Too
you.
perhaps.
Uncle
Angela
Lopez
OF
where
Chihuahua,
to
PLAYS
BEST
THE
282
There
must
be
some
of
out
way
this!
Lopez
is.
There
"
{Pointing
to
the
door)
That
Dad!
up
neck).
against
way.
Angela
Pell
I guess
{to Hardy).
"
Hardy
Hardy's
{clinging around
"
Looks
"
that
we're
way.
it.
{Snaps
go.
"
them
all out
and
shoot
shall
follow
Pell
first
ze
wiz
"
make
trouble.
Bueno.
woman.
my
(Pedro
what?
Yotir
"
what
one
threatens
him
with
gun.)
Lopez
'appy togezzer,
The
with
his
Lopez
ranch?
has
captive,
the
into
"
and
you
who
man
Suddenly
intently
Come.
{to Lucia).
"
as
attitude
the
You!
face
You
of
shall
be
very
me.
been
the
We
to
of Gil.
are
ze
nephew
what
owns
this
"THE
Gil
Lopez
Tell
"
sometime,
Lopez
one
ago?
year
poor
wounded
peon
near
"
yes.
You
"
do !
Where
through
is you!
the
'e wounded
was
Quick
tell!
Shot
"
Lopez
It
"
Gil
You're
"
Lopez
"
Pancho
Gil
Ze
Lopez
Gil
Gil
{Grabs him
'Ow
glad I
tiano!
become
the
Lopez
"
Lopez
"
revolution
do
make
Zen,
of
slaps
him
some
you
more
Lopez
so
that!
frand!
My
the
on
Pedro
{To Gil)
understand
I don't
night!
Venus-
'ell of
Is
how
hack)
you,
peon,
soon.
Si.
sick.
a
Ah!
and
that
easy.
frand
My
make
enjoy
me
me!
you!
for
not
ze
know
I reckemize
So
save'
about
Sabe!
Pancho
wounded
know
frand!
Easy
"
is
Not
close!
you
hand
see
Yes, but
"
Gil
the
my
lucky thing
do
you
for
am
I found
life you
what
by
Ees
Look
who
me?
man
whose
Now
"
am?
know
the
Well,
Lopez
reckemize
you
you
And
"
"
Gil
Lord
You're
Lopez
don't
what
Now
"
"
me?
face!
Good
"
know
you
Lopez.
But
am.
shoulder.
Don't
Pancho
Lopez
clothes!
there
remember
Why,
"
Gil
ze
Diablo
Canon
death?
to
Lopez
You
in
remember.
You
"
been
it?
were
I don't
"
'ave
you
of
You
"
Gil
283
you?
What
Lopez
bleed
me
'ave
"
Gil
MAN"
Yes.
"
Gil
BAD
speed.
which
work
I
suddenly
"
say
for
When
are
sink, "I
get well
'ard.
myself,
shall
is
opportunity
great
ees
Business
"What
be
I find
to
soldado!"
she
do?"
"
soldier
nossing
and
wonderftd
Gil
find
we
When
too
need
we
it
'orse, ze
gun,
damn
We
fight
we
money,
for
to
go
Gil
No,
"
Lopez
Gil
But
"
sticks
Lopez
Gil
I make
thanks,
(with
"
life!
fine
one
Come,
try?
to
what
is
She
did
how
what
rob
bank
ze
shoes, clothes,
And
frand, how
like
you
general!
me!
So.
afraid
was
get ahead
you
choose.
we
off
cut
If
so.
if body
any'is fingers till 'e
booze
"
late
so
feel
we
store,
ze
My
for
not
sleep
city and
ze
you
shrug).
all
army.
your
We
when
some
take
we
in
rules
no!
food
from
'elp ourselves
candy, ze cigarette,aguardiente
'ide anysing from
us
we
tell us!
It is
so.
we
"
woman
ze
little sometimes
many
hacienda,
ze
1920-1921
revolution,
please.
damn
OP
frand.
make
who
ze
shoot
find
It's
"
be
but
I didn't
"
us
we
do
to
life,my
Lopez
For
shall
which
"
PLAYS
BEST
THE
284
so
for
fast?
that.
That's
me.
Ah,
"
simple.
so
Simple?
"
Lopez
Sure,
"
day ze
day,
one
lieutenant
she
are
killed.
I am
captain.
captain.
I become
major.
Pretty damn
ze
Byme-bye
major
I kill ze general for myself.
colonel.
soon
ze
lieutenant.
am
Nex'
ze
"
Lopez
Uncle
Henry,
foreclosed
by
Zat
shall
for
Gil
from
tall
Lopez
Gil
man
"
Eh
"
You
are
rancho,
(Gil
ze
which
to
are
gives assent)
all different
more!
some
of
nephew
be
H'm.
Axplain
understand.
tell.
to
ten
more
he's
loan
on
I borrowed
ten
from
mortgage
thousand
Hardy
"
shark.
(repeats)
"
zis
owns
much
uncle;
my
the
her
Not
now!
moggidge.
I shall
"
her
see
which
make
so
me
Ah,
"
loan
shark
"
then
I went
to
war.
When
no
money,
home,
came
and
that's
my
all.
cattle
were
all gone.
I had
"THE
Lopez
"
country,
Gil
Well,
trouble
it
wiz
to
seems
an
285
ideas
strange
ze
of
your
bad.
me
chunk
good
pretty
of
citizen.
average
Trouble?
"
MAN"
feel ver'
you
hand
to
Lopez
And
see.
it make
"
BAD
You
'ave
trouble.
no
You
only
sink
'ave
you
Gil
You
"
Lopez
hour
trouble.
meanyou
In
"
If I do
man.
Gil
keep
to
She
do
frand.
you
In
one
shall
be
little
'appy
then?
tie
to
down
me
from
kissing you.
(slapping Gil
on
me
Lopez
go
zat, what
If you
"
hour, my
And
poof!
this mess?
of
out
me
little
one
trouble
your
get
can
"
shoulder).
the
Bueno!
is did.
The
bandit's
plan to insure
complicated by
is somewhat
of the
the
way
insists, should
with
have
thinks
Pancho
loves
Lucia
Lopez
"
married
and
Lucia,
trouble
is
Lucia
he
sees
the
married
way
out
Pell.
to
Still,
if it is true
"
that
Gil.
Senora,
do
you
not
wish
to
speak
of love.
Why?
Lucia
Lopez
wish
to
senora,
Lucia
sickness
"
spik
and
"
Lucia
Lopez
you
of love
ees
.
marry,
strange
service
your
death,
you
till death
have
shall
promise
you
do
Tell
customs.
wedding
promises to love, honor
does
And
are
not
me,
say?
and
ooey,
part.
all those
things?
Yes.
"
Lopez
because
And
One
"
married.
am
what
Lopez
Lucia
"
"
And
yet
you
'ave
divorce.
Yes.
"
"
So
zat, after
having promise
to
love, honor
in
and
Lopez
and
"
Lucia
Lopez
all
The
"
plain
'ave
be
to
ze
'as
'e
to
broken,
'is
kept
Zen
why
go
is
as
Why?
silent).
before
promise
judge and
ze
you
'is
quaiiit
ze
promise
promise?
should
not
you
'usband
of
custom
why.
Why?
"
'Cause
"
Lucia
does
'im, when
"
Smith
your
yourself
promise
ze
Well?
country.
your
Smith
(as she is
Lopez
break
And
seen
promise
ze
break
to
can.
you
And
too?
promise
do
Why
keep your
to
you?
right
ze
law.
law.
things,
these
It is
the
It's
"
1920-1921
trouble.
the
save
'ave
ze
"
OF
you
judge say
Y-y-y-y-yes.
not
Well, why
because
Lucia
death
until
hobey
word
PLAYS
BEST
THE
286
do
Oh,
"
ain't
she
got
no
think
you
money.
that
would
make
any
difference?
Lopez
Smith
"
Smith
"
Lopez
"
"
nossing
to
the
does
much?
He's
worth
Millions
know,
You
Hardy
Lopez
will
"
'as
big
bum.
And
Lucia)
me,
senora,
from
money
gives
Loan
startled
money?
in
give
'e
yet
country
your
the
'usband
look.
To
when
Hardy)
Fish?
gets it all
She
made
hasn't
get the
Senor
"
(To
Tell
(Pell
'a is dead?
millions, the
wife.
widow
'E
mud.
How
ze
'usband?
the
Richer'n
"
Lopez
And
So?
"
that
.
is, if the
husband
will.
'Ave
(to Pell).
'Ave
you?
you
made
.?
.
Pell
chance
Lopez
Now
away
damn
No,
"
you!
But
I'm
going to,
the
first
get.
"
Good
Lopez
from
sees
Pell and
his way
give
clear.
it to
He
Hardy
will take
$10,000
in payment
of the
"THE
BAD
MAN"
will take
the
mortgage.
Hardy and
Then
for his
to
Gil.
And
as
It
shall
cost
me
you
wiz
loan
Lopez
"
big
it to
give
tooken
'ave
he
ransome
to
Pell
for
from
reimburse
him
"
planty
for
me
away
$10,000
Henry
million
"
Uncle
287
I could
money.
ransome
dollar.
helluva
"
But
not
am
soddid.
Pell
You
"
Lopez
What
"
Lopez
are
Kill
"
Pell
going
going
you
Pedro
do ?
to
Kill
me?
Pedro
Si.
"
Si.
(coming forward)
You
you're joking.
Joking ?
"
Segora.
Pell
"
"
Lopez
"
Pell
You
"
Lopez
in cold
me
Lopez
which
Pell
wife
Pell
of
killing
like
you.
talk
like
not
see
Dead
make
you
kill
would
you
"
Nobody
you.
people
two
that
so
me
senor.
If that's
"
You
"
Of
"
course,
if that's
want
all you
If that's
see?
what
he
you
can
Don't
want.
have
Lopez
Lopez
for
zeir
I would
"
look
at
seen
mans
you
once
before
I'll
her.
I will!
(He gets the thought now
give her to him!
I will !
they are really going to kill him) I swear
Pell
my
him.
Si,
"
Lopez
Pell
marry
can
Lopez
you
do
Oh,
"
that, and
blood
no
good.
are
you
I love 'appy.
Alive
joker?
"
like
I look
You
"
be!
must
Do
"
Pell
for ransom?
me
you.
(not gettingit).
"
Lopez
to hold
No.
"
Pell
aren't
that
I shoot.
What?
"
"
money.
have
I
'ave
seen
what
mans
would
which
not
fight
would
not
zeir lives.
fight for
would
which
Pell
PLAYS
BEST
THE
288
if you
But
"
Lopez
"
If I
I 'ave
But
fight
not
am
OF
for
'is
kill
1920-1921
before
never
man
woman.
you'll be
caught I shall
ever
seen
me
hanged!
be 'anged
many
times.
Pell
I'm
"
Lopez
kill
"
plenty
Pell
Lopez
"
wait.
us
{backing
American
beautiful
with
away
his hand
on
his
will
Government
"
but
Your
we
'ave
watchfully
waste
"
do
{Draws
time.
I'll
give
Two
Lopez
we
write
Government
stands
and
million
you
will
they
Americanos.
letter
pursue
facing Pell.)
Wait!
Pell
{as Lopez
pulls weapon).
A
million!
of
money!
Plenty
money!
you
gun
gun).
citizens.
Your
kill
We
citizen!
Government
My
"
American
an
"
is not
It
want
not
zat
we
want
money.
It
is zat
you.
raises gun
{as Lopez
again). You
mean
No!
For
the
love of God,
you're going to kill me?
do
that!
I'll do anydon't
{Groveling before Lopez)
thing!
her.
have
You
He
Go
anywhere!
can
can
if
all
have
her!
Her, and
you'll only spare
money
my
Pell
my
"
life!
Lopez
before
to
You
"
know
Pedro)
Pell
zat
him,
kill
"
I never
disgust Pell).
be so yellow.
{Turns
a dog could
rabbits.
hxmt
{Puts away
gun)
{eying with
No
do
even
not
intense
Pedro.
!
For
the
love
of God
the hip.
from
Pell,
pulls his gun and shoots
and
has
half risen, stiffens
who
collapses to the floor.
He
evil man,"
"It
was
a
was
good deed.
calmly
The
others
rush
in
learn
what
to
Lopez.
announces
has happened.
Pedro
"THE
Red
(seeing body
"
killed
Gil
ze
Pell).
What!
You've
wife !
But
don't
{as
"
fool
hour
ago
little
'ave
is yours,
wiz
is free
I not
is
lapse
no
the
upon
no
Tell
make
Pell
is
you
in
no
what
one
woman.
paid, ze
want
you
'Ave
me.
rancho
to
I not
marry
kept
my
little hour
III
of time.
prostrate
coward,
rancho,
she
what
Act
There
ze
what
money
woman
so!
that!
man.
money,
the
ze
do
'Ave
promise.
'appy man?
much
Now
and
for
ze
no
like
you've done?
wouldn't
to speak). Ah,
you
foolish
law, ze silly court.
better
it is my
One
way?
see
starts
'ow
misses.
never
svindler,
evil
wiz
hour.
she
Ze
you
Gil
see
you
kill him
was
around
not
you
enjoyishly.
Pedro
not?
He
"
Most
to
Why
"
Lopez
gaze
289
dead.
But
"
Lopez
One
of
Completely.
"
Hardy
Do
'ave.
He's
"
Gil
"
Lopez
still
MAN"
him!
Lopez
beat
BAD
as
has
killed
him!"
"You've
Gil.
mutters
happened.
"I
"You
need
not
'ave," calmly replies Lopez.
it was
thank
Before
pleasure."
they are able to
a
me,
that
in
convince
him
place of making
everybody
he
had
to
do, he
as
more,"
'appy some
hoped
has
added
the
to
complexities of the situation, the
Texas
Rangers are reported advancing from the south.
Lopez, preparing to leave, is still puzzled at the attitude
of Gil, indicated
by his reference to the barrier that the
"
"Ees
do
not
'usband
wiz
raises
Pell
dead
ze
no
way
kill the
ees
dam'
between
for
him
and
Lucia.
'usband
all wrong.
all wrong.
Say, what
the
If I do
ees
'usband, anyway?"
bandit.
ze
"If
kill
'ell shall
I
ze
do
THE
290
don't
"I
"Not
now,
sensible,
too
and
of
see
I go !
sabe!
Quien
of each
range
horses.
the
as
Soon
the
will, when
you
wiz
outside
within
soon
Love
"
shots
many
1920-1921
alone
you
ueno
...
not.
are
come
leave
like Mexicans
"
again, maybe
There
and
go
Wait
law.
OF
Gil.
know," admits
But
perhaps.
pretty
all shall
we
PLAYS
BEST
is
be
strong
more
Maybe we
Lleugo!
shall
'er; you
wUl
as
meet
Adios!"
and
pursuers
other
and
the
leader
of
the
the
sued
pur-
galloping
Rangers
has
he takes
They tell him what
happened;
the
continues
a
hasty glance at the body of Pell and
chase
The
others
the
after Lopez.
standing about
are
of
still a little stunned
by the swift succession
room,
Uncle
them
when
startles
suddenly
Henry
events,
with
ejaculation. He is gazing fixedly at the body
an
of the supposed
dead
"He
moved!"
he shouts.
man.
arrives.
' '
him
seen
Five
and
again
back
"They
Uncle
he
but
should
have
shot
able
him
Dutifully
Henry.
Pell's
head, but he
for
reaches
his
practically as well as
his
and
grazed
temple
from
quite
of
consternation
feet
had
aside
the
to
his
on
bullet
him,
had.
Pell,
others, is
the
stunned
he
later
Pedro's
ever.
As
And
minutes
and
wife
!' '
to
little
cause
in the
Lucia
dizziness
sneeringly
-handkerchief
he
laments
forward
to
declines
her
has
is
trouble.
more
stummick,"
comes
he
dage
ban-
aid.
dropped
he
about
the
to
start
for
the
county
to
pay
off the
gage
mort-
is too
late.
eight. He
revert
to
The
will automatically
Hardy
as
property
in the
he
soon
formally completes the foreclosure
as
of doing as
his intention
he announces
morning, which
leaves.
he takes Angela and
when
the
clock
strikes
seat
"THE
Lucia
So.
"
BAD
We're
MAN'
right back
291
just where
started
we
from!
Gil
Not
"
quite.
{To
Lucia)
Come.
Don't
be
afraid.
Lucia
{coming
"
Gil
Have
"
to him
this
now.
Lucia
Never!
"
Gil
You'll
"
Lucia
to
me
with
me
protect
you
until
"
"
drink
another
around,
have
you?
That
.
now.
haven't
Had
"
married
could
want
Lucia
What
"
Pell
as
Gil
You're
"
Pell
it
him.
here
"
would
never
know
eh?
me,
And
.
for
care
never
All
it.
go
with
.?
.
reputation?
my
of
reputation,
dear
You
so.
thing
Some-
You
course.
I've
right.
no
can
objection.
lying.
My
"
leave
your
like with
you
I do
reputation
do
It's
"
are
that
now
to
your
you
in
again.
you
Won't
.
what
But
you.
You
"
him?
try
I known
live with
Pell
do
drink
one
have
rather
was
I got, you
know.
hands
it to him)
You
nasty
"
Gil!
you,
heard.
{toPell). You
She's mine
{apparently about to collapse). You
"
Pell
trust
Take
"
Gil
fellow, I don't
haven't
sometime.
shot
been
It
blame
for thinking
you
You
should
today.
one's
viewpoint
changes
prisingly
sur-
"
Gil
Pell
doesn't
But
"
"^
you
wife.
mean.
What
But
is the
she
"
says
Haven't
man
yourself?
said
Here
we
are,
best
way
love
out
in anger
that he
made
take
misthe same
ever
you
doesn't
things
many
me
we
and
three.
she
does
She
is my
love you.
THE
292
Gil
You'd
"
Pell
her
give
OF
up?
hold
her
if she
To
"
intend
don't
You
"
Pell
Not
fight you?
ranch.
your
Gil
"
Pell
Gil
if
dear
chap,
Lucia
to
They
captain.
is
got him
in
I'm
not
help
you.
alive
bandit
in
refuses.
like
greaser
you
him
contemptuously.
gone,
Pell
returns
little problem
divorce,
reasonable
he
that
says,
But
You've
eight.
punching
month
in
house
She's
him, Gil.
trying
used
to
to
and
his
the
the
he
to
of
is
not
Ranger
the
bandit,
him
to
want
to
parts?"
"sensible
the
got
wet
But
alimony.
they
spurn
he
free
He
to go.
Then,
they are
agrees,
he says
to
it, as though he is about
as
him
As he
Gil fetches
glass of water.
a
demands,
his
captive
solution"
averse
get him
nurse
he
and
He
and
bring the
the
Ranger
but
Ranger
them.
for
would
going
these
confronts
and
Gil
woimds,
I'm
around
My
people.
frighten us.
I'm
merely
all.
Lucia
think
"
kUler?
decent
trying
frighten you.
to
Mexico
to
He's
That's
With
cows,
Bisbee?
professional
bandage
"Do
York
existed.
friend, Lopez,
your
can."
and
New
money.
is
course
to
are
if
the
of her.
care
forget.
I know
"
no
boarding
become
"
you
"
Pell
who
with
escapes
back
go
all
own
my
ever
you
It's after
dollars
a
take
can
Now
to
had
money.
in
Go
"
trjdng
be
to
want
I've
me.
have
you
hundred
lives
"
he
earn
Pell
And
can
"
she
while
doesn't
"
for one
fighting I want
day.
I have
simple.
merely
very
either
of
that
and
forget
difficult.
problem is more
your
lost
1'920-1921
I?
can
Gil
PLAYS
I can't
"
held,
BEST
wiU
of
agree
to
the
to
paying
his
sways
a
a
money.
a
little
swoon
again.
drinks
it Pell
"THE
takes
Gil's
Gil
from
gun
exultantly,
"I've
Why,
"
Pell
Lucia
damn
He
"
holster.
you
where
you
fool
MAN"
his
got
Make
"
BAD
shouts,
you!"
I want
of me,
out
he
"Now,"
{Sees his
"
it, Gil!
means
293
is
gun
will you,
gone.)
s
you
his
arms.)
Pell
Our
"
I mind.
right.
being killed
They'll hang you
"
Pell
in
is
It's
Gil
as
wife
The
"
other
Lucia
unwritten
isn't
It
that
!
law
works
(To Lucia)
(clinging). I won't.
places.
"
that
killingyou
object to.
Get
in Arizona
well
as
him.
from
away
Pell
and
hell
to
go
right. Then
together!
(throwing
straight. Because,
Gil
take
what's
(Raises
Lucia
"
shoot
to
his
God!
you
gun.)
You'd
side).
one
by
coming
to
better
miss
if you
"
off the
the lamp
quickly and sweeps
is plunged in darkness.
There
is a
table.
The
room
shot
from
the archway
Pell plunges forward
at back.
Gil
'
All
"
steps back
his
on
face.
There
in
standing
Lopez
is the
flare
the
of
match
lighting
calmly
archway
reveals
that
cigarette.
Lopez
'Ow
times
many
danm
Now,
ay?
Maria
Santa
"
to
must
'ell,maybe
Pedro.
(Turns)
Pedro
(entering).
"
Lopez
Pedro
Lopez
some
Di'n'
"
"
I would
more
bad.
too
Pedro
then
bum
"
throws
for
Faliantes
for
get
arms
today
you
stay dead
to
any'ow?
for
while,
around
him
lociento.
If
shooting.
'ave
Gaudaloupe!
Si?
I tell you
^Yamunica
Ees
"
kill
you
de
Rio
del
new
You
she
should
Pedro.
'appen
Should
be
onnerstand?
(Lopez
THE
294
Lopez
Ees
and
OF
(indicating Pell's
for nobody
no
more.
"
use
no
PLAYS
BEST
1920-1921
'im
Take
body).
Pedro,
save
away.
boots
ze
clothes.
ze
Pedro
Signo.
{to Gil).
"
Lopez
"
Now,
zen.
You
thought
you
all
right
some
ay?
more,
Gil
I guess
"
Lopez
Me
"
so,
"
It is not
ees
me,
captured
were
double.
my
Double!
Gil"
Lopez
Ees
"
idea
what
from
get
moving
ze
pitchers.
Gil
Lopez
dam
it wasn't
Then
"
I should
"
Gil
Lopez
'em
"
for
look
from
like
me.
me,
'e go
much
hexercise.
You
Gil
Lopez
you
and
for
die.
when
best
rider.
be'ind.
why
I make
wish
Rangers
ze
remain
say,
it?
It
saves
me
kill 'im
no
you
for
self?
your-
gun.
Ees
difference
ze
is afraid
You
'im.
Me
between
for
afraid
am
for
three
us
'E
kiJl.
neizer!
afraid
was
What
me,
"
do
you
ay?
now,
Gil
'ome,
I don't
"
Lopez
Lopez
You
do?
I tell you.
I
Ranger what
come.
of
moggidge
and
"
For
to
somewhere.
go
stay
right
'ere
the
place.
It's
after
in
your
Ees
half
eight.
six
I
thirty what
It was
when
I was
being chase
by ze
follow.
I sink for myself eight o'clock
the
to
Suppose something happen
at
frand.
myself
What's
"
Lopez
my
'er
pays
Gil
got
shall
lost
I've
No.
"
soon
We've
'ome.
But
"
know.
No.
"
sweet
Gil
she
ze
work
I couldn't.
"
"
ze
fix zat.
you
men
So
w'ile
ze
do
my
But,
got
I
"
I 'ave
How
pick
chase
chased
time
how?
But
"
be
Long
Ranger?
they captured?
ail over
ze
place by
you
past
Would
never
do!
So
I goes
that?
receipt.
(Hands
him
receipt.)
"THE
Gil
But
"
Lopez
Gil
Lopez
Rob
"
Lopez
Gil
"
Lopez
should
But
must
"
All
for.
town
Lopez
the
to
judge
money
judge
the
for
pay
and
sure
say
send
can
lend
money.
you
oil
frand.
my
back
"
is
Zere
oil.
no
"
million
one
The
tell
I know
get
not
sorry,
said
you
"
go
money
which
it back.
am
But
"
me.
ze
the
to
foolish.
pay
"
'E
him
back.
pay
I 'ave planty
dollars
so
can
become
all right.
right.
be
for
Jones send
ze
judge,
Ees
you
I
"
tells
sousand
Lopez
you
to
again, for I am
tired myself!
I take
frand
receipt.
"
ten
Gil
I go
all off
are
are
'E
'im
Gil
what
not
Senor
moggidge.
you
Ees
what
tell him
Gil
bank!
what
man
lawyer
'and
get it ?
bank.
No, it's
"
business
and
money?
"
"Lopez
to
295
get the
you
you
ze
the
Sure
"
MAN"
right.
did
I rob
"
did
all
Where
"
Gil
where
Ees
"
BAD
dam'
one
from
dollar
lie.
big
But
what
'usband
ze
are
I kill?
Lucia
Gil
you
Lopez
"
"
Lopez
"
damn
so
makes
touch
we'd
one
penny
of
give it to you.
law.
(in disgust). The
law
Is it possible zat
ze
Ze
well
law
is
is not
so
mind.
never
no
think
don't
You
"
that, do
Gil
Oh
"
wise, after
back
aU
planty
more
I shall send
ze
all ?
still
shall
You
what
cattle
what
you
love
However, it
be rich, anyhow.
I steal from
you.
Gil
Lopez
will.
You
"
"
And
what
is all
right.
You
have
ze
But
it
wait.
And
whole
also
Lopez
such
fools.
for
Only
la
liver what
ze
Americanos!
what
ees
Gil
I'm
"
Lopez
All
no
poor
Ees
use.
All
sorry.
no
Lopez
Gil
Lopez
myself
Gil
Not
is all!
Fishes
shall
I take
zen
an'
good
take
not
what
me
back
dam'
explain
to
let
go
sorry.
It are
"
you?
fool
Only
not
is
say
from
man
will
will
day
life what
too
wiz
courage!
low.
yelare
what
finish
can
you
you.
you
tried
All
"
her, but
you
No
Zat
am
talk
make
you
make
you
right.
"
am
dicating
{In-
'er?
"
'er'
You!
"
in my
You
You
Well,
"
ze
in
serve
I've
all
make
to
Zen
and
"
you
Ees
right.
Lucia)
Gil
man
Bueno!
'appy.
on'appy
Fishes!
snaps
hideas!
soul
ze
Bah!
For
for
use
blood!
and
an
sorry.
Sorry.
'ave
try
"
day
Bah
his
face.
Such
No
white
are
no
and
Gil
of
man's
seek!
'ave.
to
to
Pancho
makes
front
Ees
me
have
Instantly
With
changes.
young
ranch
idea.
an
in
Boca
make
You
childs
ze
down
wiU
They
"frand"
surprised
Tapa
"
his
lurches
that
him
strange
his
accept
Which
"
gives
toward
manner
ugly leer he
his fingers in
fit
sometime
Perhaps,
this
please
to
he
cannot
says,
those
conditions.
under
furious.
1920-1921
Gil
No,
Lucia
OF
impossible
seems
American.
and
PLAYS
BEST
THE
296
dam'
and
I want
big
what
fool
you
know
{facing LiOPBz).
"
'er to
take
'er
about
Wait
Ees
day
all
give
to
'er.
want
woman
favor
as
"
I 'ave
and
first time
not
"
take
since
Now,
'er
yovurselE,I take
you.
'im?
a
ze
{Calls Pedro.)
minute.
You
mean
this?
Lopez
Gil
Lopez
Pedro)
{as
"
You
"
"
Pedro
mean
Everybody
Take
'er.
enters)^
Pedro.
We
go.
it?
sink
am
joker
today.
{To
"THE
Gil
(as Pedro
"
damned
if
is
I'm
only
thing
Lopez
What's
"
Lopez
Gil
Lopez
Gil
"
Lucia
the
It's his
one
"
Lopez
do.
shoot
wolf
life
in
or
here
there
this
the
sheep's
overcoat.
Gil !
"
yours.
to
comes
it.
mean
"
Gil
it
do
to
if I must.
"
Oh,
"
I must
will not
I will
"
when
and
her.
You
"
you've tried
what
I'm
that?
Protect
"
I know
that
drops it).
{covering Lopez
it
Drop
297
and
gun
ungrateful, but
not
one
Gil
do!
you
MAN"
draws
{To Lopez)
Pedro).
and
BAD
two
"
three
just
if it's
damned
I'm
seconds
to
of
out
get
"
Don't
"
and
yours
! Don't
shoot
{He
shoot
and
Pedro
laugh.)
Gil
Is
"
Lopez
from
this
Si.
"
Ah,
frand.
my
Fine
last.
at
you
trick?
I
what
man
made
'ave
man
ze
would
kill for
killed
you.
his
woman.
Gil
{realizing).
"
Lopez
For
last
at
{He puts
leave
his
hand
But
"
Lopez
"
on
ver'
me
of
man
ze
Gil's
could
'er now,
No!
Gil
become
'ave
you
it makes
And
know.
"
have
I would
"
intelligence.
You
shoulder)
'appy
could
not
you?
"
You
do
Zen
for
question,
not
what
you
call
beat
'ell.
destiny?
Gil
Lopez
{A
"
whistle
leave
me.
you
Ees
'ave
you
in years.
'er
No.
"
"
ees
give
Ees
love
live and
I shall
me
destiny,
am
Well
outside)
is heard
to
you
thank
you
the
most
'appy day
'appy day
for
me.
"
No,
"
for
must
shall
you
'ere in your
peaceful day
for
you
{He
"
to
ees
kisses
go
not
quiet
I 'ave
thank
home
spent
'appy day
Lucia's
to
"
for
hand)
(Pedro
Pedro
Gil)
will
You
door)
1920-1921
caballios.
Las
the
name
Panchita
Pancho
OF
to
comes
"
(To
PLAYS
BEST
THE
298
baby
shall
for
be
Pronto.
sometime
me
"
godpapa
Padreno
"
"
"
not
the
first
one,
"
later.
'appy
With
to
Lucia.
falls.
Adios,
flourish
She
and
"
'ave
the
is
sobbing
maybe
"
f rands
my
what
like
but
perhaps
make
may
by
and
always
you
by
be
you.
bad
exits.
man
on
his
shoulder
Gil
as
walks
the
over
curtain
"
so
"THE
EMPEROR
THE
in
Play
By
is
Scenes
G.
O'Neill
Players,
which
began
Eight
Eugene
Provincetown
their
JONES"
includes
Eugene
last
season
semiprofessional
fall
O'Neill
with
"The
as
an
in
uncon
speaking,
ajtnonologue
for
sinele
director,
Emperor
ventional_ dramajwritten
JndudmgIIe^E"Tclianges-aL
scene,,ahd
It
ganization
or-
Jones."
single act,
TSZSSctically
Its
actor.
reception
at
home
the
converted
Square,
to
continued
two
the
Gilpin,
He
a
was
success
sensations
"The
"takes
They
player
in
role
provided
that
the
on
government
was
brought
where
29,
it
of
the
could
the
Jones,
one
of
the
negro
Charles
experience,
reading
vincingly
con-
determined
induced
first
white
read
therefore
and
the
Jones"
read
to
and
later
major
S.
it.
scored
theatrical
season.
of
action
place
his
it
Brutus
stage
some
after
accepted
unself-determined
native
had
the
what
was
none
at
to
title.
had
of
chance
the
after
it
ton
Washing-
Emperor
that
given
below
is
season.
discovered
a
which
January
"The
cast
speeches
negro
who
of the
given
of
"emperor"
run
Theater,
to
were
the
try
there
folk
who
actors
months'
came
Provincetown
Street,
and
remainder
they
Provincetowners,
enthusiastic,
Princess
the
When
the
MacDougal
was
practically
to
in
stable
uptown
of
theater
the
play,"
island
an
by
is,
in
white
for
the
299
explains
the
West
Marines.
time
Mr.
Indies
The
being,
an
O'Neill,
as
form
yet
of
"mpire."
THE
The
first of the
the
in
ceiUnged
The
to
throne.
with
This
rear.
exception
the
stands
which
is very
painted
is
It
walls.
.
wood
uncut
spacious, high-
"
ber
cham-
audience
whitewashed
bare,
of
made
its back
emperor
of furniture
is bare
1920-1921
is in "the
the
with
OF
scenes
of
palace
chair
huge
eight
room
room
PLAYS
BEST
300
of
at
one
ter,
cen-
peror's
apparently the emdazzling, eye-smiting
scarlet."
'
It
is late
Outside
sleeps.
cockney
woman
from
the
the
on
has
overseer,
Emperor
Jones still
of
sort
a
portico Smithers,
native
apprehended
a
negro
learned
of the palace, and
out
Inside
afternoon.
the
trying to sneak
she eludes
him
her, before
forest, that all the natives
hills.
This
afoot.
Smithers
about
His
forty.
with
is
The
tanned
tropics have
sickly yellow, and native
to
a
nose
startling red."
His
shrill
whistle
exceedingly angry
room.
"Jones is
the
is
rebellion
that
man
a
perched on
long neck
like
an
apple looks
egg.
face
his naturally pasty
a
has
painted his pointed
rum
awakens
when
he
the
strides
tall, powerfully
to
away
run
for
head
Adam's
enormous
an
dash
tall, stoop-shouldered
"a
bald
have
Smithers
to
suggests
makes
and
who
emperor,
into
is
audience
the
built, full-blooded
'
of middle
negro
His
features
are
typically negroid,
his
about
something decidedly distinctive
face
an
underlying strength of will, a hardy, selfreliant
in
confidence
that
himself
inspires respect.
His
alive
with
keen, cunning intelligence.
are
a
eyes
is shrewd,
In
he
He
suspicious, evasive.
manner,
with
brass
wears
a
light-blue uniform
coat,
sprayed
his shoulders,
buttons,
heavy gold chevrons
on
gold
braid
the
His
collar, cuffs, etc.
on
bright
are
pants
red
with
the
side.
Patentlight-blue stripe down
a
yet
there
age.
is
"
leather
laced
long-barreled,
his
complete
boots
with
brass
pearl-handled
make
up.
Yet
spurs
and
revolver
there
is
belt
in
with
holster
something
not
"THE
EMPEROR
JONES"
his
301
He
grandeur.
^itiifiisLaliitu(2fi,;tCH5zaxdjQ^
will give Yent
nourished
he
dares."'
to
as
.feras
i-^Y,Jzr
a'
has
'
who
two
he has
years
stood'
and,-soon
Since
"thereafter
then
he
has
had,
himseli. .diosen..eniperQr.
had
been
the
Smithers
and
raaster
the
descent
Jones
.from
his
scarlet
You
heah
what
""
throne."
little
stealin'
like I does.
For
late.
For
in
jail soon
or
and
emperor
puts
ten
years
chance
to
bleedin'
it's dat
o' Fame
Hall
If
dey's
when
And
to
in two
emperor
learns
de
white
gits
when
Jones
"
bloomin'
luck
(severely).
the
bloke
'as.
you
Luck?
What
you
mean
"
luck?
Smithers
"
suppose
you'll
say
as
years.
admiration
"
big
you
thing
one
listenin'
cars
fact.
up
dere's
de
same
and
little stealin'
Pullman
it I winds
use
Smithers
the
de
on
quality talk,
of
de
in
you
does,
you
de
(Reminiscently)
croaks.
in
like
stealin'
Smithers.
I tells you,
...
Dere's
""-
that
swank
about
blacks
fool
the
first got
ole
Lem,
his
gun
heah
dice
hired
Smithers
Jones
kill
for
But
that
ground
like I
"
heah?
you
nigger,
feet
away
and
dead,
what
you
ten
him
de
Jones
was
wasn't
luck?
and
brains
got
'em
uses
luck.
they
And
'ardly
wasn't
it
luck
was
and
whip
'e
liable
to
'it
didn't
No,
suh!
stays
back
in
when
to
Smithers
o' my
hand.
I make
knows
to
dis
when
hay
hold
done
bluff
Yankee
fool.
And
on
Where
None
"
sniff).
why
turn
o'
Not
de
Lawd,
down
when
sees
out, and
me
de
spot and
it.
emperor's
suh'shm^-.-
de
dis'jobTo'"
dis
"
"
out
on
Oh
Bible.
all eatin'
I'se aimin'
sight, I resigns
Smithers
heads
What
spends.
nerve
dem
,,sin'tno
thinkin'
o' de
bush
fool
dere
bumpin'
out
dem
all
dey jtrnipsthrough.
(with
life?
dere
and
I has
on
you
Jones
And
miracle
"
"
oath.
plain, fat-'eaded
down
sho't. _.._Dat
deir
and
I
silver
Blimey,
'em.
lead
no
only
strong
so
so's
charm
told
buUets.
time
Smithers
my
aim
yer'd got
knew
Yer
kneelin'
dat
I cracks
in
bullet!
mttrderin'
you
(laughing).
was
up
the
time.
Jones
niggers
Jjme.is
"
ain't
"
silver
no
yer,
yer
dat
Smithers
Was
silver
luck,
dat
takes
was
(proudly).
"
quick.
You
yer.
could
from
of
time
the
dat
dat
I shoots
said
You
kill
swank
you
Oh,
When
me,
fire and
"
buUet'd
get
what
was
say?
me
that
kill
to
misses
bullet
Yessuh
side
makes
But
luck!
de
I loads
that
and
"
yer
laugh).
"
was
on
1920-1921
it?
revolution, wasn't
{with
Jones
Sho'
OF
ain't luck
bullet
silver
the
PLAYS
BEST
THE
302
if you
action
dese
niggers gittin'
I'se got all dejnoney
beats
it quick.
to?
yo' business.
back
to
the
bloody States,
I'll
lay
"THE
Jones
don't
(suspiciously). Why
'count
o'
laugh) You
mean
easy
me
breakin'
from
Smithers
I?
dere?
dat
Dat's
(Then
with
'bout
story
all talk.
"
Smithers
-^
thinkin'
about
Jones
jail back
303
"
Jones
is you?
here
JONES"
"
an
only
EMPEROR
"
Gawd
lies
killin' white
men
in
(angered).
How
come
You'd
'ave
been
Smithers
"
wouldn't
(hastily). No,
of the
bloody
told
you
the
liar,
me!
the
was
blacks
States.
dey're lies?
'
then?
yer
strike
I'se
(With
in
jail
venom)
And
if
'ad,
you
from
what
"
look
out.
laugh). I was
on'y
And
Can't
was
just
spoofin' yer.
yer take a joke?
you
in
been
jail.
sajnn' you'd never
tone
slightly boastful).
same
(in the
Jones
wid
Maybe I goes to jaildere for gettin'in an argument
I gits twenty
ovah
Maybe
yeahs
razors
a
crap
game.
in
I
die.
another
when
dat
colored
gits
Maybe
man
o' us when
Tvid de prison guard was
overseer
argument
he hits me
wid a whip
we're
walkin'
de roads.
Maybe
Smithers
(trying
"
force
to
"
"
and
chain
files de
I does
you,
all dat
so's
evah
yo'
repeats
yearth mighty
Then
"and
wid
an'
off my
leg an' gits away
I don't.
It's
and
maybe
I'se
knows
one
as
de
kind
of
of it I ends
word
man
runs
safe.
a
an'
away
Maybe
story I tells
dat
yo' stealin'
if you
dis
on
quick!
damn
Smithers,
with
shovel
he
it his malice"
slowly
"
recovers
gets back
his composure"
to his excuse
for
having awakened
disappearance
old
woman's
the
and
time
for
natives
of
1920-1921
into
his
that
his
knows
is
now
But
"resign."
to
the
hills; of the
the
belief
own
of
tells him
He
Jones
frightened. He
is not
emperor
all the
of
OF
emperor.
story,
the
probably
PLAYS
BEST
THE
304
the
"niggers."
nmnin'.
they'll come
But
he tries it and it doesn't
work.
Vigorously he rings
is no
bell.
But
there
Slowly
big dinner
a
response.
he meets
the
that
Smithers
is right. But
he concludes
All
he
to
do
with
has
situation
is call
'em
chuckle
and
little
"
forced, but
still
chuckle.
Smithers
No
"
I kisses
up
all
it
off to
run
de
Smithers
"
Jones
git
better
emperor
starts
de
Den
"
the door
for
Smithers
"
find
won't
Mine
was
That's
revolution
his
Goin'
gone
game's
Dey've
feet
is at
smokin'
jack
man
de
post.
up
de
of
'em.
de
An'
(He
trail.
rear.)
in
out
look
to
steals
They
any.
bleedin'
every
"
waits.
long
no
de
dey?
hills,ain't
Yes
I knows
When
widout
good-by
but
mistake.
no
fussin'.
use'n
Blimey,
admiration).
real
bird, and
cool
you're a
Jones
(mth
"
when
went
for
the
for
'orse
yer
'orses
'im
first
this
Yer
thing.
momin'.
give me
suspicion of wot was
a
"{
up.
his
(alarmed for a second, scratches
Jones
head,
then philosophically). Well den I hoofs
it.
Feet, do yo'
and
looks
at
(He pulls out
duty!
a
gold watch
it)
Sundown's
dereabouts.
at six-thurty or
Three-thurty.
with
back
cool
(Puts his watch
confidence) I got
it easy.
plenty o' time to make
Smithers
be so bloomin'
of it. They'll
Don't
sure
be after you
is at the bottom
'ot an' 'eavy.
Ole Lem
wot
first
"
"
"
of this
do
for
business
you
Jones
Does
you
"
than
an'
'e 'ates
eat
his
like
'ell.
'E'd
rather
(scornfully).
think
you
I'se scared
Dat
fool
o' him?
no-'count
I stands
nigger!
him
on
"THE
his
thick
again
time
head
if he
an'
through
Jones
man!
and
sniff
'ave
twelve
trails like
the
big
through
cut
You'd
in
dis
sure
can
yo' think
fo' havin'
I'm
follow
if you
even
native.
white
Give
'n fool?
fo' Lawd's
sense,
some
'ustle to
to
hours
natural-bo
it
And
"
credit
to
'ere
forest
I does
(Fiercely)
fo'
'ounds.
bloomin'
Does
me
like
that
all the
'ave
305
dis, and
"
nigger
blacks
dark
before
way
dead
these
trail in the
my
You'll
"
"
knew
JONES"
once
in
him
Smithers
get
more'n
come
I leave
forest
EMPEROR
Don't
sake!
made
of all de
ahead
and
sho'
s'pose I'se looked
you
chances?
I'se gone
in dat big forest, pretendin'
out
dat
I knows
to
times
it high an' low
hunt, so many
like
book.
own
names
not
yo'
on
wid
me
jes' laughs
trash
'cross
de
out
o'
at
de
in
findin'
oder
de
to
de
dis
side
gunboat is stayin'.
she
Martinique when
mighty big bankroll
a
shame
to
de
picks
go
in
de
on
up,
dar, an'
dere
my
I'll
jeans.
be
dark
swell
I'll be
tomorrow
me
me,
time
by
whar
black
watch
coast
an'
dese
will.
forest
Dawn
baby!
She
de
went
from
fool
s'pects
men
You
easy.
of
come
sick.
in
an'
white
look
woods
de
deir
know
to
Huh,
where
so
edge
entiff
my
ignerent
dese
Think
man,
dey're
dem
make
Once
chance
It's
trails wid
Jones?
Why,
'em.
at
plain
comes.
life !
heah,
I'll
Brutus
bloodhounds
around
man.
catch
ever
Not
after
dat
takes
French
I is safe
It's easy
as
de
to
me
wid
rollin'
log.
Smithers
'appens
Jones
do?
"
"
(maliciously).
and
wrong
Smithers
you
dem
on
bush
off
through
go
shut.
eyes
I could
they
do
nab
(decisively). Dey
"
But, just
for
But
s'posin' somethin'
yer?
don't.
argyment's
Dat's
sake
de
"
swer.
an-
what'd
Jones
dat
fo'
enuff
good
gun
bush
common
bullet
got de silver
1920-1921
I'se
(frowning).
"
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
3o6
left to
niggers
cheat
in dis
bullets
'em
"
out
an'
after
o'
gittin'
me.
Smithers
silver
(jeeringly). Ho,
"
You'll
bullet.
btmip
Blimey!
yer?
(gloomily).
Jones
thing, white
man.
one
fergettin' that
was
yerself
orf
in
style,
won't
roll on
yo' whole
Dis
baby plays out his string
when
he quits he quits wid
to de end, and
a
bang, de
he
Silver
bullet
ain't
too
good for
ought.
none
way
him
when
he
dat's
fac'!
(Then shaking off his
a
go,
is I
with a confident laugh) Sho' ! What
nervousness
kin
Yo'
"
bet
"
about
taUdn'
Ain't
dat
to
come
yet an' I
will
never
"
not
watch
trash
me!
"From
of
thump
at
hills
distant
the
low
tom-tom,
seventy-two
to
the
"Jones
very
starts
creeps
end
of
into
faint, steady
It starts
vibrating.
normal
pulse beat
"
and
"
from
rate
continues
this
at
point uninterruptedly
the
play.
sound; a strange
the
at
to
minute
the
gradually accelerating
to
and
exactly corresponding
rate
the
comes
his
face
for
look
moment
of
as
prehension
ap-
he
listens."
With
the
the
suggestion
indicates
tom-tom
blacks
of
are
working
satisfaction
that
up
the
their
Smithers
meeting
courage
tells him
has
begun;
for the
assault.
services
'olding all sorts of 'eathenish
soon,
'em
workin'
the
to
silver
buUet.
spells
'elp
against
up
But
he
can't
Brutus
he
frighten
Jones.
Leastaways
make
can't
he is frightened.
Brutus
The
Jones admit
be dark, pitch dark, but ain't the trees his
forest may
They'll
be
"THE
friends?
dealin'
Besides, those
mth
in' of
fool
who's
man
JONES"
307
niggers don't
been
in
member
they're
know
good
stand-
the
will
The
Baptist Church.
Baptist Church
he had
if,as a business
protect" him. even
man,
"done
found
expedient
it
time
EMPEROR
"lay
to
his
shelf for
on'de
Jesus
de
bein'."
And
he
so
door
of the
back
door
Smithers
"I'se
palace.
like
de
dare
stop him
In
the
the
be
mighty
drum
it.
de
de
out
Emperor
black
dat
listen
to
do
to
dat
dat
carry
band
brass
of
and
stops
drum
whole
part
And
"Listen
big
I'd slink
front
Jones
trash
don't
the
distant
beat
roll
call!
yit, leastaways."
tom-toms.
no
I?
comes,
he
doorway
of
ain't
he
not
"
the
out
common
he
think
you
yit, ain't
way
chuckle,
"Does
protests that
emperor
leaves
still with
goes,
far.
see
off, I sho'
me
man."
long, white
in his pockets and
So
he
tune,
if
Well,
.
to
Mus'
de
got
with
saunters
dey
studied
of
out
the
doorway."
II
Scene
is
It
of the
rear
is
the
eye
when
Only
can
the
be
made
It
"heah
throws
hasn't
a
forest
outlines
come."
wall
of
the
plain.
"In
.
the
of darkness
becomes
of separate
trunks
of the
nearest
trees
out."
is the
"
in
himself
put
up,
Jones'
Emperor
is
he
blisterin'
"Cheah
end
the
nightfall at
de
nick
the
on
time."
o'
ground.
in any
fit condition
But
plain, he admits.
him
nigger," he mutters;
"Then,
as
he
stares
point,
first stopping
at
the
Dog
Bein'
and
tired, he
an
emperor
he is
"the
worst
for
black
forest
is
yet to
he gets
THE
3o8
his
of
first taste
de
quickly
woods, will
they'd be black,
He
turns
though eager
Meditatively
as
thoughts.
dusty and
yo' end
up
away
to
change
he
gazes
takes
off
his
you
of
his
already
his
at
sho'
he
shadows
current
and
shoes
an'
the
"Feet,
Dat
you?
the
suttinly hopes
fine, an'
conquer.
from
down
shoes.
travel-stained
He
none."
dem
said
tu'n."
1920-1921
is struggling to
he
at
Smithers
no-'count
called
fear
the
look
goodness,
"My
OF
PLAYS
BEST
yo'
is holdin'
ain't
blisterin'
vestigat
in-
the
continues
"You
dat
beatin'
o'
drum!
Sound
louder,
"
to
starts
his
to
it away.
wid
yo.'
laugh
mattah
I
soon's
git
dese
Under
food;
But
to
He
if
like!
seem
white
a
a
white
there
the
over
are
and
his
on
hidden
should
be
white
many
other
"
that
stone
had
he
stone
stones.
and
hands
his
first
knees,
he
Is it possible
nothing.
the
though he had followed
spot.
from
he
one
them
turns
finds
the
that
right near
Crawling
of
supply
has
lost
trail across
place, even
whar
is yo'?
the
Ain't
"Grub,
plains in daylight?
heah
!
Gorry, has I got to go hungry into dem woods
all de night ?
I'se hungry, I is !
I gotta git my
food.
Whar's
from
if I doesn't?"
come
strength gonna
my
In the
first flush
of fear he lights a match.
Again
"
the
beat
his
pursuers
puts
out
to
of the
tom-tom
might
the
the
have
seen
and
match,
search
seems
for
the
in
to
the
the
buried
increase
as
flare.
he
realizes
Excitedly
deepening gloom
box
of food.
he
turns
re-
"While
They
be
his back
is turned
JONES"
the
They
describable
the
vainly
Can't
'round
done
; foreboding)
\ defiance
Iput
of him
of
with
does
The
so
creatures
in
"
their
dem
trees!
evah
seed
the
on
quavering
What's
formation."
con-
Gorry,
it befo'.
in front
ground
Git
you?
voice:
'Whar's
from
away
dat?
befo'
me
yo' up!'"
flash
quickening
Formless
like
seeking
me?
on
formless
dar?
I shoots
trees,
the
twisted
Who's
the
by
from
face
comes
he
to
ovah
the
rustling
as
an
somethin'
"From
in
de
whereabouts
look
all it is
at
about
of
tops
tell nothin'
It's
in
"
his
heah
lost
the
at
up
discover
"
I nothin'
j I'se
stares
to
Jones
Fears
creeping child.
deliberate, painful
end, failing and
on
form
size of
move
forest.
Formless
the
If
seen.
of
Little
309
of the
forest.
deeper blackness
black, shapeless, only their glittering eyes can
are
that
EMPEROR
from
out
creep
"THE
of the
of
the
Fears
Slowly Jones
is followed
revolver
of
beat
scurried
have
back
of his
control
recovers
by
distant
the
animals
maybe
rooted
little
"
into
out
yo' grub
nigger, what
yo' think
Gorry, you give de game
an'
dey
away
is
"
ha'nts?
when
forest.
relief
both
was
reckon.
it.
eat
the
nerves.
pigs,
wild
The
tom-tom.
of
"Dey're gone," he sighs with a touch
and
shot
fix 'em.
boastfulness; "dat
Dey
little
perceptible
Sho',
only
Dey've
you
fool
{Excitedly)
yo' fire
dat
shot.
BEST
3IO
THE
Dem
niggers
de
in
dat
heah
1920-1921
fo' suttin'!
Time
yo'
it in
beat
woods
forest
OF
PLAYS
no
"
"
with
at?
skeered
nothin'
Ain't
dere
but
de
trees!
in!"
Git
Scene
The
the
risen
has
moon
reveal
trees
As
again.
trees
darkness
with
dim
the
crouching
near
the
him
to
believe
that
finding
his
No
buttin'
mo'
in 'de hide
Panama
hat
yo' fool
yo' legs
with
bright uniform.
He
Majesty!"
Dere
"Majesty!
apparently
have
an
no
gits mo'
haid again'
in de
which
scratched, and
are
clearing,
shaking dice
in the
seen
of
will
he
"Yo'
way.
off
and
the
to
automaton.
and
him
is
negro
movements
accustomed
becomes
eye
figure of
the ground
mechanical
the
through
shifting beams
by walls
clearing surrounded
of the
the towering blackness
Beyond,
of underbrush.
its
and
small
III
he
there
are
"Dis
light
from
de trunks
bushes."
He
numerous
difficulty
further
dis
out.
an'
scratch-
has
lost
and
in his
the
hands
once-
am
chuckles
ain't
now."
But
shall
but
sustain
big
the
turns
sees
calls
him.
end
the
that
of
he
again
silent
toward
Jeff."
The
is in
bank
hopefully
roll
upon
still beats
tom-tom
sight
to
and
"
draw
the
once
on
"
he
The
courage
menacingly,
is safe, with
click-click
his attention.
negro's dice attracts
the clearing and
"stands
transfixed
In
terrified
gasp
he
demands:
that
He
as
he
"THE
"Who
EMPEROR
dar?
What
JONES"
dat?
Is
dat
311
yo', Jeff?"
He
"
voice
to
yo' speak
"He
to
me
to
got
For
the
he
shouts,
the
'I
When
Dat
frenzy
from
shot
of terrified
it, den !
the
once.
'"
revolver
Jeff has
fix
can't
"
"
dead
yo'
take
it clears
anjnvay.
up
ha'nt
"
kills
You
smoke
look
"
"
yo' again
view.
gone,
is you
revolver
in
his
moment
"He's
kill
yo' gwine
Is you
jerks out
'Nigger,'
rage.
Has
"Ain't
stutter.
scures
ob-
disappeared.
him!"
mutters
Jones.
Again
the
beat
of
its beat
and
the
much
seems
back
panicky
emperor
moment.
Dey's gittin'nearer
fast!
An' heah
"Dey's comin'
now
"
'em
know
jes' where
is heard
tom-tom
is.
faster.
to
"
It
brings the
the
of the
problem
he whispers, hoarsely.
I is shottin'
Oh,
tinctly,
dis-
more
gorry
"
shots
I'se
let
to
to
got
run!"
Paths
and
moonlight mean
nothing to
Wildly he plunges into the forest and is heard
his way
the scene
through the underbrush
as
Scene
It
is eleven
forest
unreal"
hedge
in
o'clock.
in
the
road
The
that
moonlight.
him
now.
crashing
closes
in.
IV
tall, black
trees
of
the
"glimmers
ghastly and
Jones, staggering in, is
from
Perspiration streams
his face.
is like a straitjacket. Disgustedly
His coat
he
throws
it aside
and
stands
stripped to the waist,
his
the
bony body flashing dully when
moonlight
strikes
"I
aside his sptirs, too.
it. He throws
gits
wearied
and
nervestrung.
rid
dem
o'
But
beat
frippety
The
can't
his
and
warning
he
an'
travels
something
funny about
in
things that
happen
that
the
must
and
"
some
he
yet
There's
drum.
other
queer
"Lawd
night.
at
wears
put
himself;
about
forest
night
have
damned
of the
still'
tom-toms
the
and
piu-suers
sounds
off the
The
rest.
is convinced
between
shake
to
rhythmic
emperor
distance
1920-1921
trappin's,
emperor
chance
no
their
out
on.
is
there
OF
I'se tired!"
Lawd!
lighter.
PLAYS
BEST
THE
312
Dey gits
And
tries
he
valiantly to reestablish
then, as
goat!"
my
fool nigger, dey
his confidence
! You
: "Ha'nts
ain't
de
tell
such
no
things. Don't
Baptist parson
is yo' like
dat
time?
Is yo' civilized
or
you
many
Sho'!
Dat
dese
was
ign'rant black
niggers heah?
I don't
all in yo' own
head.
But, bless God!
come
'cross no
mo'
o' dem, whatever
dey is!"
don'
God,
let
see
me
Down
the
road
heads
shaven,
They
carry
left
picks
them.
shoulder
set
to
and
work
a
on
looks
legs
and
heavy
the
ha'nts!
gang
He
o' dem
mo'
no
of negro
shackled
convicts
shovels.
carries
whip
road.
ball
to
and
white
rifle
in his
hand.
Jones,
unaware
and
their
enter,
chain.
guard
companies
ac-
his
slung across
Silently they
of
their
them.
proach,
ap-
"Lawd
sees
suddenly
Jesus!" he ejaculates, as he tries to get to his feet
sinks
The
and
back, paralyzed by fear.
guard motions
He
his place in the gang.
does
to him
to take
so,
strikes
him
with
his
rebelliously. The
guard
whip.
with
"Jones winces
cowers
pain and
abjectly. The
his back
him
walks
and
guard turns
on
temptuously.
conaway
With
Instantly Jones straightens up.
club
in his hands
arms
upraised as if his shovel were
a
he
the
at
springs murderously
unsuspecting
guard.
In the
of crashing down
his shovel
white
act
the
on
man's
skull
his
that
Jones suddenly becomes
aware
hands
He
cries despairingly :
are
empty.
"'Whar's
up
my
shovel?
Gimme
my
shovel
'til
"THE
splitshis
Gimme
damn
"They
on
his
head
shovel,
the
EMPEROR
(Appealing
of
one
fixed in
stand
ground.
back
The
turned
to his
fo' God's
yo'
motionless
guard
the
to
baffled, terrified
JONES"
fellow convicts)
sake!'
attitudes, their
wait
to
seems
attacker.
eyes
expectantly,
bellows
Jones
tugging
rage,
313
frantically
with
his
at
revolver.
"'I
I evah
"He
guard's
in
back.
from
both
convict
Jones
boom
sides, the
gang
The
as
Instantly the
road
blotted
are
walls
and
in
out
Another
clearing in
the
something
of
stump
has
block.
To
this
he
emerges
He
is in tatters
in shreds
has
he
and
stump
close
the
of
figures
enshrouding
an
the
the
ness.
dark-
underbrush
the
throbbing
him,
his
to
fleeing
the
an
of
the
and
cut
side
prayer!
I'se
by
ing
hangNow
torn.
of
his
forest.
tree
auction
makes
emperor
the
knees
center
of
blackness
are
his
the
appearance
the
what
about
In
forest.
the
from
now,
fallen
the
stirnip
is praying
fervently:
Jesus, heah
my
"Lawd
a
forest
tom-tom."
Scene
as
the
only sounds
are
a crashing in
in mad
leaps away
flight and
of the
way
of
sinner!
poor
When
I cotches
overcomes
me
An'
wrong!
raises
me
up
Jeff
cheatin'
an'
kills
down
to
knows
heah
de
seat
done
wid
loaded
dead!
where
dese
de
knows
dice my
Lawd,
fool
mighty,
sinner,
poor
wrong,
him
o'
bush
anger
I
grab.
done
niggers
I steals
I knows
it!
I done
Lawd,
wrong,
Lawd!
Forgive dis
sorry! sorry! Forgive me,
sinner!
keep
(Then beseeching terrifiedly) An'
An'
me!
from
Lawd!
dem
Keep
away
away,
could
it!
all
I'se
poor
dem
stop
dat
drum
is
ears!
my
comfort
some
ha'nts, he
more
of
chances
and
"You
1920-1921
Dat
begin
sound
to
too."
There
ears
in
soundin'
ha'nted,
no
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
314
going
he
at
upon
is
his
shoes.
Look
too.
be
of his
what
is left of his
what
leather,
patent
But
still beats
tom-tom
ruefully
A-i
prayer.
of that.
sure
The
on.
gazes
real
was
feels
will
There
in the
at
yo'
low."
Emperor,
gittin'mighty
yo'
is absorbed,
the
Gradually, as his attention
clearing
fills with
laelles of the
and
beaux
figures. Southern
with
'fifties,
sprinkling of middle-aged planters. An
a
auctioneer
takes
charge of the proceedings as a group
now.
of slaves
but
led
are
sound
no
nothing
but
drums.
The
crowd
his
of
the
wind
and
the
sold.
continued
to
limbs.
It is
tittering and
calls
his
of
the
to
distant
offered
"
war
of
soundness
the
is he
much
group,
is heard
attention
the
physique,
How
animated
an
talking
beat
auctioneer
Jones:
to
in to be
the
of
for
the
is happening.
Jones suddenly realizes what
folks?
What's
all dis?
"What
yo' all doin', white
What
fo'?
What
yo' all lookin' at me
yo' doin' wid
anyhow"?
me
As his anger,
bom
of his hatred
his desperation,
and
rises he whips out
his revolver
faces them,
again and
of the
just as he is sold to one
planters. "An'
you
sells me?
An'
me?
I
shows
buys
yo' I'se a free
you
nigger, damn
yo' souls!"
emperor?
The
planter
two
shots
that
he
fires at
echo
emptily as
fear-crazed
Jones is heard
underbrush, followed
by
the
and
the
in, and
crashing again through
the
the
the
forest
auctioneer
closes
still insistent
beat
of
the
the
tom-tom.
Scene
The
to
them
limbs
are
of
the
trees
meet
interlocked
VI
overhead,
ropes
and
of the
reaching up
creeping vines.
"THE
suggesting
vessel."
EMPEROR
"the
dark, noisome
Into
mingling
this
bullet
after
come
silver
how
me,
Lawd,
on'y de silver
luck.
If I shoots
it's black
heah!
dis
night evah
feeling his way
like
clear
But
No
is
of
against
rows
no
he
forms
appear,
they might
the
be
they bend
"gradually by
As
directed
in the
falls
by
But
them,
the
to
Dis
feels
I don'
rest.
gotta rest."
fear-crazed
blacks
begin
of
sort
some
of the
emperor.
ground than
the
to
irregular
place.
each
task
fastened
to
the
long, tremendous
an
increases
to
be
tom-tom
of
wail
oar.
despair
certain
fellow
the
with
starts
"as
the
the
sight from
backward
and
if imder
some
emperor
of
sorrow,
of
to
his eyes.
forward
uncanny
His
voice
others.
.
highest pitch
first seeks
sufferers, at
by hiding
his voice
while
light fades,
haunted
walls
is
he
They are
loin clothes, and
the
as
moonlight
into half -relief they begin to move,
and
forward, in unison, as though
of them
comptilsion,
The
in
huddled
soon
reaches
this
exhausted, to
shapes of other
of these
sight
with
for
black
to
presence
avoid
rest
don't
the sounds,
me.
Lawd,
Lawd,
Dare!
fo'
reaches
up
an'
dat
save
murmuring
seem
rh5rthmic degrees which
controlled
the
of
throb
the
by
and
that
the
catch
galley slaves
distance,
taken
moon?
end?
ha'nts
sho'!
goner
no
away?
gotta
men
backward
sway
got
o' dem
dem
sunk,
for
naked, save
slowly brings them
to
de
does
visioned
dimly
the
I'm
one
Ain't
skeer
an'
staggers,
prayers.
If mo'
"
an
deserted
some
now?
{By
cautiously forward)
has
sooner
do
Ifeft
to
come
niggers
there
of
his
one.
Whah's
space.
if dem
care
dat
with
gwine
one
315
clearing Jones
moaning
I gwine
what
Lawd,
left, on'y the
"O
hold
vaulted
wearied
JONES"
desolation."
the
thickening darkness
disappears again into the forest, his
and
in
the
more.
more
OF-
after
trailing back
The
increasing beat of
insistent, triumphant
voice
moaning
no
PLAYS
BEST
THE
3i6
Scene
o'clock, and
It is five
dawn
lines
until
the
tom-tom,
"with
echoes
pulsation,"
VII
faint
horizon.
the
river
spreading
"a rough
it is heard
him
forest.
the
through
1920-1921
there
is
of
structure
suggestion
the
By
like
bowlders,
coming
of
bank
tree, and
giant
of the
wide-
the
near
altar."
an
tree
From
rising and
Jones approaches, "his voice
chained
of
the
falling in the long, despairing wail
is fixed
and
slaves."
"The
expression of his face
with
have
obsessed
glare; he moves
stony, his eyes
an
in a
like a sleepwalker
or
one
a
strange deliberation
trance."
about
the
place is familiar.
Something
"As
if in obedience
obscure
to
impulse he goes
some
the
distance
into
kneeling,
"What
like
stones
been
heah
skeered
dis
de
in
dis
before
posture
doin'?
like
What
know
river.
befo'.
is
dat
remember
I'se
place?
an'
"
Oh,
O
dem
like
seems
"
skeered!
altar."
dis
"
tree
(Tremblingly)
place!
the
I'se
gorry,
Lawd,
pertect
witch
doctor.
sinner!"
Suddenly
"His
body
horns
In
seems
"
an'
"
is
what
"
Seems
devotional
one
charm
tied
hand
he
carries
stick
with
bone
end.
ornaments
ankles.
He
step
to
and
the
stamp
chant."
of
bunch
his foot
of
white
his
about
in
Then
on
clear
the
with
the
earth
Antelope
branching upward.
rattle, in the
noiselessly
position
altar.
head,
great number
are
struts
bright red.
bone
Congo
a
a
over
of his
side
on
the
to
all
each
are
him
before
appears
is stained
cockatoo
of
neck,
with
glass
ears,
other
feathers
beads
and
wrists
and
prancing
ground between
Jones
preliminary summoning
he begins to dance
and
a
queer
"THE
It
is
"The
narrative'
forces
appeased.
It is he
EMPEROR
of
demand
Jones
who
sacrifice.
to
seems
the
sense
offer himself
must
abjectly
'Mercy,
the
on
dance
the
his head
for
reveals.
They
of this.
meaning
sacrifice.
ground, moaning
be
must
He
beats
hysterically:
Lawd!
dis poor
The
sinner!'"
Mercy
on
doctor
leaps exultantly to the river's edge and
forth a god of his own
the edge
and
over
witch
summons
of
in pantomime
evil
317'
JONES"
"
the
bank
the
appears
head
of
gigantic crocodile,
Jones, fascinated
by the
with
glittering green
eyes.
is drawn
crawling monster,
yawning jaws, though never
of
prayers
the
Baptist
closer
and
ceasing
God
closer
mumble
to
he
whom
upon
to
the
the
still relies
for
"The
witch
in
doctor's
voice
shrills out
help.
furious exultation, the tom-tom
beats
Lawd,
madly.
!
! wails the terLawd
save
rified
me
Jesus, heah my
prayer
the silver bullet.
Jones.
Suddenly he remembers
"
"
' '
He
has
whips
a
the
is
seen
ground,
fear
as
him
with
the
no
his
throb
a
With
and
revolver
disappears.
and
tree
to
his
out
crocodile
left.
chance
one
The
fires.
witch
The
he
movement
head
doctor
of
the
springs behind
more.
arms
of the
fills the
tom-tom
pulsation, a
somber
quick
baffled
silence
but
about
revengeful
power."
Scene
Dawn
fact,
at
which
at
old
only in
by two
edge
Jones
is close
now
faced
the
a
or
savage
at
of the
VIII
forest
entered
in
hand.
of the
the
Scene
"a
Lem,
African
extreme
"
from
and
the
the
spot, in
exact
II.
The
heavy-set,
type,
tom
tom-
ape-
dressed
forest, followed
cockney
Smithers.
in the
protesting his lack of confidence
Even
the discovery
native
of tracking prey.
system
of Jones' footprints does not
satisfy him.
Smithers
is
Smithers
That's
I?
glance turns
away
he
went
in, right enough.
miles
off by this
and
'E's
'is 'ide!
I told yer
yer'd lose
yer.
damn
coast,
the
wastin'
"
wot
Lem
yer
motion
haunches
in
cotch
good
safe
the
to
'im, didn't
You
him.
{He
see.
squat down
to
their
on
semicircle.)
Smithers
disgust).
Much
pack!
(gutturally). We
"
makes
castin'
in
night beatin'
yer
silly spells! Gawd
bloomin'
whole
and
drum
bloody
blimey,
1920-1921
{aftera
"
where
it'll do
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
3i8
{exasperatedly) Well,
"
'im in the
'unt
Lem
{turning away
"
Gam!
'E's
together.
We
better
'ates
the
sight
the
than
man
of
contempttiously).
him
from
him,
put
that
'im.
is
There
Lem
does
the
their
not
rifles
into
the
Then,
answer,
as
woods
and,
at
silence
when
followed
by
thiaks
he
If
'e
it
'is
lost
"Still
bloody
in
cock
ground,
worm
their
sneers
Smithers.
and
in
way
circle
the
'eads,"
adds:
over,
snapping of twigs
soldiers
from
jump
a
Lem,
fat
monosyllabic
the
on
signal from
"Blarsted
forest.
'appen.
way
all, it might
stinldn'
these
'is knowin'
without
it.
all does."
They
There
by
second's
The
deeper underbrush.
been
they have
squatting
where
the
the
is
tom-tom
man
him.
Him
yells of
abruptly
with
dead.
kill
him
shore.
strong charm.
silver bullet, make
um
um
the
ceases.
grin
Dey
report
exultant
white
got
himself).
squatting down
him.
Aw!
in
What
"
Smithers
for
{imperturbably
"
cotch
woods
My
of
savages.
Lem
forest, followed
"The
beating
looks
up
satisfaction.
day got
mens
Lead
the
bullets
I took
strong
um
um
"We
money.
charm,
the
cotch
silver bullets.
IdU
no
at
of
too."
him.
Make
He
um
"THE
soldiers
The
in
the
enough,
airs
of
'eight
At
and
out,
and
channs
in
but
right
yer
"
Dead
mighty
an'
with
grin)
died
yer
when
soldiers
the
the
'e'd
the
in
the
the
body
contemptuous
drum
that
'imself,
don't
the
lost
up
it's
think
yer
beatin'
pick
of
sneers
suppose
silly
yer
circle
Lem
ignoring
"An'
Smithers.
run
from
signal
it
gazes
any'ow!"
style,
carry
(Then
blimey,
even
he
for
'igh
yer
Majesty?
Gawd
bullets!
Silver
awe
as
did
forest.
Smithers.
Where's
bloomin'
yer
of
they
soliloquizes
(Mockingly)
the
from
Smithers
"Well,
lad,"
me
now,
the
in
319
suggestion
scornful
emperor.
Jonsey,
'erring
of
the
upon
is
there
attitude
down
as
And
body
Jones'
carry
dead.
is
He
JONES"
EMPEROR
yer
bleedin'
'im
made
yer?
.
Stupid
The
as
curtain
'ogs,
falls.
the
lot
of
'dm!
Blarsted
niggers!"
"THE
Tragi-comedy
By
THE
first
in
York
the
of
bore
worthy
representative
refused
to
because
some
of
of
allegory
the
Germany,
certain
evicted
later
denied
New
the
and
"This
drama.
the
by
"The
Skin
financial
Game"
for
opening
the
of
of
an
the
several
of
aristocratic
the
represent
and
indorsement
with
the
year,
and
result
its
the
was
reception
by
enthusiastic,
it
was
an
sanely
that,
argued
although
with
business
ceptionally
ex-
approved
was
numbered
not
was
successes
good
At
public,
to
if not
interesting
professional
playgoing
of
that
agreement
well-written,
portion
play's
cordial,
was
general
was
The
moner
com-
quarrel,
proved,
never
author.
reviewers
York
there
the
by
was
text
aristocrat
their
presumed
were
allegory
the
ruthless
of
on
into
the
the
cause
living
estate,
The
Belgium.
the
tenants
Englishman's
which
England,
while
suggested
was
read
in
conflict
who
aristocracy
idea
war
personify
to
British
and
commoner
reviewers
play's
heaval,
up-
with
exclusively
the
The
world
the
presumed
was
of
in
"war"
international
late
pushing
pushed.
be
The
concerned
between
wagered
the
New
ing
interest-
Galsworthy's
Game."
to
being
contest
an
Skin
reach
to
success
John
was
relation
however,
Acts
Galsworthy
"The
no
Three
dramatic
1920
play,
question
in
John
London
fall
"war"
GAME"
SKIN
big
the
was
sistently
con-
months.
play
the
family
320
Hillcrists,
that
has
tive
representalived
on
its
"THE
ancestral
for
in
estate
generations,
SKIN
GAME"
remote
321
district of
country
considerably upset
are
by
England
the
actions
Homblowers,
to the district to whom
newcomers
had
sold
Squire Hillcrist,being pressed for money,
of the
his
of
portion
land.
from
north
is
facturer
manu-
acquired
has
what
force
to
pottery
who
country
is determined
and
fortune
the
Homblower
considers
he
and
his family
recognition of himself
from
the
into which
he
has
He
moved.
commimity
has already established
his potteries in Deepwater
and
his advantage,
which
openly seeks to press
Squire
The
Hillcrist as determinedly resists.
Squire is trying
his daughter
to
to
explain his feeling in the matter
tolerant
and more
who, being of the younger
Jill,
tion,
genera-
social
proper
is inclined
less
seriously
she
demands,
take
to
do
than
her
all
"why
ambitions
Homblowers'
the
this
this
"
Dodo,"
"But,
parents.
attitude
the
to
Homblowers?"
Hillcrist
Jill
say,
That's
"
and
Jill
Jill
"
the
want
yet.
we
are,
But
why
would
mother
as
not
be?
let them
can't.
generations
takes
It
"
live,JUL
them
give
because
Why'^.
"
let
"
You
"
Hillcrist
and
only
they're not
Hillcrist
they're pushing.
Because
"
take
like that
People
to
an
leam
live
to
ell when
you
inch.
an
But
if you
it all
should
Why
inch.
the
them
gave
be
such
skin
game?
Hillcrist
"
Skin
game?
do
Where
you
get your
lingo?
Jill
"
Keep
Hillcrist
"
to
the
point.
property.
Dodo.
And
the
of
struggle
in
development,_
amounts
of
only thing is
social
to
have
between
different
influence
mles
of
the
and
game
learned
to
Jill
bad
as
HiLLCRiST
don't
Well,
"
and
All
right.
the
the
His
up)
like the
people
only
rules; their
Hornis
rule
They're
prose.
half
not
as
think.
you
meadow
those
1920-1921
can.
Darling,
"
OF
Now,
them.
keep
haven't
blowers
PLAYS
BEST
THE
322
I sold
when
I
cottages
he's
same
certainly
cloven
got the
in
influence
Homblower
is
Deepwater
Long-
found
him
all
(Warming
thoroughly bad;
hoof.
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
him
scupper
Jill
But
"
HiLLCRiST
and
of
out
his
his
suppose
I assume,
"
tolerant, gentle
Jill
Ah
"
standards.
to
the
standards
of
Self-seeking ?
that
course,
and
weak,
low?
are
But
he's
self-seeking.
not
aren't
honest
we
all. Dodo
lam.
HiLLCRiST
Nobody
"
do
"
to
Mother
"
herself
"
HiLLCRisT
the
perfect woman
That's
Jill
could
what
who
man
you
Shall
gout.
pretty
mother?
"
of
England
whatever
Your
she
mother
according
does.
is, perhaps
"
"
"
call
me
right
Ye-es.
"
mean
you
reminds
always
they're under
mother.
course,
"
Jill
till
knows
saying.
Now,
no
one
perfect. Dodo.
Besides, you've got
tell you
definition of a gentleman?
my
gives
the
was
Homblower
his
due.
And
"THE
think
mother
ought
Homblower
sign
SKIN
to
it
resents
Chloe
to
Soon
word
the
GAME"
call
323
them.
on
fearfullythat
three
years
is received
that
Rolf
she's
she's
made
never
been
old
says
here.
in extending
Homblower,
evicted
for
the
potteries, has
who
Jackmans,
the
Hillcrist place.
thirty years have been tenants
on
Not
only that, but it is reported that he has bought the
three
not
hundred
Gentry, a neighboring estate
yards
from
the Hillcrist house, and
tories
facplans to erect more
there.
The
Hillcrists are
amazed
and
disgusted
the very
of
at
such
suggestion
a
thing, though Mrs.
is not
Hillcrist
all surprised.
"You
at
might have
known
he'd do something
of the sort," she says to her
husband.
"I
quite distinctly said," he replies, "'Of
won't
disturb
the
want
to
course
tenancies;
you
there's
Homblower
told
a
great shortage of cottages.'
do you
What
distinctlythat he wouldn't.
as
me
more
_
his
want?"
"A
cut
like
man
to
his
chimneys
up
Yet
there
of
If he
way.
own
thinks
that
...
we
simply
seems
no
couldn't
it would
thousand
six
There
is
intend
to
These
pounds.
chance,
do
hopes
he arrives
to
Hillcrist
change
all
bought.
him
rudely shattered
speak for himself.
promised
additional
an
done
be
does
Homblower
you
"
not
in mind.
having
when
by Homblower
me,
blower
Hom-
already heavily
buy the Gentry
must
with
puts
know,
not
to
tenancies.
HoRNBLOWER
have.
that
credits
You
to
and
the
raising of
Still, if it
however,
rumor
is
try
are
"
the
to
the
mean
stop
estate
short
the
here."
circumvent
to
way
Hillcrist
plans. The
m.ortgaged, and if they were
themselves
nothing but
buys the Gentry
"
wasn't
Thought
Well, I'vc
expectiag to
the
Duke
come
to
have
the
would
sell
tell
ye
need
me
that
when
bit down
I
I
but
there;
those
devil
bit
for
cottages
works,
PLAYS
BEST
THE
324
1920-1921
will; and
he
workmen.
my
I've
have
I must
now
important
got
know.
ye
HiLLCRisT
The
{gettingheated).
"
importance,
their
OF
sir.
too,
have
Jackmans
Their
in
heart's
that
cottage.
HoRNBLOWER
in
What's
them.
ambitions
got
this and
consider
to
where
""
should
HiLLCRisT
done,
I'm
"
were
objection
little petty
Nowhere!
this
same,
to
do
your
fathers
made
fathers
by
Here
it.
other
want
Not
"
need
your
Suppose
man.
every
to?
the
I've
fortune.
my
sort
of
isn't
thing
know.
you
HoRNBLOWER
ye
and
that
All
"
make
serious
I get
"
of
they
more,
proportion, man.
heart's
people and my
of
sense
thousands
supply
works
My
Have
"
got
Ye've
ye.
people
quite
are,
ye
for
because
you,
have
to
ye've got
content
no
none.
on
ambitions;
How
d'ye
no
what
and
think
land?
your
Not
"
"
HoRNBLOWER
occasion
to
and
got the
I've
for
use
your
understand
ahead
going
and
said !
HoRNBLOWER
I've
been
way,
not
for
room
worth
little
me
Of
Well,
"
Ye
and
the
of
sort
all
the
myself.
thing.
finger.
blatant
guts,
it.
I've
I'm
no
Forty
things
of
"
thinkin'.
fashioned
in
on
had
not
got the
sit still
I don't
that
{angry).
"
I've
me.
believe
aren't
Jackmans
heard
and
money,
sentiment
like
men
because
HiLLCRiST
ever
Look
"
two
as
want
I want
of
it
us
we're
speaking plainly,
the village run
oldyour
I fancy there's
mine.
run
here.
"THE
Mrs.
Hillcrist
then
develops
negotiating with the
to
pay
Homblower,
325
going?
not
going.
you
fear, I'm
that
the
for
price
elder
Homblowers
of the
owner
any
the
are
Never
"
GAME"
When
"
HoRNBLOWER
It
SKIN
is
son,
and
Gentry
the
already-
are
are
property.
the
at
even
pared
pre-
Gharlie
moment
"
I don't
Homblower,
game,
Hornblower
bones,
the
no
Mrs.
not
speciman
ye
Hornblower
And
path.
if he
or,
terms
lady's
I don't
I could
need
that
path
stays there
power
doesn't
on
the
of
good, too,
my
I need
where
know
to
long;
And
terms.
Gentry
in my
Ye're
stay there
my
in
it need.
that
know
like of you.
the
"
chimneys
a
hardenin'
presence,
Homblower,
Mr.
in my
does, he
ye
for
pression
ex-
words
bad
that
'em.
ye're
almighty.
not
Hillcrist
And
"
Hornblower
I'm
new,
Ye
think
ye
don't
ye
don't
and
like
If
ye're
not
old
view
buy
from
family.
I
man.
your
bein'
things an'
land, and
tried
ye
a
called
ye
I make
like that.
and
you,
Ye've
an
have
haven't
pushin'
the
Have
like that.
It threatens
how
And
ye're
I'm
being neighborly!
that's
"
neighborly to me?
daughter-in-law.
now
for
Well, and
anyone
are
It'll do
wonderful
nice
very
sure.
"
obstruction
an
they're
skin
it is.
Well,
game."
Oh,
"
I'm
you,
got
isn't
two.
or
Hillcrist
stop
Ye're
an'
what
Ye've
If it wasn't
heart.
give
"Skin
there.
break
Ah
"
Imow
If that
ye
windies.
don't
to
like
me.
chapel,
I sell
don't
em,
like
an'
an'
that.
Well, I don't
tude.
goin' to put up with your attitoo
had
long, and
things your own
way
longer.
any
going to have them
I'm
not
Not
his
family as
might reconsider
Gentry property.
Squire Hillcrist.
one
As
and
turn
of
Upon
her
has
On
right
her
both
the
has
of
of
because
hoped
to
the
to
to
get
of
insists
ances
acquaint-
intimates
that
and
Rolf
blower,
Hom-
ilies,
respective faminterest
awakening
avert
clash, seek
conditions.
handbag
by this
their
an
new
tically
prac-
done.
Jill Hillcrist
members
Hillcrists
Rolf
left behind
to
turns
re-
by
Chloe.
(as
"
Rolf
appears
outside
the
window).
Who
there?
Rolf
after
"
Chloe's
Jill
through
floor
(buttressedagainst
bag.
the
"
"
against
Rolf
"
the
It's
it?
Jill
Rolf
leftlintel). Enemy
!
all's ill.
And
Pass, enemy
(Rolf passes
the window,
and
retrieves the vanity bag from the
where
Chloe
dropped it, then
again takes his
stand
is
had
she
Mrs.
Both
only
sort
"
when
upset
vaguely
but
another.
house.
not
the
of
word
and
rather
are
Hillcrist
what
battle
themselves
insulted
goes
for
whom,
other,
to
Jill
make,
yoimgest
of
readjust
the
to
of
eve
Hillcrist
judge
the
in
later
the
Mrs.
be
to
reasons
the
each
But
issue
Homblower
JUl
his
is declared
Chloe
from
to
repugnant
trusted
"war"
definite
the
on
keep
not
be
to
daughter
wishes
the
in
his
not
wiU
statement
her
is
"bargain"
who
factories
build
to
man
is
affairs.
she
she
which
of
orders
Hillcrist
be
to
if the
that
Such
brought to
openly insults
Hillcrist
is Homblower
honor
plan
is
that
war
his
transaction
result
1920-1921
could
Hillcrists
in
his
by any
appeal to
though he admits
moved,
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
526
You
"
"
Sins
know
of
it is.
the
fathers
"
window.)
difference,
any
"THE
Jill
What
Unto
"
and
generations.
fourth
committed?
only,
way;
should
you
327
treat
us
told
often
I've
you
outsiders.
as
We
like it.
don't
Jill
Well,
"
shouldn't
Rolf
just
Father's
"
wrapped
treated
shouldn't
you
be, then;
he
mean
be.
human
as
your
"getting on"
as
in us, and
all his
like to
be
treated
up
Would
us.
in
why
see
GAME"
third
father
my
None,
"
I don't
he's
the
sin has
Rolf
SKIN
you
Chloe?
Your
mother's
as
your
the
set
stroke
father;
is for
mother
for the
other
And
big-wigs about here; nobody calls on Chloe.
I think
it's contemptible to bar
Why not?
why not?
call it, and
they're new,
as
people just because
you
of having
it left
their position instead
have
to make
them.
Jill"
father
if your
treated
like
Rolf
"
Jill
think
"
you
Jill
spoiled?
"
Rolf
"
they're
like
Would
he?
It is
were
How
I'm
I don't
gentleman,
Jill
Rolf
Jill
"
above
would
not
Homes
don't
business
"
"
I did
it.
like
you
going
to
argue.
aren't
want
have
to
more
any
and
to
take
your
home
try to take
your
ours.
home.
Jackmans' ?
All right ! I see you're hopelessly prejudiced.
softly). Enemy?
(just as he is vanishing
the
"
"
Rolf
Jill
We
Like
"
be
it.
dog-in-the-manger
"
believe
"
"
he'd
"
petty.
it's because
new,
one.
still.
stand
behaved
I think
"
Rolf
because
It's not
"
hands.
"They
hands
from
the
center
of
move
in
PLAYS
BEST
THE
328
the
OF
lintels and
the
her
Finding
neighbors, the
craftily decides
to
blower, but
as
the
bid
Miss
of
who
put
the
against
each
other.
meet
for
place
worried,
salesroom.
in
their
hearts
the
their
that
auction
sale
there
and
the
which
are
is
every
the
as
plainly
limited
are
let
billiard
serves
Hillcrists
funds
Horn-
later
in
of
her
Gentry
or
month
end
The
that
knowing
one
the
Hillcrist
at
up
both
by
owns
either
sell to
to
provincial hotel,
desired
MuUins
not
auctioneer's
feeling
II
much
property
contesting families
the
window"
French
Act
room
other's
each
grasp
falls.
curtain
them
1920-1921
and
prospect
outbid
the
During
by Homblower.
month
that
has
of
elapsed following the declaration
been
neither
side
has
openly
aggressive, but
war
has
chance
that
neither
to
permitted any
might
pass
its cause.
Thus
Mrs.
dependen
inHillcrist, working
serve
the
has
HUlcrist
sent
Dawker,
solicitor,
of
their
to
London
life
being
learn
to
before
what
married
she
he
of Chloe
can
into
the
Homblower's
pottery
family,
and
the
As
the
pleased with
reports.
sale
begins, Chloe, catching sight of Dawker
talking
with
is visibly affected, though
she
a
strange
man,
her
Mrs.
Hillcrist,
covers
agitation as best she can.
bottle of smelling salts across
the
noting this, sends
a
rather
seems
to
room
From
her.
the
the
moment
auctioneer
Gentry
property
is put
up
by
the
well
the
"THE
Homblower
it
and
six
to
up
limit
of
willing
holds
as
with
last
thousand
of
Hillcrists
the
offers
and
elated
HoRNBLOWER
shaky,
from
seven
and
finally,
Duke,"
who
"
pounds
Hillcrists
the
Homblower
refuses
himself
quite resembling
Ye
pluckily,
very
crowd
the
the
enters
hundred
five
the
sume,
as-
to
bid
the
enters
flush
for
of
tory
vic-
cheeks.
tanned
"
of
Homblower
something
his
back
when
until
elated
"
mantling
bid
is
but
bidder
another
the
is
"It
are
with
room
very-
Homblower
the
thousand
nine
property.
again
runs
the
"
Still
when
at
stranger
bravely
the
seven
soon
one
"
to
Squire, game
the price mounts
by hundreds
five, eight, eight five
seven
to
field
Then
and
329
taking part,
resources.
more,
thousand
hands
GAME"
Hillcrist
Hillcrist
pay
on
then
thousand.
the
to
SKIN
ran
me
But
Hillcrist.
price.
pretty
up
didn't
ye
Ye
quite get
measure.
my
Hillcrist
Oh, it
"
Thank
capped.
gone
to
"
not
"
HoRNBLOWER
Gentry's
gone
(He
gentleman
nor
to
to
man
gentle-
laughs)
Duke
No,
fool.
the
It's
sorry
"
it
pay
when
that
D'you
for
ye;
"Well, it's
to
forget
Hillcrist
I'm
things.
had
I've
What
"
these
manage
I shan't
the
thousand
me.
Hillcrist
and
nine
Duke?
The
to
gone
my
the
God,
HoRNBLOWER
Gentry's
was
of
because
I
mean
to
come
to
say
ye 're
fit to
not
price,
monstrous
your
build.
that
obstinacy.
bid
for
was
you?
HoRNBLOWER
bad
now.
man
"
to
be
up
Of
coursc
against.
I do.
Perhaps
I told
ye
was
ye'U believe
a
me
PLAYS
BEST
THE
330
HiLLCRisT
OF
1920-1921
dastardly trick!
did
What
{withvenom)
Remember
we're
playing a
A
"
HoRNBLOWER
ye
"
game?
skin
call it
skin
"
game,
Hillcrist.
HiLLCRiST
shall
We
blow.
You've
"
it.
of
whether
see
I believe
round,
law
take
can
you
the
sir, by
stop
can
foul
vantage
ad-
any
you
ruining
property.
my
HoRNBLowER
I've
as
in
noose,
Hillcrist
fight
you
Hillcrist
foul
"
will not
be
outside
the
foul
play toward
pale.
That's
"
around
all
water,
ma'am?
be
in six
out
we.
(paying
"
HoRNBLOWER
pale,
shall
Amy
"
it can't.
you're mind
easy;
and I'm goin' to hang ye.
Homblower,
{suddenly). Mr.
so
"
Hillcrist
Mrs.
your
Make
"
got ye
Mrs.
to
this
won
months,
you
and
Ye're
And
You
yours.
just where
am,
it
are
outside
ye.
Make
attention).
no
neighborhood.
Chloe
{suddenly coming
not
the
closer to Mrs.
"
Here
are
salts, thank
your
HoRNBLOWER
Chloe
Mrs.
"
{surprised).
"
Can't
Hillcrist
you.
"
to
come
you
Just
so,
Mr.
Hillcrist).
Father,
Can't
can't
you
"
what?
arrangement?
an
Homblower.
Can't
you?
HoRNBLOWER
{lookingfrom
"
one
to
the
other).
As
it's your
behavior
to
speakin' out, ma'am,
my
who's
and
as
daughter-in-law
good as you
better,
that's
than
half
the
to my
thinking
more
reason
Ye've
dander
why I've bought this property.
got my
words.
it's no
to bandy
It's very
forNow,
use
up.
along!
givin' of ye, Chloe, but come
Mrs.
Hillcrist
Quite seriously, Mr. Homblower,
we're
"
"
"
"
you
had
better
come
to
an
arrangement.
"THE
HoRNBLOWER
their
Mrs.
Hillcrist
it is then
Squire
of what
Mrs.
Homblower
could
London
before
Dawker
is the
has
Hillcrist
to
Hillcrist
it
using
as
has
Dawker
want
the
weapon
to
brought
to
said, sir?
you
quite
well
you.
knowledge of
I'm
her
know,
to
the
wish
thank
worst
my
that
This
enemy.
it must
wise
of.
spoken
I
won't
pitch
touches
Who
weapon.
be
Amy.
no.
say
Homblower
if Mr.
be
It will not
"
"
of what
I remember
to
is not
dirty
believe
cannot
of.
spoken
If he
is wise.
which
Homblower
"
womenfolk
Hillcrist
Mrs.
life in
excessively distasteful
sure
I wouldn't
be
fight foul,
he sought to
Homblower's
of
she
when
to
those
Charlie
is
I don't
sorry.
mustn't
in mind
Hillcrist
you
was
"
his
first time
for the
chosen
Chloe
Perfectly.
then
about
had
from
detective
Are
"
Hillcrist
It's
keep
identify Chloe.
"
Stranger
truly
of
Homblowers
to
name
better
thought
the
learns
had
married
the
calls
Deepwater
he
as
story
she
and
the
He
Hillcrist
confirmed.
true,
against
her
nothing
expect
It
him.
Hillcrist,ladies should
Hillcrist
that,
injure.
story
331
I will.
"
that
something
he
Mrs.
"
GAME"
business.
own
told
SKIN
have
it.
shall
be
defiled.
Hillcrist
Mrs.
against us?
they know
they ought
and
"
Dawker
"
to.
must
we
Jill
Don't
it
Future
Hillcrist
Well, what
"
be
quixotic.
quite well
Anyway,
use
already, and
to
know
this is
if
tell,
can
we
they
use
don't
salvation
our
it.
for
member
"
he
does
weapons
all
For
(a
the
little
more
pitch!
J.
constituency.
P.
doubtfully).
"
To
Chapel
use
BEST
THE
332
PLAYS
about
piece of knowledge
I
do
I won't
"
If
"
such
marrying
ignorant
1920-1921
woman
it's repugnant.
"
it.
Hillcrist
Mrs.
OF
had
you
would
woman,
wish
you
into
tricked
son
remain
to
of it ?
Hillcrist
{struck).
"
don't
know
don't
"
know.
Hillcrist
Mrs.
position
Hillcrist
Mrs.
Well
"
at
knowledge
Jill
"
Mrs.
least
least
if you
that
should
that
agree
you
What
I can't
feel
Mrs.
like
never
brought
up
do it, Amy
I can't do
gentleman again.
Hillcrist
Hillcrist
Mrs.
{coldly). Oh,
"
What
"
d'you
Hillcrist
with
it.
I shall
"
use
the
I should
well.
very
by
mean
that?
in my
knowledge
way.
Hillcrist
Mrs.
Hillcrist
" "
against
"
it my
Homblower
"
don't
morally
It's
"
let's
the
have
necessary.
Mrs.
Hillcrist
do
told
it to
save
know
our
what
its
being
sldns.
you
mean
humbug?
Jill
He
"
Hillcrist
Mrs.
Jill
It
"
quite
you
Will
all
must
understand?
Hillcrist
"
humbug,
means
it
"
stop?
"
to. Amy;
about
humbug
I don't
"
I'll consent
utmost
any
We
duty.
being
all I want.
"
Hillcrist
wishes?
my
consider
If I agree
to
That's
Hillcrist
Mrs.
and
would
You
"
Hillcrist
Do
the
hurt
to
was
"
Horn-
quiet!
"
woman.
affair.
our
ia
Mr.
does
he
be
to
"
told.
be
like
you'd
thought it necessary?
perhaps.
Then
"
is not
Hillcrist
never
"
Hillcrist
blower
own
him
help
to
At
"
Quite.
mother.
stop
at
old
Homblower.
by
"THE
SKIN
Hillcrist
Mrs.
Jill
333
keep
can't
you
pertinen
im-
your
"
"
I'm
"
Jill,if
"
yourself
with
Jill,come
mother,
sorry,
to
Hillcrist
GAME"
me.
it is
but
skin
game,
isn't it?
Hillcrist
Mrs.
pride yourself on
speech, Jill. I pride myself on
plain thought.
thank
will
know
sigh,
draws
herself
write
in the
them
see
with
London
his
"The
he
note
morning,
later
make
old
that
rhinoceros
of his
The
at
and
nose
She
decided
has
is
Rolf
getting
on,
"
don't
do
you,
to
Rolf
"But
them
Homblower
at
'em!"
to
boudoir
"Chloe,
in
of the
sofa,
end
lips are
in
We'll
got
Homblower's
forward
go
guilt.
man,"
gentle-
confidence.
knowing
evening.
before
night
tea
very
and
her large
parted,
if seeing ghosts."
as
dinner
because
to
comes
see
of
how
on.
do
anything I can
(suddenly looking at him).
the
this quarrel with
want
Is
"
Ghloe
You
not
headache.
severe
she
straight
stare
of
we've
"
Ghloe
same
calls
right.
the Gentry
back
with
to
long
Londoner.
all
us
places
is standing by the
gown,
still and
pale. Her
very
eyes
the
to
Chloe's
sell
winks
the
thirty
seven
he
changes
scene
not.
are
"
of
too
"
Homblowers
price. These
emphasize which
Homblowers.
much
mare's
gray
decent
side
they
proof
explains
The
count.
these
will guarantee
his coming
Dawker
is to be there
and
and
squire's squeamish
don't
To
that
agents
Dawker
than
You
realities.
see
Hillcrist, "with
fine and
proud," and
tells the
solicitor,that
up,
can
Mrs.
will, she
Homblower
stay, and
to
conclusion
She
that
people
which
Dawker.
to
going
are
we
At
better
are
we
Here
afterward
me
plain
You
"
there
Rolf
for
you?
No, dear
Hillcrists
boy.
to
go
Rolf
Chloe
Will
"
"
slip around
you
RoLP
"
while
here
you're
Rolf
expected
she
in hand.
is wrapping
by
five minutes
wouldn't
"
the
to
comes
window
in, and
and
out,
at
Then
in
the
HoRNBLOWER
Chloe
Dawker,
summon
prepares
interview
them
knock
to
gone
for the
has
it.
me.
dinner
stop
Imow.
nobody'd
With
see
if he
But
at
and
to
it's not
"
Charlie
know.
able
be
might
come
and
Father
"
Chloe
to
Dawker's
to
him
ask
and
"
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
334
door.
The
Homblower
elder
"
enters.
are
ye
feelin',
Chloe?
Chloe
Awful
"
HoRNBLOWER
had
that
from
to
importance
I shall
daughter-in-law.
o'clock
of
something
regard to your
tell you
in
be
waiting
morning.
happiness of all
up.)
sits
have
to
The
tomorrow
"I
I've
moment?
(Chloe
woman.
utmost
eleven
attend
ye
(reading).
HoRNBhowER^
the
Can't
"
note
head
see
at
you
is
matter
so
family that I
will fail to come."
what's
Now,
Is it sheer
impudence
or
lunacy
your
what?
Chloe
"
don't
HoRNBLOWER
anything
Chloe
quick
better
There's
"
look
(uot Unkindly).
"
ye'd
"
at
know.
him)
tell
if
there's
Forewamed's
me.
nothing;
Chloe,
unless
Unless
it's that
my
Hech!
Many
it's
father
armed.
fore-
(With
"
was
"
a
a
bankrupt.
HoRNBLOWER
Ye've
never
"
told
us
much
about
your
man's
been
famUy.
that.
"THE
Chloe
I wasn't
"
HoRNBLowER
father.
"
If that's
I'll remember
Chloe
it'll
Father,
it'd upset
Looking at her
Chloe
6f
"
LOWER
there's
such
Chloe
want
thing
I've
not
know
to
I like
them
said
You
Charlie;
If
I went
rupt
bank-
doubt.
(He laughs.
was
them.
before
sure?
things,
on
I hate
the
o' slander.
If
they play
it.
you
But
account.
my
I don't
"
snobs
Ah, but
"
And
the
The
feud feeling).
Couldn't
girl. You
Couldn't
there, do you?
HoRNBLOWER
Stop
!
for
up
it
his
the laws
as
{timidly).
"
father?
defied
it?
lot of them,
Now
and
me,
and
Do!
stop it?
you
I've
I'm
going
I hate
Na,
bought?
to
that
show
them.
little Dawker
of all.
worst
that's
their
way.
and
there
and
everywhere
Chloe
But
"
they
HoRNBLOWER
here
into
"
own
me
their
chance,
show
'em
mind
to
what
it.
Homblower's
"
I'll not.
{lostin
"
I'll have
pranks
"
to
course.
HoRNB
no
them.
her?
answer
got with
say
no,
your
snobs!
bitter
anything
nothing.
for
Charlie,
The
I've
account
Na,
"
relief.
don't
him
HoRNBLowER
335
proud of him.
Well, ye'rs not responsible for
all, it's
worry
GAME"
very
it in the
"
only
SKIN
You
which
can
can
bit
but
a
they
leave
reply
me
affect the
to
take
wouldn't
like
man
just because
they did.
than
later
I'll not
tell
didn't
me
nothing
happiness
my
of my
it.
on
Hillcrist
of
when
skin
much
Mrs.
do
can
I've
did
me
come
gave
'em
Well,
he
sets
I'll
his
them.
read:
"Madam,
daughter-in-law
family. I regard
note
your
with
as
truly
and
leaves
ker
comes,
silence
but
With
""
"
he
him
to
offer
bribed.
"It
Yours
incident
the
needs.
be
not
morning.
she
the
by
be
to
first
shall
tomorrow
sleep
tries
1920-1921
and
accepts
the
to
Chloe
is not
he
o'clock
that
Chloe
from
OF
impertinence,
an
eleven
at
you
PLAYS
BEST
THE
336
ended
as
Daw-
When
of
promise
and
of money
jewels,
won't
Chloe,"
do, Mrs.
extract
I'm
and
in the
"you're a pawn
game
offers anyRather
going to use
you."
pitifully Chloe
thing
if
her
alone.
she has
leave
will
to
give
only they
"Is
life?"
there
to
anything you'll take not
spoil my
she says,
to her
ing
speakbreast; and
clasping her hands
under
her
Dawker
is
moved
breath, "Me?"
leaves
her,
by that offer, but he is still obdurate, and
that
she
is caught, as
rat
she wails, "like
knowing
a
in a trap."
he
her;
to
says
Charlie
finds
Homblower
her
of an
verge
which
she confesses
the
on
hysterical breakdown,
him
that
reason,
she
to
is
one
distraught, and
the quarrel with
Charles
partly to cover
she is going to have
explains, that she is
she
too, why
reason,
Hillcrists
the
look
Now,
"
to
child.
so
nervous
does
That
and
not
want
on.
go
here,
behind
what's
Chloe,
this?
Chloe
(faintly).
"
Charles
You're
"
were
really
have
them
of
ruination
to
the
chimneys
yards off, and
of the
time.
ahead
we
fast
and
shall
as
we
on
our
You
here
woman
carrying
scared!
out
much
take
never
can.
our
do
Behind?
We've
got
if
as
on
these
have
longer.
proper
that.
this
And
It's
we'll
then
place.
We've
only
we
put
them
half
stuck-up
really
can
long
to
solute
ab-
hundred
confounded
So
We'll
people.
in six months.
Deepwater
their
beastly old house;
the
three
edge, not
very
smoke'll
be drifting over
won't
if you
as
"
dnve
as
she's
on
now
go
here
as
"THE
Chloe
GAME"
337
(Tiiith
a
gesture). I see.
{again looking at Iter). If you go on like
know, I shall begin to think there's something
"
Charles
this, you
you
SKIN
"
"
Chloe
(softly).
"
Charlie!
(He
Iter)Love
to
comes
me!
Charles
know
women
Chloe
that's
and
loving
Charles
He
from
to
quite
Not
her
in
As
his
he
doorway,
attitude
to
see
help
and
turns
"Chloe
gets
in which
she
Hillcrists'
if there
to
tunes.
You
want
dinner,
have
you?
Charlie, don't
soon.
and
arms
the
girl!
much.
is not
straighten
rather
tries
awkwardly
blowing a
goes,
and
up
stood
stands
the
at
in
to
kiss
cisely
pre-
beginning
thinking."
Act
To
old
finished
bed
Stop?
her.
the
of the
haven't
I'll go
"
the
these
at
There,
me.
takes
comfort
her).
all.
You
"
back,
stop
funny
are
good night,
Go
(embracing
"
III
study
next
some
way
matters
morning
that
out.
hard
he
But
and
he
Rolf
comes
Jill can
finds
that
and
young
"
of
He
Chloe's
past,
and
is still convinced
trick
him.
Homblower
soon
that
an
attempt
is
is
announced.
being
made
to
HoRNB
LOWER
and
trick
to
what
see
Mrs.
me
quite ready
do
to
as
Or
law
of
are
to
Are
have
You
up?
there's
man
at
stop
familiar
you
law
that.
with
Homblower?
(taken aback).
Hillcrist
And
required.
arranged.
what
"
about
I'm
No,
That
not.
you've
loiow
it's all
say
marriage,
was
is to
strange
that
in
cases
who
man
with
to
misconduct
that
suppose
When
"
the
hotel
sorry
know
heard
that
cases
shocking
very
"
it?
Homblower,
an
"
Hillcrist
Mrs.
Well, you
"
HoRNBLOWER
the
not
made
knov/
ye
lies
"
Mrs.
is
course
divorce, Mr.
"
be
want
we
what
ye
(calmly).
"
better
shall
but
Well,
have
I'm
Hillcrist
had
we
"
presence;
do!
what
slander.
face.
you
it is
what
ye
Of
HoRNBLOWER
is
Oh,
Dawker?
her
to
just
not
possible.
as
"
if it's
"
Homblower,
I'epeat it in her
to
hearin'?
Mr.
me.
hearing
little harm
been
and
Mr.
"
HoRNBLOWER
ye
to
that
says
my
Well, I've brought
note
"
after
that
1920-1921
Hillcrist
decide
lied
has
OF
sccond
Your
"
daughter-in-law
her,
PLAYS
BEST
THE
338
your
the
habit
arranged,
are
be
divorced
I
woman.
often
Mr.
visits
extremely
am
daughter-in-law, before
of being employed
as
her
such
woman.
HoRNBLOWER
Dawker
"
(quickly).
HoRNBLOWER
lyin'
to
proved,
a
up
I'll have
to
word
dare
How
Dawker,
creature
believe
skins.
your
monstrosities?
All
I don't
"
save
dreadful
Ye
"
ye
ye
the
of it.
tell
in
me
hilt!
Ye're
such
criminal
court.
Dawker
"
Well,
Rats!
he's
HoRNBLOWER
Mrs.
Hillcrist
You
saw
employed
A
"
"
put-up
Go
and
gent
with
me
day?
yester-
her.
job
Conspiracy!
get your
daughter-in-law.
"THE
HoRNBLOWER
shame
Hillcrist
Mrs.
fetch
and
foul
Ghloe,
{seeing
word
"strung
all that
breaks
has
but
is
"It
stands
Dawker
HoRNBLOWER
complete
a
staggered and,
will.
first
defiance,"
her
confession
taking
with
face
Horn-
that
out
her
colored
brow."
convinced?
you
Take
those
men
away.
satisfied, we
get other
can
{lookingat Chloe).
Leave
out.
{with
"
with
alone
me
enough.
her.
Don't
outburst).
an
That's
Charlie!
tell
tell Charlie!
"
(Chloe
life.
got
ye
ye, ye
Chloe
out
wreck
ye've
How
future!
Chloe
of by
"
HoRNBLOWER
that
So
moaning
was
sound.)
into my
marryin'
manner
your
So
family.
"
HoRNBLOWER
Shame
tell Charlie
And
"
My
wrought.
dared
ye!
If you'd been
me
"
An'
all
that's
ye
family,
can
my
say
Don't
Hillcrists.
thcsc
call
the
my
"
The
(breathless). Father!
"
for
works,
of it !
Chloe
that's
thing!
Don't
"
Charlie
utters
Godless
HoRNBLOWER
game
his
"
HoRNBLOWER
on
Go
plenty.
them
Don't
what
and
so
HoRNBLOWER
of
unmoved).
covering
If you're not
"
evidence;
stands
and
"
Dawker
Chloe
been
when
Are
"
them
hardness
to
wipes
handkerchief,
Take
in
of it.
up
do^vn
hands.
blower
If so,
"
passionately,
she
of being
her.
believe
denies
339
lying slander!
it's easily disproved.
"
"
HoRNBLOWER
don't
GAME"
"
It's
net).
SKIN
me
that, woman!
skin
Chloe
{desperate).
"
HoRNBLOWER
people
HoRNBLOWER
his
know
that
be
can
HoRNBLOWER
"
{staring
"
"
live
without
HoRNBLOWER
Go
out
When
demands
the
and
car
wait
Hillcrist
Mrs.
know
to
for
returns
the
for
life
as
new
see
ye.
him.
to
forgive me,
her hands.)
never
I'm
{bewildered).
You
me
in
faithful
I'm
it !
that
woman,
{Stretchingout
"
"
to
it.
make
revealed
her
at
You'll
him.
Charlie
but
keep
can
keep
live
didn't
Charlie;
I love
"
Don't
know,
"
forehead).
must
told.
him
have
won't
desperate!
nothing.
can't
anyone
Charlie!
Chloe
tell
don't
it, do
of
sake
the
For
wiping
I don't
Poor
"
shall!
{again
us.
It's horrible.
Chloe
child.
are
and
want;
"
between
secret
Ye
have
to
Charlie!
tell
Don't
1920-1921
going
I'm
grandchild.
Your
these
what
God
"
-^
Chloe
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
340
all
at
here.
sea
me.
the
to
price
she
Homblower
room
will
take
the
for
secret.
Mrs.
Hillcrist
five
Mullins
hundred
Hillcrist
Hillcrist
the
price
altogether.
at
out
"
have
you
HoRNBLOWER
of
At
pocket.
"
harm
you.
"
ye
made
will
what
The
taken
gave
shall
we
pay
me
nine
pounds.
We
"
"
would
us
which
For
"
HoRNBLOWER
Mrs.
If you
harm
of the Gentry
"
us
"
buy it
price?
at
Gentry
at
from
the
first, and
four
fine
price,
Na,
no!
I'll
and
keep
price
Miss
Longmeadow
thousand
you.
five
six
me
it
and
hundred
thousand
hold
it
over
Ye
ye.
"THE
SKIN
daren't
tell
this
341
secret
long
so
I've
as
it.
got
Mrs.
Hillcrist
thoughts,
sell.
must
you
We
Jaclcmans.
have
pur place ruined
ruin
it
Gentry
happen.
and
as
and
Mrs.
you
go
now
You
or
I'll
the
will
sell
is
the
us
will
mail.
black-
It's
Go
own
your
witness
no
power
what
not.
then!
There
ours.
you
know
you
well
Very
"
leave
like.
second
On
word
over
your
We
would
rather
you.
than
once
(writhing).
"
we'll
broke
trust
Longmeadow
Hillcrist
and
way
at
Homblower.
You
can't
when
HoRNBLowER
"
No, Mr.
"
the
to
GAME"
this
to
conversation.
HoRNBLOWER
(venontously)
"
By Heaven, ye
by Almighty God
're
clever
and
you
Will
woman.
family,
your
breathe
Mrs.
word
Dawker
drawn
and
of this
Hillcrist
swear
ye
that
shockin'
Yes
"
is called, and
the
presented
are
up,
thing
if you
"
of
agent
soul.
sell.
of
deeds
sale, previously
Homblower
to
that
won't
yours,
mortal
to
for
his
ture.
signa-
t'
Hornblower
Book
in your
God
hand
Chloe
Homblower
Hillcrist
Mrs.
please sign
our
pen,
shall
family
We
do
of what
any
living
No,
are
his eye
runs
witnessing.)
Dawker
we
first.
add
us
Hornblower
hands, both
no
To
words,
the
swear
word
to
"
first : I
swear
Mr.
that
"So
by Almighty
ing
concern-
soul.
Hoyiblower;
habit
after a furious
again
oath, Mr.
long
as
the
will
you
of
breaking
look
at
over
that
Take
I know
in the
not
(Hornblower,
words.
seizes
and
breathe
to
never
Hillcrist).
[to Mrs.
"
them,
signs,
Homblower,
Homblower
harm."
"
of ye,
{with a snarl).
and
together swear.
Take
it
in
your
BEST
THE
342
I will breathe
blower
to
family
Dawker
"
in
it is
far
swear
Both
but
her
she
that,
she
argues,
and
holds
The
lapse
the
her
mother
I'd
glad
to
try
a
knock
of friendliness
from
taken
is little
joy
sympathy
to
see
dissuade
like
some
her.
her,
that,"
one,"
is lowered
indicate
to
momentarily
a
At its rise it is evening. Through
of the study the
figure of Chloe,
hoturs.
window
black
husband.
my
intention.
her
few
French
a
I'd be
curtain
of
and
firm, "Suppose
to
for
asserts
"
too.
I engage
"
father
is
the
Hillcrist
and
Chloe
1920-1921
harm.
no
for
in
us
Hillcrist
Mrs.
So
do
-
(taking
"
no
Homblower
OP
that
I swear
Book).
of what
I know
word
concerning Chloe
living soul so long as the Hornany
Hillcrist
Mrs.
PLAYS
cloak, is
seen.
back,
"She
moves
past,
comes
cloak, fallen
hesitatingly enters.
back,
reveals
white
that
a
evening dress, and
magpie figure
stands
poised watchfully in the dim
light, then
flaps
and
left
if
she
could
unhappily
not
right, as
keep still.
she
stands
Suddenly
listening."
Inside
the study Jillis lighting the lights and
making
father
her
of
her
to
visit
Chloe.
to
sketchy report
a
The
"She
looked
at
about
it?'
And
you
to
has
she
married
you
know
aU
She
"
"
of
Oh!
in that
Hillcrist
committed
Homblower
young
out
aw'ul
suppose
done?"
Hillcrist
Jill
said, 'I
of
said, 'Only vaguely,' because,
I don't.
she said, 'Well, it was
And
decent
of
come.'
Dodo, she looks like a lost soul.
What
course,
came
and
me
"
certain
her
without
world
to
do
real
crime
when
telling him.
she
She
it.
very
Some
"THE
stand
can
which
it, I suppose;
she
sort
Jill
SKIN
343
I don't
can't.
some
knov
is.
One
"
GAME"
thing
I'm
of:
sure
she's
fond
awfully
of
Charlie.
HiLLCRiST
Jill
she's
That's
"
And
"
she's
Jill
dark
Jill
{feelingly).
it
was
anything
It
is
to
must
never
"
ever
wind.
What
I feel
blundering
awfully
sorry;
"
Chloe
and
of
thought
Hillcrist
I'm
human.
more
rustling outside
window
the
draws
into
her
husband
her
and
Charlie, realizing
house.
just blows
been
I've
wind
hot
bricks
I knew
it
on
day here.
that
gets in the
here
sell
to
he
truth.
the
{dully).
since
the
has
that
has
never
{Her voice
being a fool
there
"
all this
in the
was
Never.
gets out.
and
{desolately)
changes to resentment)
and
been
"
I feel
finds
to
know
month,
for
does.
always
the
come
paid
of
was
is
the
something
home.
One
and
do
can
anjrway.
Chloe
brought
It
H'm!
risky, Jill
I had to say something.
{disconsolately').
I went,
room.
we
That
"
"
Chloe
and
beastly;
was
as
Suddenly there
Jill,dashing out,
back
it
Oh,
"
feelings.
own
your
HiLLCRiST
Jill
by
are
passage.
"
if there's
that
think
up.
"
perhaps
glad
only
I dried
HiLLCRiST
like that
much
too
No;
"
course
bad.
very
frightened, horribly.
Women
"
in
that's
desperate.
HiLLCRiST
But
bad;
then
I've
But
sort
of life,I
repentant,
afraid
blows
he'll
and
never
all
344
THE
forgive
me;
find
saying
that's
going
clever, and
when
wouldn't
Charlie
his wife.
about
A
something.
there's
somethiiig
there's
satisfied
be
to
jealous; and
he's
bound
he's
knows
he
because
suspects
simply
He
here!
Look
it; but
That's
on
isn't
He's
it much
feel
then,
out.
"
keep
he
felt, and
ever
(energetically).
Chloe
man
I've
and
"
It is.
"
mustn't
anything
good bit.
Jill
to
child
than
worse
it's such
his
have
to
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
never.
"
here.
coming
he's
something
only thing is to tell him
positive, something he'll believe, that's not too bad
like my
having been a lady clerk with those people who
dismissed
here
and
on
having been
came
suspicionof
that
I could
to believe
get him
having taken
money.
Chloe
The
"
"
wasn't
true.
it
Jill thinks
much
conviction
which
into
Hillcrist
and
and
is
they
would
just
wife's
Chloe
her
"
had
do,
is
the
truth
hands)
here;
She
she
put
"
she
you
between
put
you
can.
he
disappear
is much
he
mind
to
create
wants
to
know.
they
is
had
promised
use.
of
out
transfixed
no
horribly
to
he
But
until
enters
of
as
tell
you
to
wait
what
him,
it is
all he
and
out
to
do
he
that
story.
chance
When
but
do
seen
forced
find
Why
been
will
disheveled,"
to
such
"Deception's
Chloe
Jilltry lying
Charles-
My
of
by
sure.
into
Still, he
trouble, if necessary,
I've
so
gives
garden.
the
"white
Chloe
put
Homblower
announced,
quickly
be
is not
grain."
the
Charlie
upset,
can
Hillcrist
Squire
against
feels
that
me
that
little
to
it.
to
it.
up
the
up
lie?
When
scoundrel!
(The face
curtains, parted
Liar
that
"THE
is
she
living
"
(HiLLCRiST,
sees
uncontrollable
tell
such
As
Charles
before
Mrs.
elder
and
be
It
fortunate
Dawker
heard
hand
hasn't
the
now
own
house
he
Mrs.
the
cries.
this.
of
Charles
the
of the
to
demand
Jill
house
of
me
by
false
me
that
made
tenses
pre-
servants
own
is due
be
ing
noth-
that
swore
defense
Homblower
and
signed
Why,
scandal
Chloe
he
"Ye
Hillcrist's
by
deed
of
out
sound
out
comes
that
child
Hillcrist
barely
are
from
pluck to
up
goes
I won't
got it
of
spreading
attack
living lie!
a
years
turned
toward
the curtains,
His
the
They
"Ye
is
is
her.
from
treachery,"
should
know!"
three
Homblower
him.
to
345
rushes
Hillcrist
and
with
of Chloe.
the
returned
the
done
curtain
in search
go
For
face alone
that listeningface.
emotion) And
woman.
the
drops
lie.
GAME"
whose
I've
me.
SKIN
the
uu-
entirely
to
Dawker.
upon
to
thoroughly angered, is determined
his deed.
have
Seeing it protruding from the solicitor's
grab for it and a struggle ensues.
a
pocket he makes
the room
when
den
The
swaying about
are
Jill'ssudmen
them.
the
toward
turn
entrance
They
stops
Hillcrist
and
Outside
in
the
window.
moonlight
Chloe's
motionless
Homblower
have
Charles
body in
their
arms.
They have found- her "in the gravelpit
But
Homblower,
"
just breathing."
Hillcrist
Mrs.
HoRNBLOWER
Bring
"
No.
"
in.
her
Take
her
The
to
brandy, Jill!
the
car.
Stand
of ye.
help from any
bear
her
take
Rolf
Charlie
{They lift and
up.
beaten
her away,
Jill follows) Hillcrist, ye've got me
son's
and
ye've destroyed my
disgraced hereabouts,
married
grandchild. I'm not
life,and ye've killed my
back,
young
""
"
staying
or
yours
in this
a
woman
I want
no
"
cursed
hurt, I will.
spot, but
if
ever
can
do
you
Dawker
HiLLCRiST
in
the
and
spoken
saved
nothing
had,
the
for
is
ends
it
not
in
that
what
you
blinding
this
skin
him).
is
It
this
hands
"
it
you're
evil!
Begin
He
heart.
existence.
begin
you
think
is
not?"
as
fight
he
you
mands.
demay,
game!"
not
you,
Dodo;
it's
For
am,
or
should
be,
don't
understand.
"
HiLLCRiST
if
house
HiLLCRiST
Mrs.
when
It's
me.
"
in
for
Dodo.
HiLLCRiST
master
The
there
Jackmans'
skin
game,
to
beloved
you,
loose
aU.
But
Hillcrist's
the
and
benefactors
them.
Squire
gets
{rushing
"
for
cottage
them
moved
after
their
forgotten
you
like
Jill
all
window.)
has
bad,
so
thank
to
their
"What
it
with
passes
the
at
Chloe
be
not
in
moment,
makes
Hom-
death,
(He
out
that
may
exultation
of
"What
and
it
shuffle
having
be
may
goes
word
back
that
Jackmans
and
dignity,
brings
Jill
what
hypocrfte.
Ye
"
certain
of
goodness
sorry.
HoRNBLOWER
with
and
Squeal
right.
the
have
presence
I'm
heart
my
That's
Dawker,
"
1920-1921
it.
began
You
threaten.
OF
(muttering).
"
blower,
PLAYS
BEST
THE
346
can't
When
we
"
are
they
stand
clean
began
now?
this
What's
fire?
(The
Curtain
Falls)
fight
we
had
gentility
clean
worth
THE
PLAYS
"Deburau."
By
Granville
Guitry,
Paris,
He
prominent
with
his
and
90
first
since
and
then
Putman's
son
of
Lucien
was
bom
favorite
for
"Le
has
dramas
in
London
Page,"
an
comedy.
bouffe,
opera
dozen
in
actor
romantic
contributed
written
include
"The
"Rococo,"
or
"The
more
He
Homiman's
and
Kingsway
of
latter
been
in
several
made
he
which
has
House,"
and
in
actor
theaters
Savoy
Leece,"
Dance"
an
once
he
for
His
Mad*4d
Morris
and
company
theater
Ann
of
"The
was
bom
manager.
Marrying
"The
Box."
Wrong
The
"The
Barker,
the
and
actor
"Waste,"
in
active
Inheritance,"
Voysey
Mr.
stage.
been
author,
as
plays
the
to
has
1877,
years,
many
the
fondness
play,
P.
tragedian,
is himself
by
1921,
G.
Guitry,
by
comedies
in
and
professed
by
French
1885,
21,
wrote
in
Published
Sacha
version
English
Copyright,
Barker.
York.
Februaiy
AUTHORS
Guitry.
Barker.
New
Sons,
THEIR
Sacha
Granville
Harley
H.
AND
Miss
manager
of
London,
at
Shakespearean
revivals.
"The
192
a
1,
stage
family,
his
mother,
the
major
was
gambols
success
"This
the
"Too
was
Out"
Way
uses
of
His
York.
New
musical
the
adapted
comedy
347
called
plays,
Lambs'
Later
"The
He
short
long play
to
Club
achieve
he
Dictator"
"The
and
devoted
theater.
many
at
first
the
Cooks."
Many
and
to
first
Craven,
T.
having
written
has
presented
them
in
lives
from
comes
John
Craven,
their
and
Craven
father,
Mayer
of
part
of
many
Ella
in Boston
bom
his
both
Copyright,
Craven.
Mr.
Craven.
Frank
by
Frank
By
Year."
First.
Girl
wrote
to
from
Home."
age
PLAYS
BEST
THE
348
made
Craven
in
of three
OF
1920-1921
his debut
actor
an
at
the
King."
Silver
"The
as
"Enter
She
has
made
"Enter
is her
Madame"
Miss
first
is also
Byrne,
pla5rwriting,but
at
attempts
many
orator.
collab-
Her
success.
practically
novice
as
playwright.
"The
He
Henrik
the
of
one
also
Archer.
Archer.
Published
York.
New
Knopf,
years
By William
by William
1921,
1920,
A.
Goddess."
Green
was
Ibsen
and
drama,
first
translator
is the
author
"a
study
including
called
"Masks
acting"
and
his
Macready"
"a manual
making,"
and
most
for
was
dramatic
foremost
England's
the
Archer
Mr.
Copyright,
by Alfred
of
of
in
dramas
the
books
several
the
Faces,"
psychology
"Life
work,
recent
many
critics.
of
on
of
of
"Play-
But
until
craftsmanship."
he wrote
Green
the
"The
Goddess,"
plot of which,
he says,
in a particularly vivid
to him
dream, he
came
tried his hand
had
In "Playat playwriting.
never
in fact, he frankly confessed
that
he did
making,"
believe
he ever
could
write a play.
not
The
success
of his first venture
has happily proved him
wrong.
"Liliom."
United
New
By
Franz
Plays,
Inc.
York.
January
12,
Mr.
1878.
of
Molnar.
Copyright,
Published
Molnar
He
by Boni
bom
was
was
the
son
"
in
of
1921,
by
Liveright,
Budapest,
a
we^thy
THE
PLAYS
Jewish
AND
merchant
universities
THEIR
and
AUTHORS
349
from
graduated
was
the
of
In 1896 he
Budapest and Geneva.
was
a
journalist and he began writing plays in 1902,
"The
Doctor"
being the first. He has nine long
plays to his credit, including four known
in this
"The
country,
"Where
Devil,"
Ignorance
"Mary
Rose."
by
1921,
is
James
as
to
of
his
M.
of
London.
Charles
Frohman
Barrie.
As
Copyright,
plajnvright Sir
American
to
After
Minister,"
Rival,"
"Liliom."
M.
Barrie.
known
"Little
Phantom
and
James
well
those
as
Is Bliss"
By
James
"The
audiences
the
production
twenty-odd
became
his
years
ago,
loyal
most
and
devoted
and
all
his
producer,
plays, including
"The
Admirable
"What
Crichton,"
Every Woman
"Peter
"A
Kiss
for
Knows,"
Pan,"
Cinderella,"
York
popular in New
were
frequently before
they
shown
is his first afterabroad.
were
Mary Rose
the-war
play.
"
"Nice
People."
"
Rachel
By
Crothers.
Copyright,
Crothers.
Miss
Crothers
is a
by Rachel
bom
in
West, having been
product of the Middle
111.
Both
her
doctors,
Bloomington,
parents were
192
1,
Eli
Dr.
After
Miss
and
studied
New
York.
many
author
Illinois
State
become
to
interest
Crothers.
School
was
Normal
of
Acting
turned
she
to
later
of
Little
Journey," "The
"The
Herfords,"
Bad
Man."
Cop3Tight,
in
192
a
1,
novelized
and
"39
Porter
By
by
of Us,"
Three
Porter
Emerson
actress
an
Lady
"A
in
play
staged
She
of the
World,"
"The
her
Louise
plajrwriting, and
and
production
the
Wheatcroft
the
Here
Marie
decided
Crothers
at
Dr.
from
graduating
school
"A
and
Crothers
is the
31,"
Man's
East."
Browne.
Emerson
Browne.
version, written
by
lished
Pub-
Charles
THE
3 so
Hanson
PLAYS
BEST
by G.
Towne,
Mr.
Browne
His
father
had
successfial
in
Beverly, Mass.,
playwright, though
As
York.
Sons, New
in
been
one.
1920-1921
Putnam's
P.
bom
was
OF
Mr.
man
young
1879.
never
Browne
braced
em-
seasons
wrote
"The
of
in
lives
to
"
drainas
he
years
and
however,
Fool
that
achieved
with
with
devotes
After
Bad
"The
immediate
an
later
unsuccessful.
were
and
Connecticut,
this
followed
and
back
came
He
Was."
There
Spendthrift,"
succession
eight
"A
as
Man,"
He
success.
his
of
most
time
short-story writing.
right,
CopyJones.
By Eugene G. O'Neill.
Published
G.
O'Neill.
by Eugene
by
1 92 1,
"
York.
Mr.
of
Boni
O'Neill, son
Liveright, New
bom
in Provincetown,
the actor
James O'Neill, was
is the
He
author
of
Mass., thirty-odd years
ago.
of them
short
written
for
the
plays, most
many
Provincetown
amateur
Players, an
organization
The
"
Emperor
conducts
which
Village section
"Beyond
and
of
New
the
theater
York.
in the
His
Horizon,"
Greenwich
long
"Gold,"
plays
"The
clude
in-
Straw"
"Chris."
"The
Skin
1,
192
Game."
by
By John Galsworthy.
Published
Galsworthy.
John
Scribner's
1890.
and
which
have
New
Sons,
Surrey, England,
be
to
lawyer
a
in
miniature
He
in
and
wrote
been
1867, Mr.
was,
gained
soon
later
York.
many
produced
in
Copjnright,
by Charles
Bom
in
Coombe,
Galsworthy expected
fact, called
fame
as
notable
in
Skin
Game."
the
novelist,
plays, many
America.
"The
"Justice,"
Mob,"
Silver Box," "The
Pigeon," "The
"The
to
These
"Strife,"
Eldest
Son"
bar
ever,
howof
clude
in-
"The
and
STATISTICAL
(June
SUMMARY
1920
"
June
192
1)
Girl
The
Between,
in the
OP
1920-1921
No.
Performances
No.
*Ghost
PLAYS
BEST
THE
352
Love
June
loo
50
*Just Suppose
Spotlight,
88
56
The
with
Girl
13
Times
*Green
456
The
Goddess,
Follies, The
of
175
Lady
Lady
*Last
192
The
Honor,
*Ladies'
Night
Billy
Moon,
72
The
Happy-Go-Lucky
Heartbreak
House
Family
188
the
of
Lamp,
III
The
Waltz,
43
*Liliom
65
Charity
Miss
Little
Half
360
The
Village
Greenwich
Guest
72
16
Gold
Good
Time
Kissing
mine
Car-
the
lips
Her
Performaricea
New
48
Little
Old
79
Love
Birds
York
77
308
105
125
Tree
98
(Lionel Bar-
Macbeth
Hero,
The
(matinees)
Hitchy-Koo,
*Honeydew
5
71
1920
rymore)
Hampden,
231
Importance
of
Earnest,
The
of
Being
44
the
13
24
(Sec.
Eng.)
John
The
Marry
Mary
Mary
Mary
Poor
the
Still
Hawthorne
running, June
Girl
18
219'
127'
Rose
Stuart
Meanest
Merchant
Merchants
Midnight
5
15,
'
15
40
Man
in the
The
i
202
128
of
Venice,
The
16
(matinees)
*
1921.
The
'
isl
Mecca
105
ple,
Peo-
Mandarin,
World,
the
Night Watch
in
Aulis
Iphigenia
(matinee)
It's Up to You
In
"
Violet
(Walter
rep.)
Macbeth
Man
Immodest
28
of Venus
64
Rounders,
120
STATISTICAL
2V".
Mirage,
*Miss
Mixed
*Mr.
Bett
Marriage
Pim
353
Performanca
The
Lulu
SUMMARY
No.
192
Romance
198
Rose
Performancei
106
Girl, The
no
124
By
Passes
Sacrifice, The
124
*Sally
Near
Santa
Barbara
Nemesis
New
15
56
Scrambled
The
Morality,
(matinees)
*Nice
People
207
and
Samson
Paddy:
Best
III
Silks
138
Skin
Thing
54-
Pagans
of 192 1
Passing Show
Peg O' My Heart
of
Phoebe
Quality
15
Pitter
Patter
Poor
Ritz
and
Princess
Robbery,
RoUo's
Still
The
The
Wild
Shop,
The
(Arnold
252
The
Tavern,
Three
5
228
15,
16
55
(George
1921.
27
Live
Ghosts
250
Musketeers,
Three
(mat.)
ranning, June
27
test,
Fit-
Cohan)
98
Oat
308
The
The
Thy Name
Tickle
Right Giri,
Daly)
155
16
Virtue
50
192
of the
Survival
Tavern,
per/The
Pau-
the
176
Silk
as
*Snapshots
Spanish Love
16
119
Prince
53
The
of
The
Giri,
The
27
Satins
Game,
88
44
Little
and
Sweetheart
200
iii
Poldekin
House,
*Sunkist
Next
Street
103
Along
Smooth
mer,
Pal55
The
60
Shuffle
The
in the
Servant
143
The
120
Opportunity
Outrageous Mrs.
Wives
Seeing Things
5
One
Delilah
Is Woman
Me
Tip Top
120
207
246
Toto
89
Transplanting Jean
40
THE
354
PLAYS
BEST
OF
1920-1921
Performances
No.
*Whiri
of
York,
New
The
White
Woman
The
Villa,
of
18
Bronze,
The
Young
252
The
Visitors,
16
Youth
Ziegfeld
Ziegfeld
Follies
123
O'clock
Frolic
Ziegfeld
Frolic
"
Still
running,
June
15,
1921.
35
Midnight
88
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
"SEEING
A
farce
in
three
produced
by
Margaret
Wagenhals
New
Adair
James
Moseley
Mayo
"
York,
CAST
Andrew
YORK
THINGS"
by
acts
NEW
Kemper
June
OP
and
the
at
17,
CHARACTERS
(" Andie")
John
(" Mousie
")
Mclntyro
Wadsworth
Cohstable
Patricia
("O")
Near
lake
and
family,
suicide.
Then
the
about
steps
Vantine
Home
Same.
of
Act
Staged
the
III.
under
and
satisfied
"
the
her
Mosely,
news
the
would
and
next
she
two
on
and
suspicions
her
portieres
and
into
comic
herself
side
friend
of
of
committed
has
playing
the
ghost
widow.
groundless,
were
her
the
by
acts
Andie
hesitate
not
clothes
fat
friend,
satisfy
To
that
convinced
is
widow
her
die
to
leaves
spying
that
the
with
Andie
were
the
wife,
young
that
Adair
spends
she
behind
from
The
"
flirting
Also
break
to
house
M.,
P.
II
is
"Mousie"
back
the
Night.
(Olive)
if she
sends
Marion
in
imaginative
Andie,
Mrs.
right
Mackaye
Authors.
highly
Pat
II.
Sunmier's
Bingham.
is
she
the
Mrs.
marry
the
of
Act
"
husband,
Patricia
that
York.
Time
Adair,
Mrs.
I.
New
Same.
Pat").
Room
"Living
("Mrs.
Act
Direction
to
Dorothjt-
Bingham
Adairs,
her
Wilson
Jay
Adair
SYNOPSIS:
Olive
Lillford
Harry
William
that
Westley
Frank
Gregory
The
Playhouse,
1920.
Yogi
Olive
Kennedy'
Aubrey
forgiving
At
she
husband's
arms.
FOLLIES"
"ZIEGFELD
and
Irving Berlin,
Gene
Dave
Buck,
Joseph
McCarthy,
Harry
Tiemey
Stamper,
and
Victor
Herbert,
by F. Ziegfeld, Jr., at the
produced
annual
Fourteenth
Amsterdam
New
music
production;
Theater,
W.
C.
Brice
Charles
Winninger
Granville
22,
Carl
Randall
John
Steel
Alda
Delyle
Carroll
Jane
Fields
Bernard
June
ENGAGED
PRINCIPALS
Fannie
York,
New
Dooley
Ray
lyrics by
Van
Staged
by
Edward
355
Royce.
and
Schenck
1920.
PLAYS
BEST
THE
3S6
"CINDERELLA
A
in
fantasy
two
and
Grant
Shubert
Harold
music
Atteridge;
by Bert
and
Lee
Goodman,
produced
J. J.
by
the
Winter
at
New
Garden,
York,
June 24, 1920.
by
PRINCIPALS
ENGAGED
Sexton
Al
Al
Joe Niemeyer
Price
George
Eileen
Van
Stewart
Brendel
Shirley
Renee
Biene
Royce
Dentling
Llora
HoSman
Constantin
Kobeleff
Baird
Jessica Brown
T.
John
Murray
The
Homer
William
Norma
Flo
Dickinson
Burt
J. C.
by
Glorias
Shayne
Al
Staged
1920-1921
BROADWAY"
ON
acts
Al
OF
Kinley
Gallo
Huffman.
Garden
the
adventvires
spectacle in which
ing
Charmby the heroine's
finding Prince
in a book
and
that
the
she
book
loses the
discovering
losing
is the
that
does
She
lose
Prince, because
only place he exists.
the
the
book
and
and
her
thereafter
in
Prince,
puts
evening
far as
the moon
and
back
to Broadway.
trailing him
as
typical Winter
of the
cast
motivated
are
"BUZZIN'
A
in two
revue
by William
Morrissey and Edward
Madden,
the
at
Casino
Morrissey
Theater,
New
York, July 6, 1920.
acts
produced
by
William
CAST
OF
CHARACTERS
Barrett
Betty
Walter
Minerva
La
AROUND"
Eliiabeth
Barrett
Violet
Belle
Donald
Ernest
F. Keene
Billy Hope
Big Harry
Henry
and
Jack.
Little
.Harry
Masters
and
Henry
Charlie
The
Charlie
Duke
of
Man
Property
Pinky
Brice
Walter
Wilson
Priscilla
Parker
Violet
Inglefield
Donald
Roberts
Ernest
F. Young
Will
Morrissey
Mixture
Jack Kraft
Rigoletto
Rigoletto
Robert
Jack
Helen
Clara
Milo
Inglis
Gladdings
Clara
Aleta
Carroll
Aleta
SYNOPSIS:
Act
II.
House.
of
"
Act
Scene
Scene
the
I
2
"
I.
French
Chinese
Scene
Scene
of
of
Backstage
"
Barrymores'
Procession.
Front
"
Betty's
Bungalow.
Mortgageville
Opera
Scene
Theater.
Home.
s
Scene
"
"
"The
Mikado
"
Hatchet
"
Chinese
Man"
yard
Courtding
Wed"
Fantasy.
6
Scene
Travesty.
Time
Apartment
District.
Your
Leisure.
Japan.
Place
L.
I.
Mortgageville,
Will
Staged
by
Morrissey.
"
"
"
"
"
typical vaudeville
revue.
PLAYS
PRODUCED
"THE
A
musical
Victor
IN
GIRL
IN
THE
NEW
YORK
SPOTLIGHT"
in two
acts
comedy
by Richard
Bruce;
Herbert, produced
by the George W.
the
at
Producing
Knickerbocker
Company
Theater,
New
York,
CAST
Tom
OP
July
12,
Remhard
Johnny
Dooley
Richard
Preiss
Molly
Shannon
Frank
Bess
Marvin
Pyle
B.
Carson
James
MUbum
Mary
Ben
Porbes
Minerva
Grey
Jessie
Lewis
Agnes
Patterson
Hal
Skelly
Clare
June
Watchen
Tripp
Nina
Romaine
Rawlins
John
June
Elvidge
Hendricks
John
Margot
Ruby
Julie
Laurette.
Lucille
Lillian
.,
SYNOPSIS:
Act
Todgers'
Scene
Theater
of
by
Lederer
1920.
Tolm
Bill Weed
Ned
Brandon
Mrs.
music
CHARACTERS
Pidding
Max
357
the
Room
Corridor
"
I.
Lodging
The
Scene
"
Rehearsal
Act
Company.
Theater.
Frivolity
for the First Night
House,
Hall
II.
"
Near
of Max
Scene
I
Converted
of
The
"
Sky
Washington
into
New
"
The
Set
of
Square.
Frivolity
The
Green
Room
Chorus
Dressing
Scene
Operetta.
in the Theater.
Scene
3
The
Scene
Last
of Preiss's
Opera,
after
the
Performance.
Supper
Young
Parlor
Preiss's
"
Lewis
Kent
Garden
for
Staged
-f- A
of Orchids,
Impromptu
an
by
George
W.
Lederer.
Shannon
Molly
is
attractive
Irish
girl who
helps
lodging houses
of
One
the
catering to professional trade.
lodgers happens
and
to be Prank
Marvin,
by
listening to him
a
composer,
young
his
know
them
to
comes
own
practice
MoUy
by heart.
songs
Which
has been
helps a lot when, after Marvin's
accepted
opera
and
is about
the
to be
produced,
(jealous cat)
leading woman
is
refuses
of the
to
score
sing. It is then
Molly's knowledge
the
service
discovered
donna.
and
she is pressed into
as
prima
the
She
day and
eventually marries
sings her head
o"E, saves
with
Frank
the
housework
one
of
young
those
New
York
Marvin.
midnight
at
revue
the
in two
Century
Vivien
Grace
Wheeler
Oakland
Ellsworth
Shubert
by the Messrs.
York, July 12, 1920.
parts, produced
Grove,
PRINCIPALS
John
ROUNDERS"
MIDNIGHT
"THE
A
an
at
New
ENGAGED
Muriel
De
Forrest
Purcella
Brothers
Ina Williams
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
358
Madelon
Toe
Lew
Opp
Hal
Hixon
John
Rosie
Quinn
May
Jack
Thompson
Woolf
"SILKS
musical
in two
revue
Weslyn,
George
M.
by
acts
Thomas
Theater,
lyrics by
Duggan,
produced
Rosebrook,
Leon
Cohan
Strauss
SATINS"
AND
by
music
Byam
Beers
Leo
Kelly
and
Blyler
Green
Tot
Qualters
Walter
La Varre
and
Walton
Lorraine
Heam
Harry
1920-1921
July
York,
New
Louis
the
at
15,
1920.
PRINCIPALS
ENGAGED
William
Helyn
Elby
Babette
Raymond
Thomas
Duggan
Jay Regan
Aileen
Stanley
Irene
Hazel
comedy
blackface
SEVEN"
in
acts
CAST
Urias
Lithia
Charles
Harry
Meyer
Emerson
A.
Hanlin
Thomas
Gunn
Kane
Gail
Lucille
Susanne
Blevins
Chew
La Verne
Willis
Eleanor
Montell
Carrie
Lowe
Goins
Act
Days
Two
"
Foxe
W.
Henry
Chew
Goins
Nesbit
II.
Aylsworth
Earle
SYNOPSIS:
Florian
CHARACTERS
Deegers
Vistar
Elzevir
Mrs.
1920.
19,
Arthur
Evans
Cohen,
Broadhurst
the
at
July
Huff
Lawyer
Act
Next
Home
York,
Slappey
Mashby
Probable
Mrs.
Mrs.
Broadhurst
Roy
Octavus
by
Nesbit
Florian
Semore
Cass
three
OF
Hart
and
Bemice
Webb
Hines
"COME
by George
Theater, New
produced
Meyers
Daugan
Delphi
Harry
Rock
Ernestine
The
Evening.
I.
"
Morning
of
Later.
Evening.
Action
Play
of the
The
of Mrs.
Goins.
Lillian
Trimble
Bradley.
Time
is
Summer
Act
Takes
Today.
III.
Place
Day.
The
"
in the
Staged
by
motors.
Slappey,
He
induces
PLAYS
Vistar
it to
"lady
Goins,
maiden"
ring
the
PRODUCED
Nesbit, who
pUcations galore until, in the
and
Florian
pay
them.
They
the
the
under
So
Mrs.
Nesbit,
for
CENTURY
her
Shubert
the
at
in
comedy
Lorenz
lyrics by
musical
Central
the
12,
M.
characters
actors
are
and
CAST
music
Theater,
Lillian
Annie
Lawrence
Farrell
Richard
by
produced
York,
New
York,
C.
Rodgers,
Fields
Lew
by
July
27,
Russell
CHARACTERS
(Sweetie)
Florence
Charles
Webber
Andrew
Tombes
Stevens
Bums
Helen
Bond
Mile.
Donald
Elsie
-R"*
"
Mordky
Manager
Michael
Blair
Kerr
Bonwit
Hale
"
Dolly
Lova
Stage
Cleaves
Eugenie
Marguerite
Mons.
Purcell
Ardele
Arden
Dorothy
DePuyster
Jane
Teddie
Griffith
McConnell
Aileen
Poe
Lulu
Pembroke
William
by
GIRL"
Eleanor
Merrill
Madge
Dr.
OF
ored,
col-
white.
1920.
Hart,
Arden
gen'-
are
1920.
Barbara
when
produced
New
Grove,
RITZ
acts,
two
place
rering
crafty lady,
of two
possessor
Shubert
Century
LITTLE
"POOR
to
property
the
to
return
cannot
own
to
REVUE"
staged by J. J.
acts
Messrs.
at
Nesbit
July
buy
Mrs.
the
at
in two
revTie
ring
is forced
ring
he
Com-
own.
the
not
was
"THE
A
for
and
paste
diamonds
but
recognizes it as her
end, the pawnbroker
they "borrowed."
one
Goins
awine
$300
$300
the
substituted
having
Miss
Urias
take
359
Palm
Mrs.
to
YORK
NEW
in
IN
Clements
Cunningham
Simpson
Grant
Act
SYNOPSIS:
Scene
Midnight.
of
of
The
"
"
Scene
Scene
Staged
"Sweetie''
apartment
musical
on
she
when
learns
William
belongs
not
given
to
of
Pembroke,
stay
later
while
on
they
The
"
the
Frivolity
the
M.
A.
"
Apartment.
of
is
o'Clock
Ten
of the
in
the
Scene
Performance
Scene
City.
York
New
"
Theater.
Frivolity
Performance.
Opening
rented
a
girl, having
of a
Riverside
Drive
run
diiring the
she is appearing, is startled, not
to say
the
late' one
night that
apartment
honest
she
he
chorus
rich
permission to
occupying his
hardly sing,
anyone
intention
an
in which
comedy
amazed,
After
M.
Waybum.
Farrell,
furnished
the
Ned
by
"
Pembroke,
Any
Apartment.
Door
Stage
Apartment.
The
"
A.
"
11.
Time
WilHam
During
"
Frivolity
of
Stage
Rehearsal.
of
Scene
Morning.
2
Theater.
Rehearsal.
During
a
The
Scene
Stage
Apartment.
4
Performance
the
During
Opening
Next
1920-1921
"
Dress
Time
Theater.
Girl."
Ritz
Scene
Scene
"
York.
New
Little
"
"
Frivolity
the
"Poor
II.
Act
Drive,
Riverside
Stage
I.
During
a
Apartment
Broadway.
Theater,
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
36o
rent
own
but
meant
no
himself
puts
he
and
at
up
with
"Sweetie"
convinces
harm
had
home
comes
bedroom.
she
He
bachelor.
young
it and
is
is
Bill, who
decides
he
the
to
Two
club.
so
a
let
acts
married.
are
"OPPORTUNITY"
A
play in
Brady
four
at
Davis, produced
by Owen
Forty-eighth Street Theater,
July 30, 1920.
the
CAST
OF
New
Canfield
Nellie
Kenneth
Ross
Tyler
Peggy
Graham
Fisher
Canfield
Mrs.
Mrs.
Gladys
Amy
Helen
Silley
Dempsey
MacKenna
Nita
Naldi
Eveta
Knudsen
Nora
Isabel
Nora
May
Ada
Nelson
Dorothy
Mortimer
Sprague
Vernon
Lamison
Howell
Belts
Lola
Felice
Dickson
Walter
CahiU
Clifford
Ladd
Josie
Crane
Leonard
Dow
Jimmie
L.
Lily
James
Wayne
Harrison
York,
CHARACTERS
Bradford
Larry
Joyce
Joe
William
by
acts
Taylor
Dougherty
Grace
Ulric
Haddon
Henry
Collins
Davies
Al. Roth
Bob
Hartley
Charles
Cooper
Mr.
Du
Bill
Jepson
Val
Cliff Worman
Sommers
Maurice
W.
George
A.
Bumell
Armstrong
John
Morgan
A,
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
YORK
NEW
Walters
G.
Hattie
A.
Stryker
Calkins
Cora
General
Mellen
Rodger
Osgood
Doctor
Robert
SYNOPSIS:
Forsythe
Horace
Richard
Watts
Act
Brokers.
I.
361
Weston
Clark
Scene
Office
" Werof Ladd
ner,
i
Scene
Mrs.
Fisher's
Boarding
2
Wall
House.
Act
II.
Office
of Bradford
"
Company,
Street, One
Year
Later.
Act
III.
Scene
I
Josie Tyler's
Central
Park
'Two
Months
Later.
Apartment
West,
on
Stock
"
"
"
"
"
Scene
the
puts
he
his
of
steel
on
to
the
million
prey
he
The
"
Frank
He
million
want
Time
Hatch.
Attacked
Street.
boy in Wall
he, as well as his employers,
to
boundless
ambition
two
wants
acts.
But, although
in
stenographer
the
the
money,
between
two
need.
was
his
saves
or
or
girl who
is stUl
Sixty-third
on
by
bonds.
wotdd
he
employer's office, he
his kind.
Having a
in
and
acquires
thought
it.
that
stocks
and
Staged
office
decides
married
happily
York.
smart
of
game
is all he
is
New
"
is
of the
Bradfords'
Home
The
Same,
the Next
Day.
"
itch, he
the
it all
That
IV.
Place
money
play
can
Act
Bradford
Larry
by
Library
"
Street.
Present.
"
he
his
state,
Also,
highly nervous
He
interest
in a vampire.
acquires an
in his favorite
he tries to manipulate
when
stock, and
a
comer
he
breaks
the
suffers
Then
vampire's
nervous
collapse.
a
up
to
get
and
furniture
who
and
returns
loyal
was
to
the
to
drama
in four
comedy
produced
by
Wilde,
Theater,
CAST
Bob
acts
A.
by
H.
York,
New
OF
Samuel
Woods
July
CHARACTERS
Pumell
O'Neill
Granville
-ilrs.
Fred
Robertson
Van
Randall
Mclntyre
Graham
Mr.
Edward
Louise
McWade
Fielding
Macintosh
Taylor
Stetson
Van
Doyle
Kelly
Lackaye
Helene
Robert
Arsdale
Turner
Williams
Pratt
Meade
Doris
Robertson
Arsdale
Van
John
Evelyn
Mr.
Mr.
1920.
31,
Tommie
Leonard
anet
Mrs.
wife
Percival
Hudson
the
at
Bobbie
Henry
the
and
Shipman
Dryden
im
and
GAMBLERS"
"CROOKED
A
life
conservative
him.
Maude
Arsdale
Holmes
Hanaford
Felix
Krembs
George
"
"
Lyman
"
William
Edmund
Don
B.
Mack
Abbey
Merrifield
Stone
Charles
Brown
Lorimer
William
Martin
Mather
S.
Ely
Alsop
BEST
THE
362
SYNOPSIS
9.20
Office.
Time
P.
2.SS
Time
Next
Morning.
Stetson
and
M.
P.
Act
IV.
M.
Bob
stock
as
8
P.
Turner's
II.
Six
Office.
Scene
a
Turner's
"
Time
"
Office.
Time
"
A.
10
"
M.,
Milton.
made
is keen
and
M.,
Lorimer's
Curb.
"
have
Dryden
Dryden
company
The
5
Act
Robert
by
"
Scenes
"
Same
"
"
Tire and
Dryden
Room
Living
Morning.
A.M.
Scene
P. M.
Scene
business.
organize
Stetson, being
a
Following
-11.00
"
Staged
and
rubber
to
"
the
1. 00
"
2.4s
"
Time
III.
Scene
Time
"
Act
II.
About
" "
M..
A.
1920-1921
of Stetson
M.
P.
2.30
Act
Office.
OF
Office
"
Apartment.
Time
Lorimer's
"
I.
"
Later.
Months
tire
Act
Time
Rubber
Co.
Stetson's
in
John
PLAYS
for
of
success
the
expansion,
stock
the
put
eager
market.
the
on
well
alone.
enough
manipulator
the
wins
is incorporated, and
the
Dryden
argument,
company
the stock
is happy
is floated.
and
Prosperity follows
everybody
until Stetson
learns
that the stock
is
jobber
planning to wreck
the
force
down
the
of
the
ruin
those
who
price
stock,
company,
in
have
and
then
low
and
at
start
another
bought
a
buy
price
boom.
than
let this happen
he fights his former
Rather
partner
in every
he
all
his
into
Wall
Street
resources
throwing
way
can,
With
the
conservative,
influence
added
of
prefers to let
professional
a
stock
" "
to
the
the
prevent
third
achieves
consummation
he
act
faces
victory
aU
and
in
comedy
produced
Austin
David
the
CHARM
three
acts
by
Robert
scheme.
in
but
the
Alice
by
Duer
Milton
August
CAST
OF
2,
Sam
Morgan
Marie
Diipree
Blyth
Daly
Kent
Florence
McGuire
Carolyn
Theodora
Arnold
Larocque
McLaughlin
Frances
Mary
Gray
Act
of
an
I.
Evening.
"
New
Old-fashioned
Scene
of the School.
Lalter. Act III.
Weeks
The
York
Hall
T'^o
Road.
Mead
CamiUa
Constance
SYNOPSIS:
the
Dale
Minnie
Stafford
About
Carroll
Margaret
Madge
Main
Farley
Holmes
Rapley
Boyd
The
Gleason
Martin
Nell
Curtis
Floor
Hardy
Simpson
Ivan
James
Lillian
Scene
of
Milton,
New
CHARACTERS
Benedotti
Top
Robert
1920.
Muriel
Doughty
Ethel
Splevm
Alix
Mercier
on
and
Hays
Charlotte
Dotsie
end
suddenly
Bijou Theater,
the
at
York,
Miller
Bevans
MacKenzie
Sally
the
he
SCHOOL"
George
Boyd
Jim Simpkins
Tim
Simpkins
Homer
Johns
Elise
Miss
Miss
At
fottrth
is well.
"THE
A
of
defeat,
"
The
Next
i
"
"
Boys'
Room
House.
Noon.
Scene
Morning.
Lyon
McLaughlin
Scene
i
"
the
on
Act
II.
2
"
"
Midnight
PLAYS
Austin
not
Bevans,
learns
that
as
he
IN
studious
successful
very
he
PRODUCED
has
lad
and
ever
automobile
an
inherited
YORK
NEW
of
estate
is
good-looking,
so
salesman.
the
363
Unexpectedly
deceased
relative,
ideas
on
Having
the
of which
is a girls' school.
principal asset
the
of
of girls,who
subject
education, especially the education
all things, be taught," charm,"
he elects to become
should, above
the
and
take
principal of the institution
a
quartet of his bachelor
assistant
cronies
along as
professors. His plans do not succeed,
class
senior
of the
the
handsome
leader
largely because
young
falls in love
with
assistant
and
he
with
while
the
him,
her,
Bevans
finally
professors are
similarly embarrassed.
Young
is forced
to
give up the school, but he promises to wait for the
senior.
in
comedy
three
Ditrichstein
by
acts
and
York,
New
CAST
Henriette
Brieux, produced by
the Comedy
Theater,
Eugene
Shubert
Lee
PRANCE"
IN
AMERICANS
"THE
at
August
3, 1920.
CHARACTERS
OP
Blanche
Charvet
Jeffry
Appolonie
Henri
Frankhn
Charvet
Smith
Capt.
Wayne
Richard
Bonain
Etienne
Charvet
M.
M.
Frank
Act
Act
Smith
Captain
American
He
is
Smith
may
be
two
Terrace,
"
Same
as
Act
converted
E.
F.
and
the
U.
Captain
Time
"
cut
up
growing
to
and
little
irrigate
food
ancestral
whose
that
the
idle
land
generations.
future
for
contrasted,
argumentatively
are
S.
Charvets,
aristocratic
to
viewpoints
Chateau.
A., remaining in
life, a little
inject
attempts
of
section
tradition-bound
Burgundy.
a
A.
to
purposes
the
After
September.
Improvements.
France.
Burgundy,
war,
Charvet's
II.
His
"pep," into
opposed by the
acres
The
"
in
Outside
Drawing-room
"
The
of the
the
after
France
Made
Place
1919.
I.
II.
Act
III.
"
Has
Duke
Patton
teau.
Cha-
Goldwyn
April.
Smith
Milfinan
Harriett
Brown
Nellie
Bonain
Pierre
SYNOPSIS:
June.
George
Arey
Dupont
Kingdon
Durand
Madeleine
William
Bain
Bonain
Remontier
M.
Yurka
Lewis
L'Estrange
Ringueau
Marie
Leo
until
in
_
the
end
Smith
Captain
Charvets;
at
the
is
there
marries
wins
Americans
France
can
dowerless
the
practical compromise.
proud daughter of the
has
met
from
away
he
planned
should
learn
acquire
from
and
who
nurse,
him
can
but
of sentimental
sort
American
an
front,
from
the
the
marry,
the
the
aristocratic
Charvet
young
all agree
and
Americans
French.
and
son
woman
that
much
there
the
BEST
THE
364
PLAYS
OF
"SCRAMBLED
1920-1921
WIVES"
in three
acts
Matthews
and
comedy
by Adelaide
Klauber
the
at
produced
by
Adolph
Stanley,
Theater, New
York, August 5, 1920.
CAST
Beatrice
Van
Marie
Arsdale
Margaret
Chiverick
II.
Living
Room
Home
deeply
so
of
in the
divorced
Act
I.
Room
Albion
the
divorced
with
Larry
and
wife
her
current
which
of
McLeod,
when
Therefore,
husband
she
John
is
who
Lucille
Chiverick, is ever
terribly suspicious
discovers
lover
both
are
who
pretend
party
to
guests
to
has
ill and
be
go
to
bed,
until
she
can
however,
the
at
accepted
second
say
slip quietly
her
that
innocently
husband's
nothing of her divorced
is terribly jealous, there
is nothing
for
her
same
invitation,
to
"
in love
house
Anders
Bamicoat
Betty
Juliette Day
(Late Afternoon)
The
"
Smith,
divorcees.
Young
Glenn
Living Room
Act
III.
The
(After Dinner).
of the
(Midnight
Same
The
Day).
Halseys'
Thousand
Islands.
Klauber.
Staged
by Adolph
:
Lucille's
"
Roland
Louis
Bessie
Carlton
Lucile
Smith
SYNOPSIS
Lennox
Hutchins
Elise Bartlett
Halsey
Chiverick
John
McLeod
Larry
Benjamin
Halsey
Lucille
Lounsbery
William
Connie
Act
Chambers
James
Martin
Margaret
M.
Fulton
CHARACTERS
OF
Harlow
Dicky
Martha
do
to
make
it
insists
an
wife,
but
to
possible
being
on
Everybody,
At
time
she
has
visiting her boudoir.
one
her
first husband
behind
of portieres and
her prospective
set
one
husband
with
the
behind
Chiverick
another,
jealous Mrs.
and
for Town
Talk
snooping around
a
reporter
trying to ferret
All
out
and
is
a
eventually explained
forgiven.
story.
to
nice
Lucille
to
away.
by
"LADIES
NIGHT"
farcial
in three
acts
comedy
by Avery Hopwood
A.
H.
Woods
the
Andrews,
at
produced
by
Theater, New
York, August 9, 1920.
CAST
OF
Dulcy
Jimmy
Adele
Stanhope
Walters
Walters
Vincent
Claiborne
John
Charlton
Eltinge
CHARACTERS
Suion
Bob
and
Rolland
Dennie
Foster
Cumberland
PLAYS
PRODUCED
Alicia
Bonner
Fred
Bonner
Mimi
Cort
Craymer
Mrs.
Shultz
Mrs.
Green
IN
YORK
NEW
Allyn King
Ruggles
Gosnell
Evelyn
Charles
Tarlton
Mrs.
Edward
Stuart
Tillie
Miss
Murphy
Rhoda
Begova
Lollie
Policewoman
A
Barnes
Judith
Dawn
VosselU
Nellie
Fijmore
Eda
P.
M.
Midnight.
Staged by
Jimmy
Act
I. "Jimmy
Act
II.
The
Act
III.
Same
Bertram
Harrison.
reaction
danger
friends
Walters'
Larchmont
"
as
"
Walters
of
Ralph
Fred
SYNOPSIS:
his
Helen
Julia
Babette
Robson
Eleanor
Fireman
"
Douglas
Pearl
Jardinere
Grace
Kaber
Josie
365
is
bashful
decide
should
certain
he
of
recluse.
becoming
ball
I.
Ann
Time
Apartment.
Baths.
Time
"
Time
bare
A.
1.15
Because
man.
sight
the
to
Act
Sutton
Luke
of
"
M.
his
tunate
unfor-
shoulders
Also
be
cured.
he
will
is
Jimmy
Therefore
a
prude.
take
him
to
They
in
fancy-dress
see
so
ball
and
is raided
again be frightened by a little. The
in
dressed
the
as
escaping, Jimmy,
lady, climbs
a
through
of
Turkish-bath
door.
window
parlor next
Fearing arrest,
a
brisk
time
of it avoiding
the
he
has
attendants, and
later,
a
it
is
little
difficult
for
him
to
a
explain to his
being discovered,
wife
that
he
did
not
deliberately plan the masquerade.
where
much
flesh
he
will
never
TIMES"
"GOOD
music
Bumside,
by Raymond
the
at
Charles
Dillingham
by
Hubbell,
produced
New
York, August
Theater,
9,
Hippodrome
musical
spectacle by
R.
H.
1920.
PRINCIPALS
Flack
Nanette
Mannefords
Belle
Storey
Lambert
"Happy"
Authur
Geary
Joe Jackson
Perry Corwey
Mile.
Emma,
Elsie
The
Louise,
Parsons
MacClellan
Joseph
Robert
Smythe
Coyle
Daisy
Elizabeth
Natalie
Rose
ENGAGED
Bertha
and
Virginia
The
Futrelle
Pender
Troupe
Sisters
Berlo
GIRL
"THE
A
Wilson
by
in
three
at
New
York,
CAST
the
Punch
CoUison, produced
Theater,
Judy
and
August
OF
LIPS"
Wilson
by
acts
Collison
1920-1921
;CARMINE
THE
WITH
comedy
farcial
OP
PLAYS
BEST
THE
366
9,
1920.
CHARACTERS
The
Lorrington
Mrs.
Girl
with
Carmine
the
Hammerton
Cleaner
Arden-Hammerton
vescent-Arden
Mrs.
Stuy
John
Baird
Lawyer
SYNOPSIS:
rin^on.
Living
The
Prologue
Wednesday
Morning,
in
Later.
October
Hammerton's
Peter
13.
III.
Act
Later.
"
Staged
II.
Act
Same
in
three
by
of
ii.
Act
York,
CAST
August
Mr.
See
drama
duced
pro-
Garrick
CHARACTERS
OF
Norman
Preston
Trevor
Meredith
Jane
Garvin
Sheila
Michelette
Mme.
Doctor
Smith
Moto
Muir
Hayes
Baroni
Francis
M.
Verdi
Minnie
Milne
William
Hallman
Lisa
Locale
Delia
of
Fitzgerald's
Robia
the
Gilda
Three
Acts
Is
Staged
Apartment.
the
by
Living
Brock
Varesi
Room
of
Pemberton.
98.
page
"SPANISH
A
Few
Twenty
16, 1920.
Chalmers
The
Friday
A
George
Archimede
Madame
LorThe
Dolly Byrne,
Theater,
and
the
at
Fitzgerald
The
Miss
"
Apartment.
Tamamoto
Aline
Bice
I.
"
Fitzgerald
Flora
Brice
Mrs.
Office
Varesi
Pemberton
New
John
BarriSon
MADAME"
by Gilda
acts
by Brock
Gerald
Mrs.
Menken
Blancke
Same.
The
the Prologue.
as
Morrison.
Priestly
"ENTER
comedy
Law
"
October
Minutes
Grace
Kate
Philip
Room
Seconds
Edward
Welford
Leach
Culver
Mommg,
Clarke
Dallas
Mathews
Dry
Janet
Cooper
Olive
Wilfred
Potts
Peter
Lips
Leslie
Edna
Daisy
in three
Roberts
at
acts
with
Rinehart,
the
Maxine
LOVE"
music
produced
ElUott
August
CAST
Roque
Alvarez
Andres
OF
and
by Avery Hopwood
Mary
"
by Wagenhals
Kemper
New
Theater,
York,
17,
1920.
CHARACTERS
Wallace
Manolo
Hickman
Thestino
Paul
Huber
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
NEW
Tonete
YORK
Victor
Pepuso
Hammond
Ben
Richard
Romero
Anton
Maria
Hendricks
Morrise
Frank
Russ
DonFulgencio
Del
Carmen
Bishop
Gus
C.
Weinburg
Henry
Stephenson
William
Pencho
H.
Powell
Rennie
Ofelia
Calvo
James
Singer
Singer.
Jasper
SYNOPSIS:
Huerta
"
Bright
Kenyon
Javier
Ascarra
lone
Migalo
Domingo
Peters
Whytal
Maria
Puensantica
Concepcion
367
Act
of
Murcia
I.
Corner
"
While
"
the
Near
Sun
the
Is in the
House
as
Mangione
Church
East.
in the
Act
II.
the
Shadows
and
House
The
Courtyard
of Domingo's
Act
III.
Lengthen.
A Room
in Domingo's
It Is Night.
The
Time
Sunday.
"
"
"
"
Javier
they
Pencho,
and
love
both
two
Maria
Javier is wounded
stay long away,
del
and
intense
Carmen,
Pencho
Spain, finding
her.
right to woo
for
of
men
young
his
the
He
country.
love
and
not'
back
"
ME"
"TICKLE
A
him
does
he
however,
the
He
is about
to
to
defy both
populace and the law.
comes,
Maria
be
arrested
and
to
him,
save
prosecuted
when,
agrees
father
is very
in the
influential
to
munity.
comJavier, whose
marry
the wedding
shall never
take
Pencho,
however,
swears
because
hot
and
it never
overdoes,
Javier,
being an
place
dies.
Before
he
dies
there
is
an
understanding
youth,
strong
all is forgiven.
the
rivals and
between
"
calls
musical
in two
comedy
Hammerstein
Oscar
2d^
and
and
Prank
merstein
Hamby Arthur
Stothart, produced
the
at
Theater,
Selwyn
New
York, August
17, 1920.
Herbert
CAST
OF
CHARACTERS
Louise
Fairbanks
Mary
Jack
Marcel
Alice
Zender
Inspector
Benjamin
Mulvey
Boatman
William
Dance
Specialties
Olga
Prances
Grant
and
Dorriani
and
Mishka
Ted
Marcel
Tongra
of the
Rousseau
Harry
Blah
Second
House
Wing
Hiesler
Jack
Slave
Keeper
Tinney
Marguerite
West
Blah
Casmore
Frank
Tinney
Customs
Native
A
Allen
Keams
Allen
Vic
Barton
Poisson
Frank
A
The
acts, book
-.Tex
Pearce
Cooper
THE
368
SYNOPSIS:
Picture
OF
PLAYS
BEST
I.
Act
Corp..
Calcutta,
Scene
"
Cal.
Hollywood,
"
1920-1921
Studio
Scene
of
2
Poisson
Customs
"
of
India.
Scene
Garden
Paradise.
3
mony
CereScene
The
Veil of Mystery.
Scene
s
4
Sacred
II.
Scene
The
Bower
of the
Bath.
Act
i
of Temptation.
Scene
Scene
Customs
Anywhere.
2
3
Me.
House
Calcutta.
at
Scene
Aboard
S.
S.
Tickle
4
House,
"
Thibet.
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
Prank
with
actor
a
Tinney,
comedian,
having a job as an
the
in California, accompanies
moving-picture
troupe
company
he
the
and
to
Tibet, where
camera
plays several
parts before
several
is being
before
the
the
more
footUghts while
scenery
changed
backstage.
"THE
comedy
A.
H.
LADY
drama
by
Earl
Woods
in
association
Republic
Carroll
Li
Fu
T'ien
III.
Scene
Carroll
"
produced
Frederick
Eileen
Act
I.
Scene
City.
of
the
"
Study
"
Scene
His
Gaul
"
of
In
of Li Fu
the
the
Arthur
Wilson
of Li Pu
Study
Yang,
I
Room.
Scene
Smoking
3
"
"
Chengtu,
Emperor,
Terrace
Scene
"
by
the
at
17, 1920.
George
Tao
the Garden
the
Third
Act
acts,
Earl
Robinson
Newbold
Brandon
Hurst
Herbert
Henry
Edwin
Maxwell
Chung
SYNOPSIS:
York
New
In
On
three
CHARACTERS
OP
Yang
Sang
Tzu
LAMP"
York, August
White
Barrett
Stanley
John
Lao
Sim
in
with
New
Theater,
CAST
Arthur
THE
OP
China.
Wonderful
Garden
of
Act
Yen
the
II.
"
"
Pagoda.
Emperor.
Yang.
Arthur
dinner
to
at
the
home
of his friend,
White, invited
named
Li
Fu
in
New
a
philosopher
Yang
living
York,
arrives
early for an inspection of the art treasures
belonging to
his host.
During his inspection he begs the privilege of smoking
of
Li Fu
a
pipe
just for the experience.
opium
Yang
agrees,
the pipe is lighted and
Arthur
floats away
to dreamland
v/ith the
Chinese
who
lived
hundreds
of
story of a mighty
emperor
and
his
love
for
beautiful
a
princess
running through
years
ago
Chinese
"
his
brain.
fights
In
defend
to
Manchus.
in
one
happily
his
the
When
of
the
dream
he
lady
consummated.
he
sees
himself
as
the
emperor
and
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
"THE
An
CAVE
NEW
YORK
369
GIRL"
American
in three
comedy
acts
by George Middleton
Bolton,
F.
Comstock
and
produced
by
Ray
Gest
Morris
at the
Longacre Theater, August
Guy
18,
CAST
OP
1920.
CHARACTERS
Rogers
Arthur
Brandon
Baptiste
J. T.
Rufus
Bates
Case
Diwy
Bates
Margot
Mr.
Mark
Keys
Act
in
Northern
Miles
Time
Some
III.
"
The
I.
Maine.
"
Caribou
Late
Distant.
Same.
Present.
"
Valentino
Stewart
Hanna
FranMyn
SYNOPSIS:
Act
Grace
Grant
Sperry
Orlando
Camp
Camp
Cope
Smith
Martha
Mayo
Madeleine
Marshall
Saxon
Kling
Merrill
Prof.
Barry
Peters
John
Paterson
Case
Georgina
Elsie
and
Four
Staged
by
The
Weeks
An
Lodge.
Act
August.
Following
Later.
Marion.
George
Isolated
II.
"
Morning.
Afternoon.
to
J. T. Bates, captain of industry and used
getting his own
the
in
Canadian
wilds
with
the
a
organizes
camping
trip
way,
diffident
and
the
object of throwing together his somewhat
son
T.
he
has
decided
his
should
Bates)
woman
son
(J.
young
marry
in the woods
their
follow
But
that
naturally.
engagement
may
"cave
of a nature-faking
the
meets
girl," the daughter
son
a
from
rather
than
be
torn
her, sets
college professor, and,
away
and
The
fire spreads
the
Bates
fire to the
to
canoes.
camp
is
live
Hke
month
the
forced
and
for
to
a
provisions,
party
convinces
the Bates
"wild
boy that the cave
girl
things, which
for him.
is the only one
"
CHECKERBOARD"
"THE
in
comedy
three
by F. Ray
ninth
Street
acts
Comstock
CAST
Kellogg
Susanne
Taylor
Mrs.
Taylor
Taylor
Joseph
Edward
Taylor
T.
Emery
Jeremiah
Olga
Frederick
and
New
Theater,
Portermain
Townsend
by
OF
and
Morris
York,
Fanny
Gest
Hatton, produced
Thirty-
the
at
August
19,.
1920.
CHARACTERS
William
Eville
Booth
Sydney
Miriam
Sears
Mayhew
Kate
WiUiam
Williams
Raffael
Jack
Norval
Keedwell
Zola
Talma
BEST
THE
370
OF
PLAYS
1920-1921
Macdonald
Donald
Boris
Smoller
Dorothy
Jose Ruben
Mackenzie
Jack
Tanya
Masimoff
Peodor
Norton
Herbert
Dora
Von
Buelow
Dorothy
Tiemey
Eda
Wadsworth
Wadsworth
Mrs.
Frankel
Leo
Machurin
Alexei
Vladimir
Myers
.Henry
'.
.
SYNOPSIS:
Act
The
Afternoon.
House
Room
Act
of
III.
to
averse
the
The
"
Staged
York.
Clifford
by
from
to
as
pose
the
that
wealth,
Russian
will
of his
part
Later.
A Week
Brooke.
Russian
of the
conspiracy
millionaire
crafty American,
in New
Salon
member
Valley,
The
Big
the
in
"
Present.
reasonable
any
American
House
Act
II.
Twilight.
Card
A
Few
Later.
Days
Evening.
The
Same
House.
Later.
Evening.
Machurin's
"
Little
The
"
Path.
Hill.
Little
Masimoff,
Peodor
an
the
on
Time
I.
agrees,
and
noble
accept
with
an
invitation
as
at
home
of the
"IMMODEST
An
American
in three
comedy
William
A.
VIOLET"
Brady
the
at
August
CAST
Violet
Mrs.
1920.
30,
OP
CHARACTERS
Rose
Marie
Rose
Amantha
Jeremiah
HezekiaJi
,
Lester
Ezekial
Rose
Mrs.
Hobhouse
Agatha
Arthur
Bodkin
house's,
August,
Violet
$10
to
pay
is
Denison.
River.
her
Act
radical
as
Allan
Kelly
Richard
Collins
Edward
Watton
Thomas
Jury
George
Eda
Act
I.
Bodkin's
"
Texas.
III.
Staged
1919.
way
Cromwell
John
Swank
Sheriff of Grayson
County
of the
Federal
Court
Judge
A
Messenger
Boy
Red
Marie
Haynes
MacKenna
Kenneth
Tackaberry
Foreman
of the
Ella
Fiegel
SYNOPSIS:
young
a
"
by
Goff
Florence
Gerald
Frank
J. Wood
Louis
Frohoff
Clarence
Rockefeller
Rousseau
Voorheis
W.
Pemberton
Henry
Rose
Jeremiah
"Young"
Mr.
Mr.
Carb, produced
by
Street
Theater,
by David
Forty-eighth
acts
II.
Act
Federal
John
Room
Oklahoma
Court
Room.
Cromwell.
"
living
woman
delegate
at
to the
state
in
Larsen
Fredericks
Heinemann
Mrs.
HobSide
of
Time
Texas.
the
"
Needing
suffrage convention.
PLAYS
and
it of
PRODUCED
fact
that
she
calls
IN
YORK
by Jier relatives,she
man
boarding with
money
young
the
at
NEW
man's
young
seeks
her
after
room
371
borrow
to
The
aunt.
the
household
is
than
They
pursued
are
trial for
stand
to
the
listen
and
judge
decide
man
to
them
by
the
she
and
outraged
technical
jury dismiss
drama
in three
Morosco
Cornelia
Miss
Dale
Dr. Wells
Anderson
Richard
OF
Van
Gorder
Fleming
SYNOPSIS:
Act
Van
a
Colorado
things
Gorder,
New
About
this
missing
the
is aroused
money,
good
people
are
accused
to
of
clear
up
has
maiden
around
the
after
being
chamber
secret
sneak
to
taking it;
the
that
the
mystery
many
is
Vaughan
Hunter
Van
Gorder's
III.
The
"
under
"
detective
a
the
refuses
get it.
finally cleared.
move.
by
friend
Four
Miss
picion
sus-
the
is awaiting
different
Gordor
Van
supposed
and
"Bat,"
are
and
is
cashier, wrongfully
bank
engaged
leads
to
of money
large sum
the
Immediately
dead, he has stolen
and
the
doctor
false
she
in his house,
back
money
a
mystery;
and
Robert
Staged
but
house,
bank.
Barrows
the
Vokes
EUsler
Morvil
who
banker's
chance
shivery rappings
before
May
Kemper.
dead
it in
at
1920.
Effie
Act
Play
of the
who
Kemper
23,
Richard
Kenneth
in Miss
Same.
The
it is discovered
time
hidden
The
"
before.
months
from
II.
banker
happening
are
Living Room
House.
York
some
"
Act
Same
the
of Collin
of
Direction
of
I.
Home.
Island-
and
Stuart
Sage
Anne
Morrison
Edward
Ellis
Harrison
Hunter
Ogden
Beresford.
Unknown
Man
Cornelia
young
CHARACTERS
Reginald
home
her
Rinehart
Harry
Garret
Act, but
and
BAT"
Brooks
Long
away.
forced
and
Mann
the
Violet
Billy
An
run
acts
CAST
Lizzie
Miss
of
and
case
by Mary Roberts
"
produced
by Wagenhals
Theater, New
York, August
Hopwood,
the
family,
man
arrested
get married.
to
mystery
Avery
young
violation
the
"THE
A
the
notorious
federate
con-
thief
mysterioiis murders,
for the
audience
to
follow
PLAYS
BEST
THE
3 72
' '
in
comedy
at
three
1920-1921
' '
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
Ian
by
acts
New
Theater,
Booth
the
OF
CAST
Hay, produced
by
August
York,
Lucius
Mrs.
Tilly
Amelia
Percy
Marine
Milroy
Mr.
Mehta
Mr.
Mr.
Jno.
Muriel
Martin
Frank
in
Hector
Alice
Lsden
O'Brien
Gypsy
J. H. Brewer
Cecil
Chas.
Stillbottle
White
Saturday
as
Staged
her
The
"
W.
II.
by
Bartholomew
P. Heggie
Beauchamp
Russell
Square,
II.
Act
"
Afternoon.
Monday
Time
Tuesday
Morning.
Act
"
III.
The
Gilmore.
H.
W.
Shotley
V.
designer
Towers.
Afternoon.
London,
Act
Cameron
O.
I.
Act
Tilly Welwyn,
attractive
Harvey
Daly
Lawrence
(England).
Bloomsbury,
Present.
Hodson
Blythe
Pumpherston
Same
Yorke
Nellie
Ram
Samuel
SYNOPSIS:
"
Macdonald
Oswald
Grandma
Banks
Miss
Constance
Darner
The
Adrian
Rev.
Rylands
Mr.
Baxter
Barry
Mainwaring
Welwyn
Welwyn
Welwyn
Welwyn
Welwyn
Sylvia
Giimey
Edmund
Mrs.
Mainwaring
Mainwaring
Richard
1930.
24,
Giddens
George
Marian
Lady
Woods
CHARACTERS
OF
Mainwaring
Abel
H.
A.
of
middle-class
dresses
in
and
London,
very
with
acquainted
bus.
Richard,
tuppenny
becomes
way,
Richard
the
Mainwaring
on
top of a
the
insists
that
his
being smitten,
Tilly shall know
people
and
of
the
Mainwarings
Towers,
Shotley and
Beauchamp
invites
finds
her
home
for a week
end.
the
Tilly
Mainwarings
end
no
swell, but, believing they are dealing largely in "swank,"
them
for a
determines
swell as they.
So she invites
to be just as
in
visit to her and
her family
Russell
return
Square, Bloomsbury.
The
is a bailiff in the
it happens
there
day they arrive
house,
he
collect
small
bill
from
to
come
a
(the
Tilly's father, but
He
he
is
butler.
to
makes
bailiff) kindly
a
pretend
agrees
rather
and
the
of butUng,
warings
Maina
though
comic, mess
sorry,
But
Richard
refuses
take
to
are
quite upset.
young
their
class
and
when
he
insist
shall
prejudices seriously,
they
off the
returns
to
give Tilly up,
promptly
Bloomsbury,
pays
the
in
the
bailiff and
best
house.
rents
room
Welwyn's
"
"
"PADDY
A
drama
comedy
Ord, produced
THE
in
four
Jack
Adair
G'Hara
acts
by
Theater,
Robert
CAST
General
NEXT
OF
BEST
THING"
by Gayer
Mackay
the
at
Courtneidge
August 27, 1920.
and
Shubert
CHARACTERS
.Walter
Hugh
Edwin
Huntley
Robert
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
NEW
Mi'^'^A.W
Miss
Miss
YORK
Charles
Julia
O
Hara
Paddy
Adair
Laurence
Blake
Gwendoline
Carew
Dr- .Davy Adair
Cyril Scott
Vera
Finlay
Charles
B.
Wells
C.
Bernard
Moore
Kitty O'Connor
Mureen
Maguire
fiellaby
Doreen
Blake
Webb
,
Mrs.
Mrs.
Ticket
Bmgle
Emily
Putter
Alice
Taker
SYNOPSIS:
Act
Dr.
II.
Scene
I.
Same
Dispensary.
The
"
Evening.
(The
(Shepherd's
"
"BLUE
A
in
comedy
Lee
and
Ghan
House.
three
J. J.
by
acts
Shubert
George
the
at
CAST
OF
28,
Courtneidge.
Ernest
Mona
.Edgar
;.
.Maria
.
Truex
Thomas
Nelson
Ziccardi
', .Helen
Robert
Jenkins
Stegall
Mack
Lowell
Harrison
Richard
Gilstrap
Cooksey
"
SYNOPSIS:
Week
Act
Later.
I.
Early
"
by
York,
CHARACTERS
Jim
produced
New
1920.
Mrs.
"
"
"
Theater,
Judge
Terry
III.
Act
IV.
N.
W.
Ry.
Scarborough,
Princess
Burleson
Billy
Hope
Hillyer
Jep
Clayton
Sallie
Act
BONNET"
August
Cuca
Miss
Souther
Morning.
Ball.)
Bush.)
A
First-class
the
L.
Carriage on
The
Ghan
House.
Staged by Robert
"
B.
.
Davy's
Scene
Lorraine
CliSe
Belmore
J.
Act
The
"
Stuart
Isabel
West
Eileen
Huban
Eunice
Elliott
Eileen
Lord
McCarthy
Kara
Mary
373
Early
Mattie
Neil
Morning.
Evening.
Act
III.
Act
"
Two
Taber
Keene
Burton
IL
"
Hours
Later.
The
the
entire
The
time
was
on
is the
patrol
Billy Burleson,
Professor
action
Hillyer ranch
of the
house
summer
duty
living
play
in the
occurs
Rio
working on
daughter, Hope,
aud
the
Hillyer
ranch
with
is faced
with
Hillyer and his
a problem
when
the professor dies.
Either
he must
abandon
Hope in her
hour
the ranch
and
let the gossips talk.'
of need, or stay on, run
He
neither
of
them
is of age
but
might marry
her,
and,
would
to
she
want
him.
besides, he isn't sure
Billy
marry
decides
and
to run
the ranch
help Hope, and as a result involves
those
who
himself
in a series
of fights with
speak slightingly
misuiiderstand
those
of his high-minded
motives.
who
is
Among
stationed
the
border.
American
soldier,
on
Mack,
a young
Terry
"
THE
374
Billy
and
Terry
whip
can
from
After
for
other.
"THE
GREENWICH
in two
revue
Murray
set-tos
dialogue by
acts,
Sloane,
and
Arthxir
who
is
Inc.
30,
Harriet
Davies
Margaret
Stone
Janet
Wee
Pee
Meyers
Green
Severn
Hanford
Hap
BankoflE
in
comedy
William
by
CAST
Gilbert
BAD
three
Phebe
MAN"
Emerson
by Porter
Brown,
the
at
Harris, Jr.,
Comedy
Theater,
August
30,
1920.
OF
acts
CHARACTERS
Jones
Henry
Frank
Smith
Pell
Pell
Morgan
Lucia
Fred
Giddings
Hardy
Angela Hardy.
Pancho
Lopez
John
Wilson
Edna
Alyarado
Cook
Bradley
Blake
Act
James
III.
LonQrgan.
page
269.
Act
Border.
"
Harrington
Reynolds
Indian
Joe
Frank
Bixby
Charles
Gibney
'"
SYNOPSIS:
the Mexican
Tiden
Carson
Hibbard
Holbrook
Blinn
Herbert
Heywood
H.
Bell
James
Chief
White
Hawk
Pedro
Venustiano
Mexican
Devine
L.
Frances
Red
Felip
Conroy
A.
James
Jasper
Gimbel
Hadley
Mile.
"THE
satirical
the
Howard
Marsh
Bert
Savoy
Jay Brennan
Clemons
James
produced
at
ENGAGED
Brady
Ivaa
1920"
1920.
Agnes
Ford
love
lyrics by John
win
by A. Bald-
Crumit
Margaret
and
get the
true
OP
J. Gray,
music
Swanstrom,
Bohemians
produced
by The
Village Theater, August
to
their
FOLLIES
neither
forces
trying
discover
Frank
Doris
as
combine
to
Thomas
PRINCIPALS
See
but
Hope,
over
VILLAGE
Anderson
Greenwich
1920-1921
other
ranch.
each
several
have
OF
the
her
save
PLAYS
BEST
The
I. "Ranch
Noon.
Same.
House
Act
II.
Evening.
B.
of
"
Gilbert
The
Same.
Staged
by
Lenhart
Jones
on
Dusk.
Lester
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
"CALL
A
in
comedy
three
THE
the
at
Empire
August 31,
CAST
Howard
1920.
CHARACTERS
William
Thomas
Mowbray
Tom
Barbara
Lane
Martin
Rea
Act
Act
Conn.
mount,
Later.
Act
III.
I.
II.
At
"
The
"
At
"
Joan's
Following
Week.
Belasco.
David
Mowbrays,
The
Houston
Wise
Milton
Jane
SYNOPSIS:
by
Walker
MarinofiE
Mrs.
Nellie
the
Beechep
Fania
Thomas
Harriet
Amory
Charlotte
Balog-Mari
Alice
Spencer
Isabel
Morris
John
Janet
Deering
Catherine
Merivale
Philip
Mowbray
Judge
Joan
OF
375
Archibald, produced
by David
Theater, New
York,
Townsend
Dudley
YORK
DOCTOR"
by Jean
acts
Belasco
NEW
Time
Home,
Mowbrajrs'
the
Few
Mowbrays',
a
The
"
Catherine
New
Apartment,
Near
West-
Days
City,
Staged
York
Future.
find
themselves
Howard,
bom
mentalist,
sentiby a
Catherine,
a
is convinced
Howard
her.
no
longer loves
Tiring
of a ten-year
his
he
has
to
honeymoon,
forget
wedding
be^un
anniversaries, and accepts his wife's kiss of greeting as a settled
in place of a daily thrill.
Mrs.
knows
custom
Mowbray
thing
somebe done.
advertisement
the
of a
must
Happening
upon
"Doctor
of Domestic
Difficulties," she calls the doctor, who
with
be an
to
turns
out
exceptionally attractive
woman
young
confronted
better
familiar
than
Mowbray
to
go
subtly
to
apply
for
husband
is
loose"
parties,
gay
fallen
give
at
friend
music
of
practice and
the play's end.
it would
be
Mowbrays,
confine
herself
acts, book
and
the
the
doctor
and
her
to
SHOP"
CAST
Freddie
were
neglectful
herself
an
tractive
at-
destined
seems
domestic
own
"
and
Gideon
and
if she
Townsend,
Dudley
with
clothes,
home
well
as
Meanwhile
the
fancy
from
away
Mrs.
lyrics by Anne
Caldwell,
Felix, produced by Edgar J. MacGregor and
Moore
Knickerbocker
the
at
Patch
Theater,
New
York, August
1920.
31,
in three
comedy
by Hugo
William
advises
lot of
works
scheme
SWEETHEART
"THE
musical
The
her
up
problems
buy
long trip
brought to terms.
desperately in love
bachelor
to
perhaps
divorce.
take
doctor
herself
to
"
to
that
suggest
to
has
"cut
The
sense.
common
average
to
to
and
situation.
Blount
OF
CHARACTERS
Roy
Daniel
Gordon
Healy
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
376
1920-1921
Fleming
Una
Peggy
Julian
Blount
Mildred
Peter
Potter
Harper
Morton
Howard
Esther
Ford
Helen
Russell
Zella
Butts
Minerva
Natalie
Lertora
Joseph
Maiy
K.
Harry
Lorimer
Blythe
Daphne
Mr.
Hylo
Hill
Clay
Irving
Irma
Grace
Hudson
Teddy
Teddy
lona
Dorothy
Mary
Marie
Charlotte
Amaranth
Clarinda
Arrol
Jane
O'Brien
Mary
Derst
Ralph
Thomas
Malaney
Timandra
Tom
Jerry
Harry
Jack
Alfred
Clay
Bill
Act
SYNOPSIS:
A
"
Sweetheart
Studio,
I. "The
Act
II.
Avenue
Fifth
Afternoon.
Lorimer's
"
Auction
Room.
Opler
Hill
Scheidel
Strahlman
Jack
William
Pete
III.
Irving
Brady
Taylor
Late
Shop.
Evening.
Staged
by
Act
Edgar
MacGregor.
"LITTLE
musical
S.
comedy
Henry
R.
Herndon
in
two
CAST
OF
2,
alias
Foster,
J. Robert
alias Rev.
Clay,
Shirley
"Fingers"
York,
Lucille
Williams
CHARACTERS
Fulton
Frederick
Graham
Amy
Angel
New
Dr.
Raymond,
Jr.
Vincent
Henry
Frank
Moiilan
Majorie
Juanita
Gateson
Fletcher
Clayton
Butterfield
Edna
Miss
Wheeler
Woodruff
Porter
Mortimer
Gayling
Act
Jere
Lillian
II.
(Three
Later.)
by
Angel
inclined,
"ad"
Act
Scene
Days
Alfred
I. "Scene
Country
"
Later.)
2
The
"
Hickman
Butterfield,
advertises
Offices
Scene
"
and
heiress
for
Same.
C. A.
to
manager
the
hands
falling into
and
Clay,
'Amy
Shirley, a trio
Miss
and
Butterfield
disappear
The
Exterior
i"
Scene
Home.
Scene
Shaw
Wells
Bernard
Billikins
SYNOPSIS:
Butterfield's
by
G.
1920.
Rpsalie
"Dickey"
Richard
by
Theater,
September
music
Clark,
Savin, produced
Belmont
the
Edward
by
acts
M.
and
at
CHARITY"
MISS
the
of
a
"
of
Interior
Butterfield
"
McAuliffe
White
of
Angel
Same
Society.
The
Same.
(Two
Days
Days
(Two
Later.)
Staged
Lima.
de
millions
to
of
of
with
and
her
help
"Dicky"
crooks,
the
philanthropically
spend
her
money.
Foster, "Fingers"
they plan to fleece
It happens,
money.
PLAYS
Angel,
take
to
town
determine
IN
they become
that
however,
model
PRODUCED
to
interested
so
of the
care
with
through
acquires the
go
"Dickey"
old
poor
the
YORK
NEW
377
in their scheme
to
strikers
that
rent
philanthropy.
honestly.
build
they
marrying
By
fortune
"HONEYDEW"
and
in
ZimbaKst,
by Efrem
lyrics by Joseph Herbert, produced
by Joe Weber
the Casino
Theater, September
6, 1920.
with
Play
music
acts, music
two
CAST
Hal
Porde
Park
Sam
Ash
Manatt
Fred
Chanser
Walter
Penelope
Morrison
Conover
Maxwell
FoUis
Dorothy
Ethelind
Terry
Hall
Marie
Conchita
Mile.
Hay
Theresa
Vanoni
Mrs.
Lenore
Muriel
Marguerite
Earle
Evelyn
Daisy
Sing t^
Miss
Japonica
Rosemary
Miss
Jonquil
Helen
Aldian
Adele
Hudson
Sanderson
Hill
Betty
Arthur
Wallace
Margaret
Violet
Beatrice
Miss
Dahlia
Azalea
Miss
Orchid
Margaret
Dorothy
Miss
Doris
Hollyhock
Miss
Miss
Betty
Gardenia
SYNOPSIS:
Pelham.
Home
at
I.
Act
II.
Act
Larchmont.
Staged
Same.
"
by
Francis
Studio
The
"
Scene
of
Henry
"
Afternoon,
Short.
Hassard
AND
"GENIUS
American
Benham
Year
THE
Leona
NeiU
Pursell
Mice
Columbine
Miss
Long
Powers
Dorothy
Nasturtium
Miss
Miss
An
John
Dunsmure
Kendall
Gill
Frank
John
Kuy
Pedro
Miss
at
CHARACTERS
OF
Henry
Honeydew
Adams
Sylvester
Howard
Taylor
Dick
Captain
Jack
Timothy
book
De
Grasse
Honeydew
Henry
Honeydew's
Scene
Later.
at
New
2
"
CROWD"
and
in three
acts
by John T. Mclntyre
comedy
the Cohan
at
by George M. Cohan
Hill, produced
New
York, September 6, 1920.
Theater,
CAST
Philippe
Robert
Harrison
Dickson
Parker
Trava
G.
Burr
Lloyd
OF
CHARACTERS
George
Renavent
Otto
.Frank
"
H.
"
CoopM"
Cliffe
Hollms
Frank
Frank
Ross
THE
378
PLAYS
BEST
1920-1921
OF
Salvatore
Venneto
Howard
Giovanni
Sataro
Max
Charlet
Baccigalupo
Luigi
Edouard
Apartment,
Gaspare's
He
excited
III.
o*Clock
Carnegie
He
is going
secretary.
Same
Night.
violinist, grows
of
tags
he
He
will
to the
away
It happens
and
Lovett
give
up
solitudes
that
the
his
he
crowd,
insistently.
have
be
can
matter
is
with
All
becomes
so
date
concert
ticularly
par-
of them.
none
Trava
rather
secretary
really is the
what
will
career
where
the
him
Finally
to
keep
refuses
he
of
weary
that
women
that
women
woman
Loraine
"
Hall.
yoimg
he is
the
crowd
about
Shaw
Music
Room
in
Trava's
Late
Afternoon.
Act
II.
the Next
Evening.
7 o'Clock
in
Trava's
Apartment.
M.
Cohan.
Staged
by Geo.
to
wants
Leroy
Cummings
Clay
Dorothy
L~The
Act
the Argentine.
Violin
About
Shop.
Room
Music
The
Trava,
he
women,
Adele
Marie
at
"
Lewis
Helen
Vanderslip
SYNOPSIS:
Oretta
Helen
Dorothy
Orden
Westerveldt
the
Manley
Romily
MacCausland
Adelaide
Starr
Dorothea
Quigley
Bellamy
Van
Philippe
Stewart
Kay
Jones
McDuff-Powell
Eleven
Beaumar
Katherine
Marian
Rita
Boyd-
Act
Mellish
Trelease
Constance
Loriola
Brooks-Vinton
Miss
Miss
Ottinger
Rubi
Puyster
LefEngs
Arlingham
Miss
Miss
Pecheur
Leonora
Vera
Fuller
Bessie
Miss
De
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Leach
Marie
Cleeve
Miss
Coakley
Viola
Madame
Serafina
Miss
Buck
Miss
Kramer
Brainard
Marion
Ness
Trava
Mrs.
Lanhara
Lanham
Rosamond
Mrs.
Bemers
Vera
Bartlett
Ralph
Gribert
Louise
Boulden
Froelich
Wright
Bama
Soloist
Tenor
Mira
Van
Madame
Mellish
Puller
Tagliani
Gasparo
than
alone
at
play.
with
his
attractive
very
Trava
is that
know
it.
His best
desperately in love with her and doesn't
automobile
smart
violinist's
the
salesman,
friend, a
senses
young
him
both
trouble, and
to
by arousing his jealousy induces
play
Hall
and
later to ask
the secretary to marry
at Carnegie
him.
"THE
A
play
in
three
acts
Theater,
WOMAN
by
New
CAST
BillyByrd
Tom
Maude
OF
Paul
Kester,
York,
OP
BRONZE"
produced
September
Randall
the
7, 1920.
CHARACTERS
Ralph
Randall
at
Gerald
Jane
Shirley
Gilbert
Gannon
Frazee
PLAYS
PRODUCED
Dorothy
Barker
Leonard
Hunt
IN
NEW
Mrs.
Douglas
Sylvia
Berliner
Marion
Halliday
Barney
William
Harriet
Kopiloff
Sterling
Mary
Griggs
Hunt
Ellen
Ten
Months
the
Act
An
"
of
Hunt
I.
"
Afternoon
New
Later.
in
Later.
The
of Leonard
Loggia
Outside
Powers
Anglin
Bruce
Langdon
Barfoot
Harry
Weidhaas
Ralph
J. R. Haywood
Mrs.
SYNOPSIS:
II.
Williams
Mather
Margaret
Morton
Reginald
Bonelli
Papa
George
Act
Connolly
Sally
Sidney
Eugene
Graham
James
Vivian
Fowler
Walter
Randall
Douglas
Vivian
Vera
Morton
Patrick
Mrs.
Graham
379
John
Courtney
Mary
Strelsky
in
YORK
Afternoon
in
May.
Action
Hunt's
Act
III.
of the
Play
Studio
in His
February.
A
"
Night.
Takes
Place
House,
Just
York.
realizes,after
of her
devoting the best ten years
is
and
Hunt,
husband, who
a
thing
somesculptor
of a genius, that
Leonard's
love
Also
for her is waning.
that
it is turning toward
Sylvia Morton,
a
girl visiting
young
the Hunts.
Because
the sculptor is at a crisis in his career,
in
which
he is competing
for a million-dollar
his
wife
mines
deterprize,
Even
when
not
to make
a
scene
by denouncing
Sylvia.
that the girlis to bear the sculptor a child she restrains
she learns
life to
Leonard
herself
her
does
and
later
commit
not
the
murder
that
is in
her
heart.
the
center
of his
group.
"A
MAN
in three
drama
Dixon
prize
at
the
CAST
OF
PEOPLE"
CHARACTERS
Little
Robert
McCahill
Angela
Nancy
Abraham
Lincoln
Lincoln
Mrs.
Colonel
Nicolay
Edwin
M.
Geo.
Stanton
B.
McCIellan
Captain
Vaughan
Winter
Betty
Thaddeus
Henry
THE
by Thomas
Bijou Theater, New
acts
Abe
Gen.
OP
Stevens
Raymond
Howard
Ellen
Claude
Hall
Mortimer
Cooper
H.
W.
J. Brady
Webster
Charles
Charles
Coghlan
Patricia
Moms
John
C.
Redfield
Hickey
Clarke
H.
John
PLAYS
BEST
THE
38o
OF
1920-1921
Gilmore
Sister
A
A
Congressman
A
A
Woman
National
Caryl
Gillin
Isabel
Hill
Gilbert
Charles
Norvelle
Lenore
Mother
McCahill
Angela
Howard
Operator
Telegraph
Committeeman
Claney
Maryland,
from
Fred
SYNOPSIS:
Prologue
His
at
Room
in
Same
as
Act
III.
and
the
"
II.
Epilogue
arotmd
the
the
of
the
from
the
Act
"
i.
"
The
"
Second
The
Strong
hood
Boy-
President's
II.
Act
1864.
23,
Same
to
Room
"
Aug.
the
Eight
in Washington,
Quarter
incident
confidence
visit
Knee.
House
C.
Lincoln's
"
Evening.
Same
I.
Act
as
Staged
Inauguration.
Dimcan.
Augustin
Builded
White
I. at
Act
a
President's
Act
by
retain
Mother's
the
of
Glimpse
"
of
the
Lincoln's
of Abraham
malcontents
his
in
committeemen
Republican
presidential race
following
to
failure
and
his
drawal
with-
renomination
in
suggest
his
to
party
own
1864.
"LITTLE
A
comedy
in
four
Sam
H.
Harris
OLD
Johnson Young,
produced
Plymouth
Theater, New
York,
8, 1920.
September
at
OF
Albert
Andrus
Susan
Given
Astor
Betty Schuyler
Rachel
Bully
Ariana
Michael
Waters
Donald
Brewster
De
Puyster
O'Day
O'Day
Meek
Margaret
Brewster
Boy
Charlton
Randall
John
Ward
John
Charles
Kennedy
Douglas
J. Wood
Daniel
O'Reilly
Cornelius
Vanderbilt
Btinny
Glendinning
Frank
Halleck
Brevort
Jacob
CHARACTERS
Ernest
Green
John
by
the
CAST
Henry
YORK"
Rida
by
acts
Delevan
Larry
Washington
Irving
Fitz
NEW
Nugent
Paul
Porter
Pauline
Whitson
Alf
T.
Genevieve
Patricia
Peter
Delmonico
Bill Hart
Wm.
Helton
Tobin
J. McClure
Frank
Horton
Fred
Fairbanks
Thos.
Houck
John
Hoey
Samuel
Bailey
I.
Delevan's.
Act
At
Act
IL
Larry
Delevau
Garden.
A Few
Months
Later.
Act
III.
Act
The
Fire
House.
The
Following
Night.
IV.
Back
the
Delevan's
to
the
The
Action
of
Following
Morning.
the Play
in New
York
1810.
Transpires
About
Staged
by
Sam
Forrest.
SYNOPSIS:
"
"
The
"
"
The
Michael
PLAYS
the
PRODUCED
IN
The
girl
if she
whom
she
rather
than
for
herself
New
York
and
accent
YORK
381
York.
boy, to New
until
she
learns
deception
enough
her
cousin, with
gets the
Larry Delavan,
money,
has
fallen
in love, will be cheated
of it.
out
Then,
with
the scheme,
she risks a jail sentence
go through
father
and
The
by confessing.
setting is in the
of 1810, when
John Jacob Astor
spoke with a German
Cornelius
Vanderbilt
ran
a
ferry.
carries
that
dressed
NEW
as
oflf the
well
"POLDEKIN"
A
in four
comedy
C. Tyler at the
CAST
OF
Carl
Maria
Elsie
E.
G.
Manart
Pinsky_
Nicolai
Endachieff
SYNOPSIS:
II.
the
Act
A
"
Same
Act
copy
in New
A
"
student
Hoch
Wilke
type
for
Room
Barwald
City.
Russian
York.
in the
III.
Act
"
Tenement.
Bolshevist, is brought by
to help them
spread the
Being a printer, he prepares
America
to
propaganda.
the
sets
in
Apartment
Yard
Back
Act
IV.
Russia
from
government's
and
II.
An
"
radical
mildly
I.
Tenement
as
of Reds
group
soviet
Kippen
H,
Wm.
Sergeant
Robinson
Arliss
George
Julia Dean
Toler
Sidney
Poldekin
Blanche
Welch
Poldekin,
Anthony
Mackay
Emil
Hubert
Krimoff
The
9, 1920.
CHARACTERS
Podoff
Act
by George
by Booth
Tarkington, produced
Park
Theater, New
York, September
acts
the
circulars.
In
America
kin
Polde-
with
the
opportunities of the
impressed
follow
he
refuses
to
that
enjoy
they
people
substitutes
from
extracts
would
Reds
lead, and
where
the
for the revolutionary
of Independence
ments
preachDeclaration
the
in
He
is
wounded
the
out.
send
would
fight
his friends
well
but
he
the
of
Bolshevists,
the
gets
taking
which
precedes
is
favorably
so
and
and
freedom
the
becomes
good
American.
STRANGER"
"WELCOME
A
comedy
by Aaron
Harris
at
the
in
Hoffman
Cohan
CAST
Bije
Clem
Frankel
Warner
Beemis
OF
acts, produced
Harris
and
September
David
four
13,
Theater,
New
by Sam
York,
1920.
CHARACTERS
-Adler
David
Adair,
John
Jr.
David
Higgms
H.
BEST
THE
382
PLAYS
OF
1920-1921
Ben
Tyler
Gideon
George
Valerie
Whitson
Grace
Ned
Tyler
Trimble
Mrs.
Esther
"
11.^the
In Act
"
I.
Act
Act^ II.
Eve.
Isidor
of the Grand
Hotel.
New
Lobby
Home.
Clem's
Five
Weeks
Later.
for a few
seconds
hghts will be lowered
half
Following
Solomon,
Science,
prosperity
Yankees
hiding
he
only
not
come
anti-Semitic
under
to
and
of
is
himself
almost
alias,they
his
on
he
has
heard
until
he
around
most
England
war
its
people.
that
among
Christian
Hke
New
what
stick
to
village
into
field in
flew
commercial
little by
manages
the
to
seeldng
drifts
business,
a
village that has declared
influenced
soul,
kindly
Being a
Christian
"
merchant,
in
himself
establish
The
Act
III.
Office.
of the Grand
Hotel.
Scenes
Are
Laid
in a
Town.
Jewish
Lobby
"
Year's
New
England
New
hour.
an
IV.
Eve.
social and
violent
J, Bennet
"
lapse of about
a
Act
May.
Following
The
Small
brought
Lennon
Percival
denote
The
Mower
Brandon
Jules
to
Martin
Mary
SYNOPSIS:
to
Herbert
Margaret
Sam
which
Hickerson
Isadora
Donegan
Year's
Note
Sidney
Frank
Clark
Solomon
Mary
Breeze
Edmund
Solomon
Isidor
Johnson
L. Snader
I. Schofield
Edward
Charles
Seth Trimble
Hooker
Eb
Whitson
Ichabod
the
apostate
an
effusive
grow
race.
of
has
The
most
Jew
in their
enthusiasm.
"ONE"
in
drama
David
three
Belasco
Edward
by
acts
the
at
September
CAST
Dr.
Noah
Knoblock,
Belasco
OF
14,
1920.
CHARACTERS
Fetch
Randle
Theodore
Beverley
Machael
Ja"ray
Bert
Mason
An
P.
Henry
Ayrton
Philip Desborough
Martin
Lewis
Theodore
Babcock
Itfb^^Ellll^Si
Mrs.
Mrs.
Katie
produced
York,
New
Theater,
Frances
Marie
Rowland
Delgado
R.
Clara
Daisy
Elevator
Girl
SYNOPSIS:
Sitting
Room,
November
York.
A Private
York
Time.
in New
to 5 P- M.
Scene
Lrondon.
i
New
"
Biirke
Sidney
Belmore
Lulu
Act
in a
Evening
Starr
Scene
i."
i~
House
Boarding
to
P.
M.
London
Sitting-room
Note
York.
The
"
of
P.
Three
Private
10
M.
London.
in
Time.
Small
A3T:ton
Private
Kensington.
Scene
Hotel,
in London
Days Elapse.
Sitting Room
"
A
New
P. M.
corresponds
Act
II.
in Kensing"
by
PLAYS
PRODUCED
Again.
ton
The
Time.
Act
III.
in Kensington.
Room
London
Sitting Room
Staged by David
that
distance
each
with
Ruby,
justice unless
York
been
to
convinced
in
reluctant
death
united
to
in
make
her
soul
The
M.
New
New
Sitting
II.
New
"
383
York.
M.
3 P.
P. M.
York.
10
York
Time.
Pearl
them.
pianist,
Whatever
her.
help
debut
When
the
herself
he
that
GUEST
OP
HONOR"
by
William
is
is
and
the
only by
half
souls
sacrifice
it
has
Pearl
loves
that
to
goes
who
man
two
great
realizes
puzzled youth
other.
do
Pearl, yet
to
their
can
the
the
to
young
really is Ruby
Realizing finally
makes
on
Ruby
it
sister
the
communicate
to
is unable
his afEections
her
or
share, according
who
they are
greatly dependent
concert
that
sisters
able
to
him.
body.
the
P.
New
"
Act
as
Scene
between
is
near
heart
herself
one
Again.
Lon(Jon.
Day
twin
transfers
her
accept
and
"
York.
are
each
is
of either
herself,
and
her
Same
them
Pearl
with
in love
Scene
Hotel
Elapse.
accomplished
an
YORK
Belasco.
separates
other,
Thus
New
The
Ruby
Delgado
theorists, one
and
certain
to
"
NEW
Time.
in the
Scene
Ten
Days
in New
Time.
The
Pearl
London
Sitting Room
Private
York
M.
P.
IN
be
by killing
he
had
produced
by
York,
Lee
Ruby
was
always loved.
"THE
A
in
comedy
three
Shubert
at
acts
Broadhurst
the
September
OP
CAST
20,
New
1920.
CHARACTERS
Graham
Weatherbee
Tack
Murray
Mrs.
Mr.
Hodge,
Theater,
H.
William
Howard
Warner
Boy
Laundry
Wartle
John Weatherbee
Robert
Thisby
Kent
,"
P^'*?,^"''=?"
McCauley
Fredenc
Kent.'.'
.'.'.'.'
Warrington
Studio,
I.
the
Staged
is
Frank
Wheeler
Lee
N.
J"hn
SYNOPSIS:
on
Belleville
de
Ann
Tom
Act
Bncker
".Lo'^s D?":'?/
""""""
Butler
and
Heaton
.Alice
Kent
Mrs.
"""
Minam
Kent
Helen
Mr.Lesoir
Mr
Morgan
Harold
Curtis
lone
Thompson
O'Connor
Edward
William
Hodge
Mr.
Rosamond
Lucas
J^S^}^.Lamont
""
Four
Act
New
Days
I.
York
"
John
City.
Weatherbee's
Act
III.
Act
Later.
in Connecticut.
II.
"
Estate
Kent
Hodge.
by William
struggling writer
a
John Weatherbee,
Living
starving in a top-floor studio.
Room
Same
Living
"
The
with
with
as
Hill
"Harmony
Days
Two
Later.
flair
him
'for verse,
is
boy
of
four
in
he
had
taken
as
to
verses
invited
prize
brings
who
woman
baby's
poet
is
to
agree
agreed
bring up
comedy
'duced
the
The
upon.
the
boy
marries
poet
Siad
Frank
Helen
forced
Yorker
to
stab
known
(Later
I.
Act
Country
"
acts,
pro-
22,
1920.
Hatch
DeWolf
Rolland
K.
Home
Anna
as
Gloris
Artos
Cromwell
Alice
Adams),
Fried
Alden
Brady
Siad
"
Months
Three
they
Cliff Worman
Pinto
Street,
New
Fisk,
New
Henry
Coffee
Coury's
House,
Act
II.
City.
Private
Years
Later.
Six
City.
of Henry
Fisk, Irvington-on-theYork
York
Later.
"
Act
IV.
"
Same
as
Act
I.
Day.
Syrian who
house,
young
in
wildly ambitious
New
promise
com-
Effingham
Housen
Hudson.
The
Next
waitress
A
and
Werner
John
Betty
SYNOPSIS:
Office
of
Act
III.
the
Rod
LaRoque
Edward
Morse
Fisk
Washington
whether
aunt,
Gustave
Ayyobb
young
adopted
him.
S.
Anna
the
CHARACTERS
Gents)
as
Coury
Nellie
Van
Miss
Bird
as
see
Ward
Rizzo
Bessie
is
the
be
to
the
WiUiam
The
together.
OF
Fisk
(Known
"Bunch"
Berry
Allen
Sparkles
Stead
John
Tanner
"Beauty"
Fisk
Henry
Anna
is awarded
honor.
out
turns
some
ASCENDS"
CAST
Howard
of
mother
dying
submitted
Ford
in four
by Harry
Chapman
New
York, September
Playhouse,
drama
at
of
arms
guest
invitation
"ANNA
the
precipitates a struggle to
shall
have
legal guardian
child's
the
or
club's
the
the
which
aunt,
be
to
1920-1921
Weatherbee,
having
hterary-club competition,
woman's
and
OF
from
infant
an
house.
boarding
PLAYS
BEST
THE
384
coffee
to
of
good
a
become
family
vicious
cadet
who
takes
a
America,
job
$3 a week, becomes
meets
good American,
a
young
tries to help her, and
is finally
who
comes
saves
would
to
her
make
white
slave
of
she
has
killed
Thinking
him, she flees,changes her name,
school.
and
Six years
later
to
she
is a best
seller
night
goes
the
Ascends.
written
the
novel
Anna
called
authors,
having
among
the
the
white
Again sjje meets
man
and, though
good young
slaver
returns
to
threaten
in having
him
her, succeeds
jailed
the
the
hero.
same
day she promises to marry
her.
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
"MARRY
A
farcial
in
comedy
Oliver
THE
three
Morosco
POOR
acts
the
at
CAST
Ripley
Kittie
Porter
OP
Davis,
Theater, New
25,
Mrs.
Paddington
Harrison
Gary
Carlton
Halbert
Brown
Isabel
Lowe
William
Roselle
Harold
De
Ninita
Gibbs
Becker
Bristow
Stapleton
Kent
Beatrice
Morgan
Grogan
Wilbur
Maude
SYNOPSIS:
Island.
David
Frances
Mann
Gertrade
Maitland
Prank
AUworth
Sara
Second
by
York,
CHARACTERS
Paddington
Julia Paddington
Jack Tanner
Littlefield
Bradley
Rose
produced
1920.
Wallace
Winsted
385
GIRL"
William
Tom
Ann
Rev.
YORK
Owen
by
Little
September
Steve
NEW
Act
Floor
Scene
of
I.
"
Wallace
Scene
"
The
Paddington's
Tanner's
Jack
Room.
A
Few
Minutes
Later.
That
Staged
Evening.
by
2
Room.
Living
Living Room.
"
Main
Noyes
Braun
O'Connor
Hall
House
on
Act
the
Long
on
II.
The
III.
The
Priestly Morrison
Act
"
"
house
Julia Paddington and Jack Tanner
are
guests at the same
home
full of the stuff that
Jack's friends, bringing him
party.
should
have
with
him
disappeared
prohibition, shove
through
the
door
of Julia's room
He
by mistake.
spends the night in
the
armchair
into
which
he
settles
and
scandal
next
morning
threatens.
insist
she
shall
the
Julia's parents
marry
young
the
is
to
The
upon,
man
quiet
performed, wheregossip.
ceremony
of the
out
thinking to help him
Jack's friends
scrape.
with
first
two
alleged
wives, making him out a bigamist.
one
or
appear
married.
Jack and JuHa thereupon decide to remain
TAVERN"
"THE
A
Dick
acts
Gantt, produced
by Cora
comedy
tragedy in two
the
Cohan
M.
Cohan
at
York,
Theater, New
by George
September
27,
1920.
CAST
The
Tavern
The
Hired
Girl
The
Tavern
Hired
Man
The
The
Keeper's
The
Governor
The
Governor's
Governor's
Fianc6
Phillips Tead
Carlyle
Dodson
Spencer
Mitchell
Charters
Arnold
Elsie
Vagabond
Woman
CHARACTERS
Wanda
Keeper
The
The
The
OF
Son
Morgan
Wife
Daughter
Lucia
Alberta
William
Daly
Rizer
Wallace
Moore
Burton
Je"Erey
BEST
THE
386
SheriS
The
Sheriff's
Man
The
'The
Sheriff's
Attendant
Other
The
and
more
Man
is
Play
Sterret
Guthrie
in
Two
Acts.
melodrama
arrives
there
homeless
Action
The
Staged
Tavern.
Freeman's
Gaunt
Wilham
by
Holicky
M.
Joseph
night
stormy
1920-1921
Joseph
less wild
or
OF
Lee
The
Zacheus
PLAYS
Takes
skillfullyburlesqued.
at
lonely tavern
a
and
vagabond,
a
woman,
and
his family, who
have
been
held up
crossroads.
Suspicion develops
Governor
the
in
Place
Meehan.
John
On
wild
romantic
of
the
state
by footpads at a neighboring
the
to
identity of each
in
To
the
it is deliciously
turn.
of the
characters
vagabond
and
he
like a drama,
characters
delights in directing the familiar
in their parts.
Finally the keepers of a neighboring sanitariimi
take
certain
of the characters
back
of the
home, and the cause
humorous
is
made
clear.
mixups
"MERCHANTS
Afterward
Alan
called
as
VENUS"
OP
"Because
of Helen."
Brooks, produced
and
Judy
Theater,
by
New
CAST
OF
Richard
Lambert
York,
September
by
Punch
27,
1920.
CHARACTERS
Bainbridge
Edward
Donnelly
Robert
Kelly
Billy Hasbrouck
Ned
Bainbridge
Jack
Bainbridge
Helen
Davenport
Elsie
Mrs.
Davenport
Mrs.
Arnold
Marie
Frank
Thais
Wilcox
Hudson.
Over
Midnight.
Afternoon.
That
Hour
Magrane
Darwell
Jane
James
Terbell
McComas
Thomas
Hoier
Carroll
Benson
Benson
SYNOPSIS:
Residence.
Brooks
Rushmore
Vivian
Cromwell
Gladys
Dayton
Alan
Davenport
Vema
Alfred
One
acts
S. Ktirasaki
Oliver
York,
the
at
Vosi
Little
in three
comedy
Howard
Mary
Act
Two
Act
II.
I.
The
"
"
Oliver
Bainbridge's
Estate
Davenport
Years
Later.
Act
III.
Year
Later.
Jack's
Rooms,
Scene
Billy's Office, New
2
a
"
Scene
Night
3
at
"
i r.
New
York
the
on
Scene
"
Upper
i
"
New
York.
12
York,
Preceding
The
Hasbrouck
New
Apartment,
Scene
Jack's Rooms,
M.,
i A.
4
"
Later
Scene
Than
Note
I.
Act
III.
Are
Retroactive.
Time
Bertram
Harrison
and
the Author.
"
Scenes
Present.
"
and
cynic,
of
Staged
by
attempts
society.
debutante
Cromwell,
not
feel
He
is in
intent
an
to
on
tively
attrac-
it would
be
PLAYS
honorable
He
for
tries
the
PRODUCED
him
to
IN
that
seeing
marry,
best
his
NEW
friend,
tries to save
girl, and
cad
of her.
a
unworthy
to
prevent
mercenary
from
marrying
embroiled
imhappily
in
he
who
both
love
YORK
is
the
As
does
387
love
not
from
rich,
girl who
result
afEairs, from
her.
marrying
loves
him
becomes
he
which
he
is
finally extricated.
"DON'T
A
Scottish
in
comedy
Morris
by William
TELL"
three
acts
the
Nora
at
by Graham
Moffat, produced
Bayes Theater, New
York,
September
CAST
Mirren
27,
1920.
CHARACTERS
OF
Cameron
Bella
Jessie
James
Bogle
Tibbie
John
Tocher
Willie
Mrs.
Cameron
Bailie
MacRoberts
Eva
Violet
Mrs.
Devine
David
Devine
Grace
Cameron
John
Clyne
Mrs.
Cameron
Campbell
Graham
Mofifat
Tawde
George
Margaret
Cameron
Graham
Wee
Bunty
oot
Dr.
Proudf
Mrs.
Macbeth
Betty
Marie
SYNPOSIS:
Act
at
I.
Evening.
Afternoon.
Act
III.
Macbeth's.
"
Mrs.
"
Act
Scene
Room
II.
Stuart
Camerons'
in the
Flat.
The
Same.
Saturday
"
James
Bogle's
i
ment
ApartScene
Saturday
Evening.
2
The
Later
Saturday
Evening.
"
"
II,
I. and
Acts
Occurs
of the Play
Same
Action
Wully
Dunsmore
Margaret
Macbeth
Wednesday
Noble
Moffat
Campbell
John
Aitken
J. Wright
Black
Jossie
as
in
Glasgow
in
1913.
PATTER"
"FITTER
A
Embert
Runciman
Neil McNeil
Winifred
Moffat
Jean
in three
by Will M. Hough, music
acts, book
comedy
B. Friedlander, produced
by WiUiam
and
lyrics by William
New
the
at
Theater,
York,
Friedlander
Longacre
B.
September
28, 1920.
musical
CAST
Bob
OF
CHARACTERS
Bryce
Violet
Mrs.
Price
John
Livingston
Jack
Forrester
Mason
George
James
Maxwell
Muriel
"Dick
Mason
Crawford"
George
Thompson
Mason
Proprieter of Candy
Mildred
Keats
Helen
Bolton
Hall
'.
Meriden
Jones
Squires
Frederick
Richardson
William
Kent
Jane
Albert
Hugh
Howard
Shop
George
Warner
Chilvers
Smithfield
PLAYS
BEST
THE
388
Car
street
1920-1921
OF
SYNOPSIS:
II.
Act
"
Street
"
At
"
Room
Exterior
of Hotel
"
musicalized
the
of
of
Home.
Mason
Home.
Shaft.
Evening.
Cuba.
Havana,
Miramar,
Collier's
William
of
version
Bottom
the
Drawing
Colo.
Springs,
Mason
Mine
a
the
of
in
farce, "Caught
Rain."
the
"THREE
A
comedy
in
three
Marcin
at
the
29,
1920.
CHARACTERS
OF
Gubbins
Mercer
Beryl
Beatrice
Miller
Shackelford
Enunett
Woofers
Peggy
Bolton
Gubbins
jtmmie
William
Spoof
Charles
Foster
y
Rose
Yard
Jimmie
return
Leicester
find
is in
already
position
listed
collected
to
Hfe
his
York
left New
had
who
from
themselves
three
William
Gubbins,
London
to
with
Metcalfe
Mercedes
Desmore
shell
also
serves
and
the
the
correct
is
Foster
cloud
Gubbins'
error.
insurance;
under
Dalton
Arthur
"Spoofy,"
an
unknown,
the
after
to
war
prison camp
None
of the
officially dead.
Foster
German
still
the
Sheffield
Charles
Bensen
Lady
McNaughton
Helton
Percy
Cyril Chadwiclc
Flora
Gordon
of Scotland
Briggs
by Max
York,
Isham, produced
New
Village Theater,
Frederick
by
acts
Greenwich
CAST
Mrs.
GHOSTS"
LIVE
September
and
has
mother
American
young
reason
has
to
believe
and
police are
looking for him,
"Spoofy," suffering from
remember
nothing of the past.
shock, can
"Spoofy"
has
skill
which
an
as
a
developed
kleptomaniac,
uncanny
to
Before
the
the
complicate matters.
evening is over
records
of the
three
are
cleared
"BROADWAY
A
Spelvin
Greeter
in Colorado
Room
Drawing
"
Scene
"
III.
Act
I.
Act
Scene
"
Afternoon.
Scene
George
Arthur
Conductor
Butler
in
revue
Jackson
two
and
Maire
at
George
the
ending
is
satisfying.
1920"
PRINCIPALS
Bert
and
BREVITIES
29,
Eddie
up
Cantor
Williams
LeMaire
1920.
ENGAGED
Hal
Van
Rensellear
Natalie
Kingston
Ula
Sharon
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
NEW
4;L"ji?5",^'"^
gii'tli
Jailor
Teck
Parker
Van
Dyke
William
Sully
Paul
Murdock
Genevieve
Barnes
Marcelle
three
in
Selwyns
by Edgar
acts
Selwyn, produced by
New
Theater,
York,
Square
September
30,
CAST
OF
CHARACTERS
Nash
Florence
Mildred
Whitney
Mack
Moreland
Irene
Mrs.
Wallace
CWally)
Ruth
Stuart
Martin
Chester
(Chet)
Martin
Al
Manning
Wilham
Mile.
Elise
Dolly McMann
Gait
M.
Henry
Stanley Northrup
Charles
Peggy
Grace
Reed
Mason
Alan
Dinehart
Bert
Wanda
Helen
J. Norton
WilUams
Bain
William
Stanwood
Alexander
Elkins
Mabelle
Camilla
Lyon
Soir
Le
George
John
Godding
Clayton
George
Came
Laurence
Maginnis
Malcolm
Arnold
Warren
Edward
Howard
Benton
Carol
Ray
Williams
Act
SYNOPSIS:
Ajpartmentin
of
Florence
Reginald
Alison
Bradshaw
Catherine
Proctor
Williams
William
Martin
Mrs.
the
1920.
Bond
Betty
Kern
MIRAGE"
Times
the
at
Houghton
Florence
"THE
melodrama
389
Peggy
VeraGrosset
YORK
I.
Fifties.
the
"
City.
York
New
Act
in November.
Day
Same
Gait.
of the
Evening
Act
-I. The
Morning.
Following
a
of Irene
Room
Living
II.
Home
Act
"
Day.
Staged
Moreland's
Late
of
III.
Afternoon
Henry
the
by
M.
Same
"
as
Author.
York
of
New
in search
to
Erie, Pa., comes
the
with
in
she
hfe.
crowd,
Falling
a
wrong
permits
gives up the fight to be respectable and for seven
years
for
and
her
maintain
traction
to
help
an
a
apartment
magnate
before
Mrs.
her
her care
folks
for the
at home.
By putting a
later
her
first convinces
she
family she is married, and
name
Erie
Her
writes them
she is a widow.
sweetheart, having got on
York
in the world, comes
New
to
to
By this time she
get her.
Irene
work
of
Martin
broader
and
is tired
hfe
the
of
she
is
living and
overlook
a
Erie
her
doubt
and
in
past,
but
her
mind
its group
after
her
the
finds
traction
that
to
eager
she
is
her
return
magnate
will
ever
magnificence
She
out.
complete
and
to
he
and
succeeds
be
able
freedom
and
Erie
convinces
is
willing
in
ing
plant-
to
stand
she
has
been
wait
used
So
sends
she
worthy
is
feels she
she
until
York.
in New
to
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
390
to
come
Erie
the
home
boy
to
him.
to
"MECCA"
A
musical
in
spectacle
dances
two
music
acts,
Fletcher,
by
book
Foldne,
choreography
by
Morris
and
produced by F. Ray Comstock
October
New
the Century
York,
Theater,
Asche,
Oscar
Gest
at
1920.
4,
CAST
of the
Officer
CHARACTERS
OF
Guard
Richard
Henry
Arthur
Barron
(of Cairo)
Gate
Keeper
Abdullah
Nicholson
John
Kataf
Robert
Seller
Nur
Al-Din
Prince
Al Malik
The
Sultan,
Julian
Orange
Herbert
Orville
Al-Nasir
R.
Al
Wei
Wa
Palace.
Wei's
III.
Thousand
Day.
Pilgrims
by
Al-Din.
"
Cairo.
Scene
Wei
San
Staged
Same
Act
the
Scene
"
"
Wei
Scene
San
Rhamazan.
4
Gate.
The
Same
the
Eastern
of
Gardens
the
Sultan's
Palace.
"
II.
Nile.
3
The
Wei's
"
by
Henry
of Cairo.
Ali
Shar's
The
Sultan's
by
The
"
Scene
Scene
Ago.
MuUe
Lorber
Lane
Gates
The
i"
Day.
of
House
Scene
Scene
"
Years
Later
the
The
Feast
Next
"
I.
Act
Gaming
Night.
Leary
Martha
Walter
Richard
SYNOPSIS:
a
Hanson
Ida
Abram
Patriarch
Dwelling,
Skinner
Pierson
Thomas
Girl
About
Watson
John
Gladys
Shi
Dancing
Doran
Mayhew
Harold
Khasib
Shamar
Wazir
Au
Sharazad
Wei
Wei
San
The
the
Nur
Toback
John
Kate
Edward
Zarka
Zaid
Wazir
Caldwell
Hannah
Yaksan
Abu
Rhodes
Winters
Grimwood
Dolaro
Genevieve
Basil
Smith
Lionel
Braham
An
Old Woman
Blind
Man
The
Ali Shar
Zummurud
E.
by Percy
Michel
and
E.
"
Scene
Scene
An
Slave
"
old
Market
of
of Prince
Palace.
Act
Egyptian
of El-Taban.
Scene
"
"
The
The
Scene
Dwelling.
Lyall Swete.
Encampment
Harem
"
The
Gates
of
safe
for
kingdom
the
and
selects
a
democracy,
populace
among
be
his
wife.
and
His
set
to
singing girl
only
one
on
enemies,
the
the
dethroning him, abduct
singing girl and
try to murder
sultan.
The
sultan
finds
the
both
made
girl again, when
are
captives by the villains, and with the help of a pair of Chinese
in making
their escape.
conspirators they both succeed
An
honest
sultan, intent
disguised
goes
on
making
his
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
"JIM
A
musical
in
comedy
Stoddard,
YORK
Cort
JEMS"
two
acts
CAST
OF
Porde
Stanley
Ada
Annette
Mae
Weets
Marwick
Irma
Pbihp
Quick
Case
"'ohnny
E. Brown,
Frank
Fay
Joe
McCann
Spotter
Mclntyre
Virginia
Clark
Gattison
Jones
Gay
Murphy
Minnie
O'Ryan
Taken
Mr.
E.
Joe
"Miss
Rose
Jazz
Mis..
Rosie
Miller
Langdon
Roscoe
Jazz
Ails
Miller
Midgie
'
Robbins
Harry
Zoe
.Tudson
Miss
High
Miss
Lowe
Sextette
Missi
Baroett
Paul
MilsPencil}
The
McCarty
Kin,
Sister,
Cecelia
Edwin
Duval
Viola
Madge
Lawrence
Arthur
Brooks
Hart
Murray
SYNOPSIS;
Act
I.
Scene
"
Ward's
Residence,
Ward's
Residence,
23 East
Fifth Avenue,.Fronting
3
Cyrus
9.45
6sth
Plaza
"
the
Atop
"
ounge
Ball
Harry
Langdon
Kathryn
Miley
Ned
Sparks
ames
Archie
Birdie
E.
CHARACTERS
Cyrus Ward
June Ward
Geraldine
391
music
the
at
JAM
NEW
P.
"
M.
Scene
"
Hotel
Promenade.
Same
Room,
Hotel,
Midnight.
Staged
by
dancing
niece,
of
Exterior
"
P.
M.
Street. 10.15
Hotel,(lo.4.? P. M.
II.
P. M.
Act
Hotel.
11
Astorbilt,
P. M.
n.30
Astoria
Room
Reception
Scene
Scene
Scene
Scene
Edward
"
"
J.
McGregor.
A
philanthropic uncle,
comedy
popular
detective
and
in four
comedy
Guild
or
two
scandal-sheet
cabarets
porter,
re-
set
tunes.
TREASURE"
"THE
A
one
at
the
by
acts
Garrick
CAST
Chone
Jachne-Braine
Pinski, produced by
New
York, October
Theater,
David
OF
the
4,
CHARACTERS
Dudley
Jenme
Digges
Moscowiti
Tille
Celia
Judke
Fred
Adler
Eric
Theater
1920.
to
BEST
THE
392
The
PLAYS
OF
1920-1921
Broker
Marriage
-.
Soskin
The
.Edgar
Henry
of
President
Community
the
Erskine
Sanford
""l-Sr'l^o^'il^^'SJT^ies
I^i"--
An
Old
Young
Her
A
Girl
Woman
Another
Man
Act
Act
that
at
of the
force
the
graveyard
is
truth
has
who
has
is
taken
the
is
musical
music
by
the
House.
Same
Morning.
Produced
to
of
the
imperials in a
rumor
spreads
and
his
or
her
treasure.
resident
every
They
share.
of
location
excited
no
searchers.
his
find
all
and
Finally the
The
only
one
who
is the
adventure
share
which
the
by
There
uncovered
disclose
the
capture
"KISSING
Chone's
in
getting
on
to
overrun
her
with
been
is intent
half-wit
revealed.
trousseau
Room
Same.
"
treasure
profited from
has
"
Reicher.
the
to
"
The
Michaels
Wothington
of
Evening
The
Same.
The
Following
The
Same
Graveyard.
Night.
III.
community
try
I.
Leighton
of golden
boy finds a handful
the edge of a Russian
village. The
buried
II.
The
"
graveyard
Curran
Valerie
Stevens
Adelina
Thomason
William
Act
IV.
Emanuel
half-witted
Florence
Edith
Saul
SYNOPSIS:
Day.
McAndrews
Mary
Man
Morning.
Knopf
Stephana
Rolla
Lyons
Woman
Woman
by
Edwin
Lian
Daughter
Another
A
Young
^'"^^'^
S. Karrakis
/
Jochim
\ Anthony
Woman
Little
Act
Woman
Hysterical
An
R-h-.'-'d
^^""^
for Poor
Maidens
Members
of the Society
for the Care
of the Sick
A Lawyer
Stehli
Travers
gravedigger's daughter,
imperials and bought herself a
a
husband.
TIME"
in two
V.
comedy
acts, book
by George
Hobart,
Philander
by
Caryll, lyrics by
Johnson, produced
the Empire
the
at
Producing
Corporation
Ljfric
New
Theater,
York, October
ii, 1920.
Ivan
CAST
Emile
Tashi
Grossard
Polydore
CHARACTERS
Coleman
Harry
Primrose
Mimi
Robert
Clarice
OF
Dorothy
Perronet
Paul
Edith
Cliquot
Armond
Moulanger
Paul
Pommery
Anatole
Absinthe
William
Caryll
Maynard
Frawley
Taliaferro
Norris
Fr^nk
Doane
Charles
Edwards
Donald
Sawyer
"
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
NEW
YORK
Rose-Marie
Eleanor
Virginia
Lynne
Cora
d'Orsay
Jessie Lynne
Babette
Suzanne
Diane
Helene
Vmenne
Dolores
Loie
Frances
Amelia
Margaret
Martini
Bacardi
Fran9ois Chandon
Henri
Martel
Charles
Moet
Sauteme
Raphael
Louis
Chablish
Gaston
Burgundy
George
SYNOPSIS:
Act
I.
The
Scene
Fitting Room.
That
Sylvaine.
Evening.
Later
That
Night.
Staged
"
Scene
2
in
acts, book
two
music
Bumside,
Dillingham
York,
Charles
II.
Act
Edward
Caldwell
lyrics by Anne
by
Caryall, produced by
the
Globe
at
Theater, New
October
5,
Dan
Bert
and
Zell
elaborate
entertainment
to
"Fred
with
Stone
show"
set
new
acrobatics, an
specialty.
his usual
"buUwhip"
Jordan
White
Bell
Fred
Brown
Billy Brown
Brown
Harry
Verne
Brown
Alfred
Brown
Ursula
O'Hare
Clark
Dorothy
Charles
Mast
Princess
White
Anna
Ludmila
Talmadge
the
in addition
Baker
Lilyan
Tommy
Valerio
Caldwell
Vivian
Duncan
Duncan
Rosetta
Marie
Sewall
Pauline
Hall
Gus
Minton
enlivens
1920.
ENGAGED
Hoyer
typically
and
Ivan
Gladys
Royce.
and
Teresa
Violet
Maison
Mimi.
Room
of the Caf6
Mimi's
Apartment.
TOP"
Fred
Stone
Oscar
Ragland
Rich
Helen
Scott Welsh
Ray
"
by
PRINCIPALS
Roy
the
"
Reception
"
"TIP
H.
Lloyd
Rose
Page
Shirley Latham
Ellen Best
Vernon
Ruby
De
Forrest
WooUey
Thomas
Maynard
Fred
Packard
Reginald Miller
A. C. Jenkins
Frank
Bryant
McGum
William
John C. Daly
Maxine
Pierre
R.
Chase
Rosser
Green
Polly
Georgette
revue
Ladd
Georgia
Jeannette
393
in
which
of stunts
exhibition
of
Deer
"
the
star
including,
marksmanship
UNWRITTEN
"THE
H.
A.
by
Victor
and
Woods
at
ii,
Bob
Salomoi;
Rachel
Salomon
Carroll
David
Katie
PLAY
Louis
Belwin
Murray
Alex
Watson
TenenholtB
C. Power
Harry
Seixes
Lang
Ferguson
Hermann
Ceroid
Martini
Mortimer
Judah
Lyons
Samuel
Isaac
Leo
Al
Jacobs
Benjamin
Clarence
Howe
De
General
General
Hubert
Louis
Gerald
Heister
Bernard
Carl
Donop
EPILOGUE
Robert
M.
Frank
Sr
Harrington,
Prologue
Sr.,
Harrington,
in the
Room
"
September
Scene
i.
Five
Howe's
Frank
of Haym
A.
M.
Later.
Act
Hours
M.
About
8
P.
in the
Beekman
Headquarters
Epilogue
"
Same
in
City,
York
New
Home
1776.
15,
Den
Smoking
Later.
Morning.
Robert
"
Three
Days
Rogers
Reinold
L.
Diete
Kingdon
Robert
SYNOPSIS:
City,
Druce
Hector
1920
"
Salomon
Robert
Scene
Irving
Paul
Warren
Geoffrey
Darrington
Cajjt.
Major
Frankel
Sincoff
Derwent
Moses
General
the
Salomon,
Scene
II.
Act
"
Barratt
Home
Act
1920.
"
Same
Mansion.
of
I.
"
New
York
Same
as
as
IIL"
Prologue.
as
Act
I.
General
The
Staged
Next
by-
Milton.
Bob
of New
York, back
Harrington
dinner
Frank
to
buddie,
Salomon,
Bob's
father, disliking Jews, is much
his
forbid
dinner,
is
Hackett
Howard
Mattie
Lucile
Jack
Gomez
Samuel
Mann
Arleen
Alma
Madison
Gershon
Mendez
Capt.
Rabbi
Rogers
1776
"
Franks
Mrs.
Robert
Schlemiel
Salomon
Keane
Barratt
Robert
Gerald
Judith
before
Kingdon
Ryder
Salomon
Haym
to
Frank
acts,
York,
1920
Sr
THE
inclined
Theater,
Harrington
Frank
Manson
three
New
CHARACTERS
OF
Harrington,
M.
in
1920.
PROLOGUE
Robert
Victor
Astor
the
October
CAST
1920-1921
CHAPTER"
Shipman
Samuel
play by
produced
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
394
Salomon
however,
direct
patriot
might
who
tlae
.the
descendant
house.
elder
of
from
the
war,
has
invited
the
home.
Harrington
displeased, and
frankly
In the
preliminary talk
at
that
Harrington discovers
the
tionary
RevoluHaym
Salomon,
that
the Continentals
practically pauperized himself
After
the
of
hearing
Haym
story
money.
the
is acted
between
the
Salomon, which
prologue and
epilogue
of the play, Harrington
and
apologizes for his previous rudeness
the young
insists on
Jew making himself
perfectly at home.
have
PLAYS
PRQDUCED
"THE
IN
MEANEST
in
comedy
three
M.
George
MAN
by
acts
Cohan
IN
CAST
Bart
12,
OP
Ned
CHARACTERS
Ralph
Boulden
Frank
M.
Thomas
Nerval
Keedwell
Mrs.
Ahce
Chapin
Stephens
Clarke
Nellie
Clarke
Frederick
Henry
Leona
Leggitt
Elwood
Blllmgs
Carlton
Michael
O'Brien
Hudson
Lute
Boon
George
W.
.Marion
Callahan
Coakley
Cameron
Hugh
T. Doyle
John
Fletcher
Harvey
Leeds
Fielding
SYNOPSIS:
Bostwick
Raymond
Donnelly
Leo
Jane
Franklyn
Hogarth
F.
Peter
Childs
Hiram
Sipperly
Donnelly
Ruth
Howard
Clarke
Mrs.
New
1920.
Oatmaa
Richard
produced
by
York,
Theater,
Nash.
Crockett
Kitty
Andy
Act
I. "Law
II.
Offices
of Richard
Back
Office
of the
J. Hudson
"
Co., Hudsonville,
Pa.
Twenty-four
Later.
Act
III.
Garden
of the
Hudson
Home.
Weeks
Later.
Meehan.
Staged
by
John
New
York
City.
Act
Clarke.
Store
of
"
Hours
Seven
"
Richard
lawyer,
failure.
best
His
be
must
Clarke, a
convinced,
is
selfish
determines
"J.
to
mean,
quits
his
the
comedy
the
town
town
Co.,
young
the
world,
he
advice,
if that
collect
to
woman,
is
long-
discovers
who
man
that
is about
skinflint.
Clarke, forgetting to be
collector, becomes
Jane Hudson's
into
boom
a
town," and
finally
MRS.
OUTRAGEOUS
in four
Messrs.
PALMER"
acts
Shubert
at
CAST
OF
CHARACTERS
Miriam
Herrick
Rowena
Carton
The
the
girl.
"THE
as
"
take
to
young
is
he
succeed
to
in
Pennyslvania
Hudson
village
bum
that
man
attractive
job
"turns
attorney,
marries
the
meanest
J.
most
by
robbed
him
Clarke, trying
small
soft-hearted, diffident
five-year experiment, that
advises
the
from
is
mean.
to
account
Hudson"
be
friend
and
Sent
necessary.
overdue
generous,
after
become
to
395
WORLD"
MacHugh,
Hudson
October
YORK
THE
Augustin
the
at
NEW
Hon.
Charles
Cardigan
North.
.Herbert
.
Elliot
Blair
Eugenie
Standing, Jr.
by
BEST
THE
396
House
PLAYS
OF
1920-1921
Louise
Maid
Sullivan
Brandon
Leble
De
E.
Henry
Luis
Marcelle
Edith
Miss
Tripp
Mrs.
Charles
Mrs.
Herbert
Miss
Clara
Guy
Dunn
Natalie
Cardigan
Mary
North
Boi
Palmer
Hackett
Raymond
Minna
Beebe
Gale
Frank
Mrs.
Herbert
I.
A
City.
Act
Act
1917.
New
York
IV.
Mrs.
"
in
III.
Collins
The
Mrs.
"
I.
Residence,
North
M.
in
"
Shore,
Dressing
Palmer's
P-
II.
Act
1917.
10.45
Act
as
Palmer's
May,
House.
Theater.
Same
"
Michael
Morning
Country
RoUin's
August,
in
Dekum
May
Act
York
1918.
Haynes
Edney
Florence
SYNOPSIS:
Mass.,
Young
George
Loo-Ylang
Rollins
New
Scott
Evans
Franklin
.
Thompson
Room
Albemi
Rose
Jane
Holden
James
Oosy
Woozy
Philip Michael
Voe
Dixey
February,
June.
"MARY"
musical
and
in two
comedy
Frank
music
Mandel,
M.
George
acts, book
Cohan
New
OF
Hirsch,
18,
CHARACTERS
Georgia
Alfred
Florrie
Francis
Huggins
FVederic
Charles
Gaston
Marceau
Mr.
Goddard
James
Deakon
Meakon
Golden
Willie
Toddling
Hotfoot
Harry
Dora
Coo^y }
An
Shadow
McNeil
Lou
Edna
Lockett
^y
Act
of
Mrs.
Keene.
Exterior
of
Mrs.
Afternoon
Mitchell
Bert
Lillian
Tom
Winnie
SYNOPSIS:
in
and
June.
Sam
Totton
Bowhan
Si Layman
Helen
King
Tessie
Dancing
Two-Step
Waltzing
Judeis
Marlowe
Richards
Gene
Whirlwind
Graham
Wesley
Sibylla
Girl
Caine
Gerrard
Millership
Janet Vehe
Howells
Mary
Home
McGowan
Jack
Boyd
Madeline
Theater,
1920.
Keene
ack
M 'rs, Keene
Tommy
Harbach
produced
Knickerbocker
October
York,
lyrics by Otto
Lou
by
the
at
CAST
and
I.
Reception
"
Keene's
Staged
Forrest.
Hall
in
Night
Home.
by
Geo.
in the
January.
The
M.
Pierre
Themselves
Long
Act
Garden.
Cohan,
Island
II
"
An
Julian
by
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
NEW
YORK
397
Carpenter,
produced
"BAB"
A
in
comedy
the
at
four
by
acts
Park
Edward
Theater,
CAST
Leila
Childs
New
OF
York,
October
Edith
Ling
Helen
Gumey
Hannah
Archibald
Brooks
Clinton
Eddie
Sam
SYNOPSIS
Country
Scene
I.
An
The
"
curtain
(The
Act
House.
The
Afternoon
"
Morning
Room.
Bachelor's
Minutes
to
Few
Boathouse
Staged
as
Room
at Archibald's
Late
in May.
Act
II.
in Act
I.
The
Next
Day.
Scene
minutesO
The
2
Same
III.
Day.
Act
"
"
of the
Night
in the Archibald
Boathouse.
A
Quarters"
the
Same
Act
IV.
Twelve,
Night.
The
in Act
III.
Weeks
An Afternoon,
Three
Later.
"
"
Ignacio
by
Hayea
Edwards
Morning
Room
as
for three
is lowered
Morning
Powers
Lillian
Ross
Arthur
Eldred
Davis
Stephen
Robert
Hudson
Beresford
Perkins
Grosvenor
"The
Kearney
Tom
Helen
Archibald
James
Jane
Raleigh
Guy
HasweU
Percy
James
Carter
Bab
1920.
CHARACTERS
Archibald
Mrs.
WilUam
18,
Martinetti.
Barbara
the
"sub-deb"
of the
Archibald,
family, returns
from
weeks
ahead
of
two
unexpectedly
boarding school
schedule
and
Within
proceeds to stir up the family.
fortnight
a
has
she
the
marital
sister
and
plans of her debutante
upset
affair
for
herself
made
invented
love
to
which,
more
a
appear
serious
than
it really is,sets the family by the ears.
A dramatization
of Mary
Roberts
novel
of the same
Rinehart's
name.
home
1920"
"HITCHY-KOO
revue
in two
Anne
Caldwell,
Amsterdam
New
lyrics by Glen
MacDonough
music
at
Kern, produced
by Jerome
October
New
York,
Theater,
19, 1920.
acts, book
and
PRINCIPALS
ENGAGED
Hitchock
Raymond
Julia Sanderson
Douglas
G.
Grace
Stevenson
Moore
Huntley
Maurice
Black
Tyler
Brooke
Peggy
Ruth
Mitchell
O'Denishawn
Marion
Claire
Underwood
Wilbanks
P.
Florence
Billy Holbrook
Toe
Anastasia
Reilly
Muriel
Lodge
Mosconi
Brothers
Fred
Arthur
Bobby
Hal
Jack
Cunningham
Henri
Staged
by
Ned
Waybum.
Lingen
Martin
Evans
Coimelly
DuBall
Sands
Lynch
and
the
PLAYS
BEST
THE
398
"THE
in
comedy
Golden
three
acts
Little
the
at
OF
YEAR"
FIRST
by Frank
Theater, New
CAST
1920-1921
Craven,
York,
Mr.
Mrs.
Roberta
Livingston
Tim
SYNOPSIS:
I.
Act
Training
"
111.
Home,
Reading,
Apartment,
Tommy's
Quarters
II.
the
at
"
Ringside
The
"
Mo.
Joplin,
Home.
Livingston
the
at
"
Act
Esinonde
III.
Act
Staged
"
The
Michell
"
by
63.
page
"THE
in
tragi-comedy
William
SKIN
three
GAME"
by
acts
Brady
A.
John
the
at
CAST
Galsworthy,
Theater,
20,
New
1920.
CHARACTERS
OF
ill
M:
Mr.
produced
Bijou
October
York,
MacLean
Marsh
Allen
Horace
Pollock
Joan
Hillcrist
Fellows
Mr.
Jackman
Tracy
Lillian
Mrs.
Jackman
Mrs.
Hillcrist
SYNOPSIS:
Ash
II.
Inn.
Country
Boudoir.
The
Hillcrist's
Study.
in the
Tonge
Shirley Gale
320-
I.
One
Same
Mr.
"
The
"
Month
District
The
Hillcrist's
The
Later.
Evening.
Following
Evening.
Country
Garden
Ashton
Scene
"
Tonge
ton
Douglas
Act
Act
Braine
Cossart
Ernest
Anna
Estate.
Lomas
Hales
Victor
Josephine
Robertson
Auctioneer
An
Solicitor
A Country
First
The
Stranger
Second
The
Stranger
page
Bowyer
Herbert
St.
Clair
H.
Rolf
Remote
Brooke
Arthur
Homblower
Mr.
Charles
Chloe
Same,
Barrow
Brennard
Cynthia
Dawker
See
Norcross
Merceita
Barstow
Knockout
Smith.
Bennett
Hale
Barstow
Livingston
Craven
Leila
Mre.
See
Chambers
Frank
Hattie
at
Sampson
Granger
Murphy
Lyster
Tuckar
Mr.
1920.
Arnold
William
Maude
Dr. Anderson
Dick
Loring
Thomas
20,
John
CHARACTERS
OF
Livingston
Livingston
Grace
by
produced
October
Act
Study
Billiard
Scene
TTI.
Action
in England.
of the
Scene
Play
by
Staged
His
of
Chloe's
"
Scene
"
Morning.
on
Room
"
"
Mr.
The
in
Passes
a
Basil Dean,
by
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
NEW
YORK
399
"YOUTH"
A
tragedy
in three
Meltzer
Max
by
acts
the
at
Halbe, produced
Village Theater,
Greenwich
October
CAST
Reverend
Father
Annuachka
Amandus
Father
OP
CHARACTERS
Hoppe
Adolph
I. "A
Spring
The
Next
Afternoon.
Act
Place
The
Living Room
Staged
Reicher.
by Emanuel
III.
of
"
home
the
to
his
of
cousin
the
Annuschka,
Annuschka
Stephen wrongs
his inexperience
and
as
brother, seeking to
uncle,
with
an
kill
firl's
uUet
reaches
Annuschka's
girl dies
priest'sarms
in the
play
in
eight
CAST
Jones,
Harry
Smithers,
Lem,
See
page
Old
a
comedy
Henry
Morning.
Following
Parsonage
Woman
Native
Chief
Shannon
Act
II."
Morning.
Rossnau.
at
returned
for
his
tion
vaca-
OF
absolution.
pronounces
JONES"
O'Neill, produced by
Playhouse,
Neighborhood
G.
the
Nov.
i,
the
1920.
CHARACTERS
Charles
Emperor
Cockney
a
Native
S.
Gilpin
Deeter
Christine
Ell
Charles
Ellis
Jasper
299.
in
three
Miller
acts
SUPPOSE"
Stafford
Hannibal
Carter
Montgomery
by
Stafford
Warren
A.
New
Theater,
CAST
Kingsley
Mrs.
he
as
"JUST
A
McAtesr
B.
Reese
Sheffield
priest, meets
again
whom
he
had
played as a boy.
and
pleads his youth, his great love
for his sin.
the
excuse
Amandus,
fires
the
at
but
the
Stephen,
couple,
in place of Stephen's.
heart
The
Players at
New
York,
Brutus
Alan
Catholic
by Eugene
scenes
Provincetown
An
the
EMPEROR
"THE
A
The
"
German
Churchill
Reginald
Zyllah
Act
Link
Lois
Edward
Mafflischka.
SYNOPSIS:
and
26, 1920.
Shigorski
Hartwig
Stephen
by Conroy
New
York,
OF
at
Thomas,
produced
November
York,
i, 1920.
E.
CHARACTERS
Pauncefort
George
'"
"
"
Lawrence
Mrs,
Thomas
William
Eddinger
Whiffen
J. Keighlay
the
BEST
THE
400
Linda
1920-1921
Stafford
Lee
Hon.
OF
PLAYS
Leslie
Shipley
George
of
Marquis
The
SYNOPSIS;
Next
An
George
a
dinner
and
Eton
Later
(who
given
Staffords
the
by
motoring
Calverton
chum,
of
Stafford
May.
in
III.
have
may
Kerr
Pred
Kerr
The
"
Drawing
II.
Act
Room,
Same
The
Garden.
A
"
Stafford
Evening.
"
him
goes
The
"
Act
Afternoon.
Fortnight
I.
Evening
Howard
Geoffrey
Kamaby
Act
Fairview.
Collinge
Patricia
Calverton
Sir
Fairview
the
been
Prince
Wales)
of
American
Secretary
through Virginia. With
Shipley, who
happens
and
stops
"ditches"
of State
to
his
pay
in Washington
him
is his old
know
to
George,
respects.
Linda
the
Lee
Stafford, and
back
to Washington.
Not, at
flatly to motor
until
It
is
love
first
with
Linda
Lee
at
the
next
least,
sight
day.
and
her prince, and
he will gladly give up his royal job if she wiU
the
word.
But
she knows
that he belongs to his people and
say
him
that
all her
life she
wiU
sends
remember
back, knowing
the
thrill of his handclasp
and
be haunted
the
smile
in his
by
into
following Shipley
thereupon refuses
the
house,
meets
eyes.
"THE
An
PRINCE
Mark
of the
adaption
acts, produced
by
the
New
Nan
Twain
Messrs.
story
Shubert
OF
PAUPER"
by
at
i,
Amelie
the
CHARACTERS
Mary
RuthFindlay
Lowden
Clare
Seymour
Margery
Francis
Ralph
The
Hendon
Earl
Miles
of Hertford
Hendon
Eames
Anthony
Frank
Howson
Harda
Harold
Walter
Daube
Webster
Sherwin
Rutherford
Montague
William
Hodge
Faversham
Frank
A Landlord
Mad
Anthony
Howson
Philip
Cecil
Moll
Gertrude
Andy
Captain
Lord
Mallow
Adams
John
Guard
Mistress
King
Barlow
Reginald
Gallard
Hugh
Princess
Elizabeth
Thomas
Rehan
Madeleine
Harry
of
Crammer
Troopers
Alexander
Samson
Yapp
Davis
Kittredge
Ernest
in four
Theater,
1920.
l?Sce^S]'^.ri}
Sir
Rives
Booth
Canty
Canty
Canty
John
THE
November
York,
CAST
Mistress
AND
Grant
Loftus
PLAYS
PRODUCED
SYNOPSIS;
Offal
Court.
II.
Scene
Act
Scene
i
"
Hendon's
Act
Beginning
Scene
Room.
401
Scene
in
The
Home
i
Canty
Outside
Act
the
King's Palace.
Street
in London.
Scene
Miles
2
Act
III.
The
Barn
Southwark.
at
A Hall in the Palace.
The
Scene
2
"
"
"
"
"
YORK
NEW
"
Lodging.
IV.
Throne
I.
"
IN
"
"
Staged
by William
Faversham.
with
the
adventures
of Tom
Canty, the beggar's
told
folks have
play at being a prince because
him
he looks
like
Tom
the
heir
be
his
to
brother,
enough
apparent
self
from
Offal Court, finds hima
beating by running away
escapes
in by the prince he so
outside
the palace gates, and
is invited
Then
the
much
resembles.
the young
boys change places and
the
has
into
prince, venturing
thrilling
lark,
a
city on
many
experiences, being saved
only by
finally from
rough treatment
the
to
the
the
bravery of Miles
Hendon,
soldier, and returned
crowned
in
time
Tom
from
to save
palace just barely
being
young
who
son,
Ukes
to
king.
"THE
MOON"
HALF
in three
and
lyrics by William
acts, book
comedy
by Charles
Jacobi, produced
Baron, music
by Victor
New
the
York,
at
Theater,
Liberty
Dillingham
musical
Le
November
CAST
i,
1920.
CHARACTERS
OP
Mrs.
Francis
Bolton
Grace
Charles
Hudson
Oscar
Hobson
Joseph Santley
Green
Maude
Elame
Estelle
Maggie
Act
SYNOPSIS:
Fifth
Lower
business,
is intent
stock.
over
on
He
when
is
cuts
even
disgusted
marrying
the
this
boy
York.
(Six
Staged
Hobson,
Hudson
Mass.
when
off
Fred
Hollander
snobbish
treatment
by
at
Act
G.
to
36
Latham.
break
in
rich
returned
daughter of the
the
pockets, but
fails
Act
"
Later.)
Months
grown
his son,
Pahner
Ebume
House.
III.
Hobson's
Brookline,
New
Present.
of
Garden
"
Avenue,
The
"
I.
Adams's,
Mr.
At
"
Time
Cawthom
Shaw-
Joseph
Hobson
Adams
Charlie
Thompson
IngersoU
William
Adams
Copley
Bradford
"vision
Lawrence
W.
May
Bolton
Mary
John
Henry
Henry
Sawyer
Virginia Shelby
Anne
II.
Oliver
May
Ivy
Edna
Jarvis
Adams
Beckett
Joe
Sparling
Herbert
Harkins
up
from
old
is
the
pro-
France,
Mayflower
finally won
the
romance.
PLAYS
BEST
THE
402
OF
1920-1921
"AFGAR"
acts
by
spectacle in two
Furher,
Douglas
David, lyrics by
and
Gest
produced by Comstock
New
York, November
musical
Man
Wise
The
Don
Juan,
Fred
music
Central
8, 1920.
CHARACTERS
CAST
OF
of the
East
Colling
Guy
Beebe
Irving
Lane
Lupino
Jr
Coucourli
Houssain
Giafar
Af
Lord
Isilda
Messaouda
W.
gar
H.
Frances
Violet
Rawlins
Cameron
Blythe
Fay
Evelyn
Jean Caselle
Jean Grey
Melzard
Alyce
Hanifa
Amina
Badoura
Morgiana
Clara
Burton
Vera
Ruby
Belbali
Seraphine
Carolyn
Marrima
Reynolds
Lewis
Lorette
Zurudda
Jacque
Delona
Antilas
Zaydee
SYNOPSIS:
Moor,
Sage
Miller
Ana
Billie
Dancha
Alice
Delsia
Syli"hine
Gamble
Glenn
Khasan
In
Irving
Paul
Collins
Guy
Sheridan
Philip
Danasch
by
Cuvillier,
Theater,
Charles
by
the
at
Worton
and
Thompson
Act
Frank
I.
IL
Act
Afgar.
Courtyard
"
The
"
of
Harem
the
of the
Palace
Palace.
of
the
Staged
Collins.
Moorish
harem
Don
Juan,
Jr.,
of the
has
been
ladies
imprisoned
punishment
reach,
sight,
as
a
successfully flirtatious.
Zaydee, the favorite
being too
with
the
harem,
sympathizing
Juan, organizes a strike of
Ladies'
of
Harem.
Union, their demands
being the release
shorter
and
husband
one
workday
prisoner, a
apiece.
in time
strike
wins
and
Don
for the
finale.
Juan is released
but
within
not
within
for
"FRENCH
A
comedy
in
Marc
three
Klaw,
acts
Inc.,
York,
CAST
Corporal
Rifleman
Mile.
Sykes
Jenks
Juliette
of
the
the
The
LEAVE"
by
at
Reginald
the
Belmont
November
OF
8,
Berkeley, produced
Theater, New
1920.
CHARACTERS
Dallas
Harry
Welf
McNaughton
Mrs.
Cobum
ord
by
PLAYS
PRODUCED
Madame
NEW
YORK
Denauit
Captain
Harry
H.len
Glenuter
Bngadier-General,
Lieutenant
George
M.
Jules Marinier
SYNOPSIS:
Act
IN
III.
Brigade
Achibald
Act.
Next
"
Root,
C.
Out
Omlow
Cha".
Cobura
Noel
Arthur
I.
Morning.
"
Scene
Momine.
Resting
Tilden
Alexander
Graham
of the
Line
Act
II.
The
"Somewhere
Tearle
Klein
Evening.
"
Mess
"
403
Room
of
in France."
at
whose
house
the
general is staying. A clandestine
is interrupted by the
meeting of the Glenisters
general, Dolly
is suspected
of being a. spy,
court
martial
is ordered, and
a
Captain Glenister
seems
likely to lose his commission.
Learning
the
and
with
Mrs. Glenister, the general
truth,
being charmed
relents
and
all is
forgiven.
"THE
A
in
play
three
produced
the
MANDARIN"
acts, and
by
the
Princess
epilogue by
an
Mandarin
Play
Theater,
New
CAST
OF
Man
The
The
Painted
with
Stranger
9,
Brandon
Tynan
McCoUum
Barry
Cyril Raymond
Dog
Woman
Edna
Holland
M.
Mario
Majeroni
The
Servant
The
Model
Arthur
Louise
The
Lady
Amy
The
Opera
The
Singer
SYNOPSIS:
Room
The
"
Orth
Dennis
Bruzovna
Robert
Tabor
Prologue,
Later
Apartment
of
of
Allen
Halina
Doctor
Baron's,
1920.
CHARACTERS
Artist
The
Bernstein,
Co., Inc., at
November
York,
Baron
The
The
Herman
Producing
Early
That
Evening.
Evening.
Act
I.
The
Act
II.
room
AnteHotel
Drawing
A Garden.
Time
"
"
III.
Act
Opera.
Singer.
Epilogue
Place
Anywhere.
Staged
Box
at
the
Opera
the
"
"
Present.
W.
by
"
H.
Gilmore.
An
to
It
can
doll
unhappy
suffering
baron,
recently has
granting
the
possessor
to
achieve
invented,
happiness
stranger,
doll with
a
wish
he
confesses
breakdown,
nervous
with
the
any
makes.
without
the
aid
of
supernatural
The
baron
struggle.
mandarin
powers
of
acquires
him
offers to serve
faithful
to life and
as
a
doll, which
comes
of beautiful
genii. The
baron, wishing for the company
women,
and
is soon
sm^eited
with
love
begins to realize that only the
effort is worth
the having.
by one's own
happiness that is earned
the
He
seeks
be
to
placed
to
strangle his
He
delusion.
who
in his
and
patient in
his
peopled
have
power,
tormentor
is
is tied
he
play in three
delirium
Guild
at
Garrick
Shaw,
patients.
produced
York,
by the
EU3abeth
Risdon
1920.
CHARACTERS
OF
Dunn
Helen
Westley
Albert
Perry
Nurse
Guinness
Shotover
Captain
TJtterword
Lady
Hesione
Lucille
Dunn
SYNOPSIS:
the
it
young,
Staged
Early
"
the
Later
in
Place
Takes
"
of the
test
the
boast
bom
of
innocent,
worthlessness
of
their
at
the
elders."
NAME
"THY
war
least
CAST
A
A
A
Woman
Man
Sold jer
Frontier
OF
After
"
Action
of
in
the
as
Heartbreak
var3ring social
know
how
to
"that
came,
how
all
to
that
die.
and
was
Thus
the
smitten, and
the
and
expiated
hopeful
folly
on
a
They all speak their minds
the war,
symbolized by a bombing
but
basically unchanged.
IS
WOMAN"
and
at
15,
the
F. Glazer,
Benjamin
Playhouse, New
1920.
CHARACTERS
Nash
Mary
Jose Ruben
Curtis
Cooksey
Guard
strata
live
House'
Travers
Garden
known
it knew
'Heartbreak
and
Digges
Digges.
great
that
ord
Eric
Roeder
II.
The
Shotover's
Captain
Dudley
by
Act
Evening.
Night.
Same
of
the
first
the
I.
-
Shotover,
Captain
wander
representatives of
the
that
did not
England
was
the
were
"
home
House, there
of England
found, when
left to
Act
III.
Act
the
Play
Sussex.
Into
Dudley
Ralph
Henry
Burglar
Dinner.
Sanf
Fred
Hector
Hushabye
Boss
Mangan
Randall
Utterword
The
Watson
Shannon
Effie
Erskine
Hushabye
Mazzini
Theatre
November
New
Theater,
CAST
characters
HOUSE"
lo,
ElHe
fellow
his
from
all the
and
once
seeks
He
life.
for
momentarily
his
are
by Bernard
acts
the
him
sanitarium,
that, having
finds
to
recovers
"HEARTBREAK
A
1920-1921
and
mandarin,
of the
rid
himself
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
404
Edwin
Maynard
PLAYS
PRODUCED
The
four
is laid
scene
mountain
the
episodes.
IN
in
tanner's
NEW
house
Spanish
Pyrennees.
Staged by Jose Ruben.
YORK
the
on
The
405
top of a
is told in
story
sacrifice
The
by
her
older
anemic
more
kills the
fly
wife
with
and
her
lover.
is arrested
authorities.
"SAMSON
A
and
mate
husband,
the
and
AND
DELILAH"
acts
tragi-comedy in three
by Sven
Lange, translated
by
Samuel
S. Grossman,
the
produced
by Arthur
at
Hopkins
Greenwich
Village Theater, New
York, November
17,
1920.
CAST
Peter
OF
CHARACTERS
Krumbaok
Dagmar
Sophus
Ben-Ami
Krumback
Pauline
Lord
Robert
T.
Haines
Marie
Bruce
Thomas
Meegan
Meyers
Laura
Munson
The
Director
Knstensen
Edward
G.
Robinson
Dukar
Samuel
Jaffe
Robert
Harrison
Pila
Stella
Milka
Lundberg
Nagel
Alexis
Olson
Frederick
II.
Manart
M.
Jacob
Act
'
"
The
Peter
"
Stage of the
Act
III.
The
Arthur
Hopkins.
"
I.
Home
The
ThaUa
of
the
Home
of
the
Theater
During
Krumbacks.
Olonova
Kippen
Polianov
Kingsberry
A.
SYNOPSIS:
Act
Larrimore
Olga
W.
Reno
Krumbacks.
Rehearsal.
Staged
by
written
Krumback,
a
dramatist, has
poet
an
young
"Samson
Delilah"
called
and
in which
allegorical drama
Art,
is betrayed
as
represented by Samson,
by the Theater
(Delilah)
Philistines
the
who
is
to
(the public). His
wife, Dagmar,
secretly in love with
Sophus
dealer, is to
Meyers, a furniture
At
the
rehearsal
of the
play Delilah.
play Peter, dissatisfied
reads
with
the
the
actor
assigned to the role of Samson,
part
himself
and
is much
thrilled
the
with
which
by
passion
Dagmar
her lines
until he discovers
that
she
is playing over
his
reads
Philistine
lover.
Disillusioned
and
head
her
to
hurt,
Sophus,
with
attacks
the
Peter
and
Sophus
later, 'securing a revolver
"
intention
of
taking
of
PLAYS
BEST
THE
4o6
OF
1920-1921
the
thought
own
head.
at
his
"JIMMIE"
musical
in
comedy
Hammerstein
CAST
Hammerstein
November
York,
New
Theater,
Arthur
Harbaek,
by Otto
music
Mandel,
by Herbert
Arthur
by
produced
Apollo
acts
Frank
and
2d,
Stothart,
three
17,
CHARACTERS
OP
Carlotti
Paul
Porcasi
Madame
Beatrice
Gambetti
Dee
Hattie
Loretta
Burks
Frances
Don
O'Brien
Tom
Milton
Blum
Blum
Jacob
O'Brien
Jerry
Ben
Rita
Dancer
Violinist
E.
Holmes
Wanda
Rose
Henrietta
Helen
Neff
Tess
Mayer
Blanche
Act
SYNOPSIS:
I.
Scene
"
's
Carlotti
Restaurant.
above
Carlotti's
Restaurant
Evening.
Home.
Months
Later.
Eight
who
has
inherit
her
daughter,
brought
plot that
a
become
fortune,
successful
CAST
Richard
Daniel
Danks
Watson
the
in
Carroll, produced
Theater, New
Henry
Sydney
of
is discovered
up
cabaret
Dumphns
Room
Dining
Scene
"
Blum's
Jacob
of
Apartment
"
"
Later.
his
in three
comedy-drama
Earl
Year
substitutes
Jacob
Blum.
Italian
Knowing
keeper
restaurant
daughter
own
time
to
for
prevent
Blum's
Jimmie,
inheritance.
DUMPLINS"
"DADDY
Private
"
Afternoon,
Act
II.
III.
Act
long-lost daughter
is the
is to
Kitten."
Gray
Little
Mott
Oswald
Heisler
Jack
Chfford
George
Marshall
Betty
Mary
Jane
Giuseppi
has
Rossa
Peter
Raymond
Antonio
she
Owin
Irwin
Peters
Henri
Jimmie
Welch
Trueadell
O'Hare
Tom
"The
White
Borrougha
Delf
Harry
Howard
Watkins
who
1920.
VincenBo
Jimmie
that
the
at
acts
by George
Barr
Carroll
by Earl
November
York,
OF
McCutcheon
the
at
22,
1920.
CHARACTERS
Maclyn
Arbuckle
Moore
Percy
Louis
and
Republic
Kimball
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
NEW
YORK
Florence
Florence
Alexander
Napoleon
Marie
Louise
Percival
Harold
Wilberf
407
Flinn
Andrew
Jr.
Lawlor,
Helen
Chandler
Gardner
Lawlor
Chandler
Leland
Elizabeth
Gulick
orce
Betsy
Rosemary
Haldorn
Himself
Marcil
Isidore
Hanna
Pranklyn
Georgine
Ginger
By
Dubbs
Maurice
MacPherson
Dan
Eric
Dawson
Richards
Percy
Lizzie
Olive
May
Murphy
Frances
Murray
Anna
Maclntyre
Crane
Mary
Rutland
Betty
Stokes
Madeline
Quinn
Priscilla
Penn
Delia
Lucindy
First
Officer
Second
Carey
Thomas
Officer
Hall
Frank
Matron
Margaret
SYNOPSIS:
Country
Hall
of
Act
I.
Reception
Christmas
Estate.
Eve.
Mr.
Dumplins'
Country
Act
June.
Hall
"
III.
Six
York
Apartment.
Carroll.
Months
Dumplins'
Mr.
Reception
II.
The
"
following
New
Dumplins'
Earl
Staged
by
Estate.
of
Mr.
Hall
Reception
"
of
Act
Donna
Later.
amiable
fat and
inheriting a
Dumplins,
bookkeeper,
a
and
his employer,
devote
it
the
to
to
care
proceeds
The
adopted
orphans.
employer's son
upbringing of seven
when
the
takes
the fortune
court
his father's will, and
contests
back
is forced
send
the
children
to
Dumplins"
"Daddy
away
Henry
fortune
from
the
home
to
from
relents, the
on
which
in
comedy
family
Daddy's
and
Then
them.
three
WE
acts
Shubert
Messrs.
York,
son
is reunited
Harper
Annie
Laurie
YOUNG"
ARE
by
Kate
at
the
McLaurin,
produced by the
Broadhurst
Theater, New
L.
November
CAST
Carey
OF
22,
1920.
CHARACTERS
Henry
Alma
Brown
George
Sam
Mrs.
Marcet
Dorothy
Day
Act
SYNOPSIS:
Week
Eisner.
Day
Oliver
Martin
I.
Carey
"
Later.
Afternoon.
Act
Evening.
Sitting
House.
Tanner's
Tell
Marion
Monroe
Reals
Grace
Helen
Gillmore
Tanner
Blair
Halcyon
Hull
Frank
Jamison
Robert
Leo
the
eve.
"WHEN
A
taken
has
back
comes
money
Christmas
he
Room.
few
Library
Harper's
Act
III.
days
"
later.
II.
Mrs.
Same.
"
Tanner's
Staged
by
in
Hall
Mrs.
One
ment
Base-
Edward
THE
4o8
Carey
he
it.
had
He
house
with
is
Harper
fortune
he
PLAYS
BEST
rich
inherited
has
rather
ambition
to
insists
in
honest
when
girl,who
shop
to
to
amount
"ROLLO'S
in
comedy
produced
two
at
WILD
acts
and
the
Punch
and
CAST
OF
23,
CHARACTERS
Ivan
Lydia
Park
George
Aunt
Roland
Dora
Gales
Manuel
A.
Lucas
Lane
Horatio
Webster
J.
Hewlett
Grace
Peters
M.
Kerrigan
Elinor
SYNOPSIS:
Act
Park
Room,
That
Very
I.
New
York
in Early
West,
Morning
Following
"
Scene
"
L.
Studio.
Cox
Central
"
"
"
"
Scene
On
the
2.
Stage,
Scene
Sitting Room.
I
Shelbrooke.
Two
Hours
the
Following
Morning.
"
Gihnore.
ambition
slightly eccentric, has a consuming
to play Hamlet.
of his family,
Escaping the restraining influences
he spends his own
in
engaging a company,
hiring a theater
money
in
and
of the
His
staging a production
tragedy.
Ophelia is
Goldie
who
would
have
been
in a midnight
McDuff,
a
success
frolic if she
could
after twelve
The
o'clock.
only keep awake
reaches
the
word
theater
that
Rollo's
night of the performance
has
died
and
the
grandfather
Goldie, convinced
man
young
should
be told, walks
and
breaks
boldly into his best scene
up
the
is obliged to
show.
His
butler
and
finish
the
on
go
formance.
perIt is discovered
later
that
grandfather is only fooling
Rollo
off the
The
to keep him
to
boy decides
quit and
stage.
marry
Webster,
W.
RoUo's
"
Interlude
Evening.
the
Oddity
Theater.
by
"
Time
Twelve
o'Clock
on
Scene
The
the
Same,
2
Scene
RoUo's
ing
Dressi
City.
Spring.
Moment.
Act
H.
Grandfather
Webster's
Home,
Later.
Scene
The
Same,
2
Rollo
Alexander
Stanley
Bella
Staged
Young
Davidson
Lotus
Robb
Tressider
Edythe
Collins
J. Palmer
Campderdown
Skitterling
Thomas
Simpson
Kummer
Marjorie
Rollo
Webster
Mr.
Stein
Goldie
MacDuff
Mrs.
Kummer,
New
1920.
Hewston
Whortley
recovered
by Clare
Theater,
Judy
November
York,
boarding
OAT"
interlude
an
the
loses
inspires him
accepts a, job
He
something.
in the streets
and
shoveling snow
and, through work
of
is
in
the
last
act.
joy
life, completely regenerated
an
he
York
New
wasting
on
work
to
go
But
suicide.
Brown,
1920-1921
who
man
young
and
refuses
commit
Annie
meets
OF
Goldie.
PLAYS
PRODUCED
"THE
A
IN
BROKEN
NEW
YORK
WING"
in four
acts
comedy-drama
Charles
by Paul
Dickey and
the
at
Goddard, produced
Forty-eighth Street Theater,
New
York,
November
CAST
General
Panfilo
OP
29,
CHARACTERS
Aguilar
Louis
Cross
Ouichita
George
Mary
Inez
Inez
Villera
Luther
Farley
Captain
Teny
Dos
Santos
Walter
Charles
I.
Later
Home.
Living
"
Afternoon.
Next
Month
Later.
the
Act
Mexico.
Parley's
Inez
Staged
Paul
by
has
her
sent
Trowbridge
crashing through
loses
airplane.
Phihp, who
comes
Spelvm
Tanehill
Himself
"
"
"
Dickey.
girl,brought
by
up
"gringo
when
Philip Marvin
one
the
roof
his
of her
foster
memory
in
of
the
recovered
his
his
in
love
in
burletta
and
three
YOUNG
by
produced
Street
acts
by
from
book
William
A.
Theater,
New
CAST
OP
Daisy
Ashford
Ethel
Monticue
Mr.
Salteena
Rosalind
Railway
to
Porter
the
for
Inez.
ransom,
after
with
Mrs.
Philip
Inez
Norman
George
by Daisy Ashford,
the
Thirty-ninth
at
Brady
Noveinber
York,
29,
1920.
CHARACTERS
Grace
Doughtery
Mane
Herbert
Ruby
Albert
Goff
Yost
Gordan
Shrabb
an
proves
with
America
in
VISITORS"
dramatized
MacKenzie
Margaret
flies away
York
airplane.
rehabilitated
"THE
he
memory
New
house
crash,
has
believes
and
father's
falls
and
American
an
husband"
desperately
bandit
hold
him
to
plotting Mexican
attempts
American
the
and
secret
but is outwitted
service,
by
convalescent
romantic
Ethier
Scott
at
Home
Farley's
II.
The
Patio
of
Act
III.
The
Same.
Act
IV.
The
Same.
Afternoon.
Later.
Play
Room
Act
Morning.
Lord
P.
Myrtle
By
SYNOPSIS:
One
Duggan
George
Sundance
in
Worth
Plummer
Alphonz
Marco
Cecelia
Babe
Spurin
Abbott
Henry
Innocencio
Waldron
Philip Marvin
rancher
Wolheim
Joseph
Sylvester
W.
1920.
Basilio
in
409
THE
4IO
PLAYS
BEST
OF
1920-1921
P.
Footman
Minnit
Harold
Wilfrid
Clark
Policeman
Railway
Desk
in Pay
Lady
and
Menial
The
The
Prince
Earl
of
The
Archduchess
Helena
Gay
who
of Greenwich
the
goes
city,"
Palace,
Kathleen
is
Burdett
Greville
Gordon
Ruby
the
shown
are
written
novel
the
Mr.
with
Salteena
by
won
old
nine-year
Daisy
Monticue,
enjoy the "gayety of
levee
at
Buckingham
Ethel
of
to
attends
and
finally wooed
by
adventures
Clark,
Bernard
meets
Andrus
Bernard
Josephine
Cromwell.
John
London
and
Rapp
Haswell
Mary
Florence
Fredericka
staging of
to
Lbwxy
Palmer
Marvin
Tullyvarden
Duchess
by
Pape
Kemp
Roswell
Leslie
Herring
Finchling
in which
Ashford,
Hollins
Stewart
Menial
literal
Harvey
Lionel
Clincham
of
1st
Staged
Hanna
Anstruther
Cawthome
Peggy
Bessie
Topp
A Stray
Lady
Brott
Savage
Frank
Procurio
Earl
The
Keating
Bernard
Charles
Bernard
Lady
Lady
Serano
Robert
Horace
Charles
Bernard.
"CORNERED"
comedy-drama
W.
Henry
in four
Savage
acts
at
the
December
CAST
Nick
Rose
Wells
Frank
8,
New
Theater,
Leontine
Brewster
Casey
Updike
Dr. Emerson
Smithson
Watson
York,
1920.
CHARACTERS
Coman
Edward
Fielding
Charles
Tong
Nettie
Madge
Joseph
Botime
Kennedy
V.
Natalie
Ameha
Tullar
Manning
Gardner
Cornell
Elmer
Margaret
Waring
Wells
George
Maid
Miss
Mitchell, produced
Dodson
Astor
Morgan
Jerry
Sing Hi
Lola
Mulvaney
Brennan
Mary
Flanagan
Mrs.
OF
by
Madge
Kennedy
Leslie
Therese
Robert
Austen
Quadri
Forsyth
Thomas
Gunn
Tom
Walsh
Charles
Esdale
Timothy
Edna
Edith
Kane
May
Ford
by
PLAYS
PRODUCED
SYNOPSIS:
II.
Act
Margaret
"
Act
Later.
Act
IV.
Time
The
"
Same.
Present.
The
"
I."
The
Waring's
III.
The
"
IN
Pekin
boudoir,
Same.
Next
Staged
NEW
Pleasure
82d
John
Club.
Street.
Twenty
Morning.
by
YORK
Two
Minutes
Place
McKee.
Act
Weeks
Later.
New
"
411
York.
reared
in crookdom,
tries "going straight"
Bretman,
the
a shopgirl's salary, grows
on
discotiraged and disgusted when
floorwalker
pinches her, quits her job and is lured back to the old
life on
the
promise of her pals that they "will turn
one
more
trick
and
looks
like
Mary
enough
Margaret Waring,
quit."_
rich young
sister
be her
twin
to
and
society woman,
to
a
agrees
Miss
and
impersonate
Waring
during the latter's absence
help
friends
her
crook
rob
the
safe.
In the
house
Waring
Waring
she is able to fool the servants
and
all goes
well vmtil Miss
Waring
and
is
shot
returns
of the crooks.
unexpectedly
by one
Failing
her
is
"cornered"
and
forced
to make
Mary
effectively
escape,
the
Miss
latter's
to
impersonating
Waring
during
on
valescence.
congo
Mary
she
Then
in fact, twin
girls are,
during a wreck
at
confesses
sisters
and
who
music
at
in three
comedy
musical
Harold
by
the
Liberty
A.
acts, book
Levey,
and
infancy
Sears,
lyrics by Zelda
by Henry W. Savage
presented
York, December
New
Theater,
CAST
OF
14,
1920.
CHARACTERS
Harry
Lang
Lawrence
Lee
R.
Webster
Harry
Ted
Weller
Harry
George
Joe
Mack
Kosiankowski
Anaatasia
Bateson
Wallingford-Butler-Daventry
Beatrice
Kennedy
Constance
Greenstreet
Sydney
Newcombe
Jean
Adair
Josephine
Marion
Lucia
Barton
Billie
Wedgewood
Harriet
Arnold
Elsie
Gladys
Willa
Helen
Hildred
Helen
Diggett
Estella
Gwendoline
Mildred
E(jith
Manuel
Vicrica
Arthur
Montijo
Beatrice
Babe
Slavaka
.*
.'
Gaska
.
Eleanor
Renard
Halpren
Betty
Muriel
Seiior
Mile.
separated
the
BILLY"
Tom
Dick
Mrs.
Eloise
that
in their
sea.
"LADY
were
it is discovered
Bimey
Lamb
Uttry
Collenette
Stanton
Livingston
'
PLAYS
BEST
THE
412
OF
1920-1921
Anita
Mariaska
Celestina-Elizabeth-Selana-
Antonia
(Billy
Pardove
of
Wilhelmina
Mitzi
Master)
Marshall
Boyd
Charles
Gay
John Smith
Alphonse
SYNOPSIS:
Rumania.
Greenwich
John
Staged
The
is in
"
Antonia
of
herself
dressing
Act
Later.
Same
III.
"
Evening.
visit
who
tourists
the
Pardove,
of
"
Kosiankowski,
Downtov/n.
"
Countess
the
of
Months
Three
Village.
Apartment
McKee.
John
by
Castle
of
Madame
"
Smith's
habit
to
11.
The
Studio
I.
Act
Act
Countess
the
Monroe
Paine
Helen
Vaska
Countess
castle
she
that
is
the
she
finds
impoverished
countess,
her
which
castle,
exhibiting
Balkan
as
being
couatry
the
haunted.
On
occasion
as
Billy"
"ghost"
"Lady
appears
An
American
to
engineer, working
spreading.
keep the rumors
and
son"
"the
to
in the
takes
gardener's
fancy
a
vicinity,
great
him
America
advises
to
to
Lady
Billy,
as
a
boy soprano.
go
the
end
of
her
and
that
she
is
at
knowing,
knowing
resources,
this
the
follows
she
loves
advice, with the
American,
too, that
of the
son
Being
gardener.
an
it necessary
to piece out
living by
a
the
well
advertised
is
throughout
result
that
in
the
last
she
act
into
skirts
and
marries
engineer.
the
"MIXED
gets back
tragedy
Bramhall
in
four
MARRIAGE"
Playhouse,
CAST
John
Mrs.
Hugh
Tom
Micky
Nora
St.
by
acts
New
OF
John
Ervine,
York,
December
produced
14,
at
the
1920.
CHARACTERS
Augustin
Margaret
Rainey
Rainey
Rainey
Rainey
Duncan
Wycherly
RoUo
Peters
McCoUum
Barry
Harmon
O'Hara
Murray
MacGregor
Angela
McCahill
is led, through
honest
the
an
John
Rainey,
Orangeman,
friends
fellow
take
of
his
and
the
to
importunings
workmen,
in Belfast
and
serve
as
leadership of a strike of workmen
maker.
peaceThe
have
been
masters
trying, the workmen
believe,
into the strike, to set Catholic
to inject the religious issue
against
in the
Protestant,
Rainey
hope of dividing the men.
fights
aroused
all the
enthusiasm
of a newly
zealot
bigotry with
"
until
he
discovers
that
his
son
has
engaged
himself
to
marry
PLAYS
PRODUCED
Catholic
girl. At this
bigot himself, denounces
the city into
succession
a
fiancte
shot
is
by
the
IN
his
knows
rage
strike as
the
of
NEW
YORK
bounds.
no
Papish
riots, during
413
He
of which
one
turns
plot, and
throws
the
son's
soldiers.
"SALLY"
A
musical
in three
comedy
acts; book
by Guy Bolton, lyricsby
music
Grey,
Kern
and
Victor
by Jerome
Herbert,
Florenz
produced
by
the
New
Ziegfeld, Jr., at
Amsterdam
New
Theater,
York, December
Clifford
21,
CAST
1920.
OF
CHARACTERS
"Pops"
Alfred
Rosalind
Sascha
Otis
Jacques
Ten
Walter
Marilynn
Connie
Colonel
Blair
"
Ridges
Alta
King
Fluff
Betty
Tot
Barbara
Vivian
Kitty
Pickles
Gladys
Farquar
SYNOPSIS:
Scene
Church
in
The
"
Room.
'Round
I.
The
Richard
Dressing
Ballet
in
the
After
Comer.
the
The
FoUies.
Performance.
Greenwich
restaurant
as
is
waiter
Tree
Barker
Earl
Barroy
Staged
searching
duke.
who
This
fails
to
arrive.
Follies."
"Ziegfeld
Dolores, the
business.
favorite
leads
It also
puts
model,
and
to
the
she
her
duke
takes
"
"The
washer
dish-
job as a
Serving in the
a
of the
one
gives
for
Sally's
"
Royce.
for
On
millionaire
Sally substitutes
"
Performance.
Edward
by
off a Long
Thursdays
in his honor, at which
Inn.
Act
Act
III.
Scene
3
Scene
restaurant.
Balkan
Island
Alley
Blair's
Home.
Before
the
Room.
comes
girl who
Village
poor
Elm
"
of
Sally's
"
Dressing
Sally is
Act
Garden
Boothe
Jack
Ivan
Kingdon
Wade
Burton
Scene
Dean
Vernon
McDonald
Frank
Billy Porter
The
Williams
Montgomery
Mary
Bobby
"
Fisher
Stanley
''Babe"
II.
Ryley
Irving
Hooper
Harry
Errol
Phil
Parquar
Richard
Miller
Leon
Travers
Jimmie
Hay
Rebiroff
Catlett
Dolores
Broek
Sally
"
James
Mary
Hooper
Mrs.
P.
Rafferty
the
garden party
prima ballerina,
a
for
engagement
in the
him
same
duke's
out
way
of
of the
the
meeting
rant
restau-
THE
414
OF
PLAYS
BEST
ROSE"
"MARY
A
fantasy
iij three
Frohman
Charles
the
at
M.
James
Barrie, produced
New
Empire
Theater,
December
York,
CAST
Mrs.
Sir
by
acts
1920-1021
OF
22,
1920.
CHARACTERS
Tom
Harry
O.
Morland
Mrs.
Morland
Rev.
Simon
Blake
B.
Ruth
ose
Chatterton
Nesbitt
Guy
SYNOPSIS:
i
II.
I.
Act
"
Scene
Sussex
and
Iden
Payne.
The
"
It Is To-day.
Island.
Act
As
The
"
As
"
It
The
action
of
To-day.
thirty years,
over
passes
See
Clarence
Tom
Cameron
Scene
Nesbitt
Winifred
Fraser
A.
S. Homewood
Amy
George
Mary
Act
King
Ada
Otery
Mr.
island
an
by
Home
Scene
III.
Used
the
to
Be.
the
outer
Morlands.
It
Used
of
Home
Scene
which
between
in
the
As
"
The
"
play,
of
2
Be.
to
the
lands.
Mor-
As
"
rovers
small
Buckley
It
Is
of
period
in
house
manor
Hebrides.
Staged
by
196.
page
"DEBURAU"
A
in
tragi-comedy
the
French
at
the
Barker
from
adapted by Granville
Belasco
Guitry, produced
by David
four
acts
Sacha
by
Belasco
New
Theater,
CAST
OF
Deburau
iean-Gaspard
lane
Duplessis
Monsieur
Bertrand
Robillard
York,
December
Lionel
Atwill
Elsie Mackay
Bernard
A. Reinold
Hubert
Druce
Joseph
Rowland
Rebard
Clara
Isabel
Edmund
The
The
"Barker"
The
Unknown
Leighton
Gumey
Toler
Sidney
Taker
Money
Helen
Lady
A
Journalist
Tho
with
the
Lady
Rabouin
Madame
Lylia
St.
John
Roche
Berprman
Georgie
Ryan
Morgan
Farley
L. Shine
John
Sallie
Promoter
Scene
Staged
page
Bayfield
Gray
Coghlan
Eden
Rose
Man
Young
Reimer
Burnand
Clair
Lorgnette
Charles
Master
Charles
Deburau
A Doctor
See
Kelly
Pauline
Merriam
Marie
Bryar
Honorine
Clement
The
Herbert
Buckstone
Margot
Justine
Madame
1920.
CHARACTERS
Laurent
Laplace
The
Maid
23,
Fred
Robert
Shifter
by
19.
David
Belasco.
Bickel
Roland
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
"MISS
A
in
cotpedy
Pemberton
three
by
acts
the
at
LULU
CAST
Gale, produced
by Brock
Theater, New
York, December
1920.
CHARACTERS
Ix)is
Herbert
Deacon
Neil
Jack
Louise
Deacon
Cornish
Closrer
Bohn
Hale
Beth
Yarden
Willard
Robertson
Bri'^ham
Royce
Deacon
Ninian
Shore
William
E. Holden
Catherine
Calhoun
Doucet
Carroll
McComas
Larkin
Bett
Mrs.
Diana
Deacon
Bett
Bobby
415
BETT"
Deacon
Dwight
Ina
Lulu
OP
YORK
Zona
Belmont
27,
Monona
NEW
SYNOPSIS:
Act
I.
Scene
The
Deacon's
I
Dining
Room.
Scene
The
Same.
Ten
2
Later.
Act
IL
Days
Scene
The
Deacon's
Front
I
Porch.
A Month
Later.
Scene
The
'i he Following
Same,
2
Scene
Evening.
3
The
Same.
A
Week
Later.
Act
III.
Cornish's
Music
Store.
Time
The
Present.
Place
The
Middle-class.
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
Staged
In
the
by
"
Brock
Pembcrton.
household
of
Dwight
and
Ina
middle-west,
folks,
Bett,
spinster
and
sister,works
practically for her board
keep. Ninian
Deacon,
visits his brother
"worldly"
a
Dwight and a little patronizman,
'This
Lulu.
to
the
Deacons
greatly amuses
up
ingly_makes
in a spirit of levity Dwight
and
reads
Deacon
solemnly
a
part
of the
to
them
and
civil-marriage ceremony
they as solemnly
him.
Then
remembers
answer
that, being
suddenly
Dwight
the
Lulu
Ninian
in
and
village magistrate.
effect, legally
are,
married.
takes
Lulu
tour
Ninian, being "game,"
on
wedding
a
to
there
month
when
he
denly
sudSavannah,
Georgia.
are
a
They
that
he
wife
remembers
somewhere
in
already has one
Seattle.
Lulu
the
Deacons
and
to
returns
drudgery, frankly,
adventtu-e, unfortunate
defiantly glad of her marital
though it
the
attitude
her
of
she
is about
Exasperated
relatives,
was.
by
the
when
leave
with
Ninian
Deacons
to
returns
proof that his
Lulu
is triumphant.
first 'svife is dead, and
middle-class, small-town
"HER
A
musical
comedy
produced
by
in
acts
two
Nora
Bayes
December
PRINCIPALS
Bayes
Florence
Jerome
Morrison
Bruner
Mrs.
FAMILY
York,
Nora
Deacon,
Lulu
Deacon's
TREE"
by Al
at
Weeks
the
27,
and
"Bugs"
Lyric Theater, New
1920.
ENGAGED
Al.
Roberts
Thelma
Randall
Carlton
Sisters
Baer,
BEST
THE
4i6
Julius
OF
PLAYS
Allan
Mossman
Earl
Hassard
by
Short.
SHOW
"PASSING
1921"
OF
by Harold
Atteridge,
twenty-six scenes
Shubert
Lee
and
music
by
J.
J.
Schwartz,
produced
by Jean
December
Winter
New
at the
York,
Garden,
29,
1920.
revue
in
two
and
acts
ENGAGED
PRINCIPALS
Howard
Rosalie
Marie
and
Eugene
Dressier
Harry
Watson
Helen
Ina Hayward
Janet Adair
Irving O'Hay
Dolly Hackett
Emily
Willie
Johnny
Grace
Ruth
Harold
Theo
in
operetta
produced
three
by
New
CAST
CHARACTERS
OF
Arthur
Charles
Percy
William
C.
C.
Peachum
Lena
Nonny
"
Act
3
"
Gang;
Women
of
the
Town
I.
Peachum's
House.
Act
A
Tavern.
Near
Scene
Newgate.
A Street.
III.
Scene
Scene
i
2
The
Condemn'd
Period
Hold.
1728.
Act
"
"
"
Nelis
Roseli
Lock
Bartlett
Edith
Trapes
SYNOPSIS:
Lewis
Maitland
Dora
Diver
Scene
Heather
Eville
Sylvia
Peachum
Lockit
Macheath's
Scene
Heming
Beggar
Drawer
Diana
Wynn
Magrath
Alfred
Filch
Polly
Lucy
Jenny
Murray
Frederick
and
Austin,
Gay
by Mr.
Greenwich
the
at
Hopkins
Village
York, December
27,
1920.
Lockit
Macheath
Mrs.
Keeshon
Mills
OPERA"
Peachum
The
Berkes
Mellette
Miles
acts
Arthur
Theater,
Mellette
Zambouni
BEGGAR'S
"THE
An
Wilkinson
Dudley
Vance
Staged
Edwards
Wilson
Henriette
Stewart
Betty
Bryan
Ray
Morgan
Frank
Tannen
Una
Fleming
Donald
Sawyer
Tom
1920-1921
2
"
"
II."
gate.
New-
Newgate.
PLAYS
revival
Imported
in
PRODUCED
of
London.
NEW
eighteenth-century "hit,"
an
with
IN
its
Its
English
American
following
cast
reception
YORK
written
by John
considerable
Gay.
success
lukewarm.
but
was
417
"DIPP'RENT"
A
drama
in
by Eugene
Players at the
York, February
two
acts
Provincetown
CAST
Captain
Caleb
OF
O'Neill, produced
by
Theater, New^j
4,
1921.
CHARACTERS
Williams
James
Light
Mary
Blair
Lincoln
Eugene
Bmma
Crosby
Jack Crosby
Captain John Crosby
MacAteer
Alan
Alice
Rostetter
Elizabeth
Brown
Mrs.
Crosby
Harriet
Williams
Alfred
Rogers
Benny
Emma
learns
being
affairs
the
on
eve
"diff'rent"
with
Iden
Thompson
Charles
Ellis
Rogers
Crosby,
the
the
Princess
engaged
of
their
from
to
that
wedding
other
Captain
marry
men,
as
Caleb
Williams,
of
captain, instead
believed, has had his
the
she
'
native
breaks
She
her
girls of the south
seas.
and
for
the
she
thirty
fights against
mating
engagement
years
instinct
of her
Then
she
weakly and
sex.
pathetically throws
herself
the head
of the town
rounder.
at
Captain Caleb, overhearing
confession
of love to the youth, hangs
her
himself, and
their
lives,
Emma,
feeling responsible for the tragedy of both
also resorts
of
self-destruction
to
expiation.
by way
CHAMPION"
"THE
in three
comedy
by
Thomas,
produced
Theater, New
farcial
CAST
Jane
Brockington
William
Burroughs
Antoinette
OF
Thomas
Harris
January
Louden
at
3,
and
the
CHARACTERS
Beaum'ont
Fuller
Elliott
Arthur
Frank
Westerton
Gerald
Galton
Ann
Gordon
Grant
Desiree
A.
Longacre
1921.
Rosalind
Mary
Lord
York,
by
H.
Lucy
Burroughs
Burroughs
Burroughs
John
Burroughs
George
David
Burroughs
Elizabeth
Lady
acts,
Sam
Hamer
Andrews
Burby
Mitchell
Stempel
E.
THE
41 8
PLAYS
BEST
OF
1920-1921
Robert
Simmons
Mr.
Mr.
Earl
Marquis
Baron
Lee
Harold
Allen
Howard
Horace
Harroween
of
Williamson
Robert
Mooney
Coykendall.
of Chuffleigh
Mayor
Halloway
of Knotley
Frank
Smith
Cooper
Ayrton
Robert
Warwick
Henry
A.
SYNOPSIS:
Act
I. "Late
Afternoon.
Act
III.
A
Few
Act
Morning.
Action
of the Play
Occurs
at the Present
Home
in the Small
Room
of the Burroughs
Forrest.
Staged
by Sam
England.
Following
II.
The
"
Later.
Days
"
Kaye
P.
Williams
Tom
in
Time
The
Living
of JCnotley,
the
Town
from
his English home,
having run
Burroughs,
away
"Gunboat
Williams," wins the lightand, as
weight
of the world.
pugilisticchampionship
Retiring from the
in for
to Congress.
politics and- is elected
ring, he goes
Eight
later
he
revisits
his
old
in
His
home
father
is
England.
years
William
settles
in
America
when
disown
his
about
to
father's
calf and
son
makes
neighborhood
wins
second
turns
to
aristocratic
the
the
of
prize-fighting career,
time.
But
the
of the
hero
resentment
learns
he
"champion"
pride. Burroughs
as
Lady Elizabeth
society
and
the
the
snobbish
on
gorges
of
is
fatted
bride.
"ERMINIE"
A
comic
with
in
opera
revisions
produced
Marc
by
the
under
William
acts, book
three
Famum
York,
CAST
and
Connolly,
direction
at
the
January
OF
lyrics by Harry
music
George C.
Park
Theater,
of
3,
192
de
Eugene
Pomvert
de
Brabazon
Marcel
Captain
Warren
Delauney
de
Malchien
Adrian
E. John
Brissac
Morgan
Kennedy
John
Benedict
John
Enninie
Princess
de
Gramponeur
Marcel
Act
I.
Courtyard
The
Ballroom.
Act
Charles
C. Fais.
"
"
by
Williams
Alice
Rosamond
of
III.
the
"
The
Reed
Douglas
Weathersby
Angela
SYNOPSIS:
Act
II.
H.
E.
Irene
Jennie
Javotte
Staged
Leasing
Richard
Sergeant
Cerise
Marie
Proctor
Madge
Dufois
Simon
Vicomte
New
1.
Francis
Wilson
De Wolf
Hopper
Francis
Lxeb
Alexander
Clark
Ravennes
Chevalier
Paulton,
Jakobowsld,
Tyler and
CHARACTERS
Cadeux
Marquis
by
Hanlon
Warde
Whiteside
Lion
d'Or.
Corridor.
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
NEW
"TRANSPLANTING
A
French
at
CAST
Jeannette
OF
and
by de Piers
Caillavets,
under
the
tion
direcproduced
H.
Marshall
Benjamin
York, January 3, 1921.
CHARACTERS
Aubrin
Bernard
Jean
Bigoire
Winifred
Richard
Barbee
George
Gaston
Aubrin
Margaret
Lawrence
Arthur
Byron
Charmeuil
Abbe
Jocas
George Graham
Forrest
Robinson
Albert
Marsh
Pierre
Madeleine
Katherine
Ramsey
Madame
Melcourt
SYNOPSIS:
Comte
de
Staged
son,
farmer's
to
her
but
to
have
the
been
Pyrenees
of
and
himself,
with
in
in
"
old
from
the
and
House
Languedoc,
A
Room
in
III.
Same
"
Act
citizen.
twenty,
gradually
comte
Room
the
as
First
House
Act
I.
little tired
boulevards
the
of
Foothills
and
forty-
at
become
will
his
legitimatize
brought
by a
up
the
in the
He
finds
Pyrennes.
boy engaged
the
Meeting
girl visiting a neighboring farm.
lad
family
girl,the
II.
grown
"retire"
useful
attractive
an
Larsac,
to
Living
"
Act
Pyrenees.
de
three, determines
and
respected
natural
I.
Village of Lannemezan,
Larsac,
Paris.
Arthur
Byron.
by
Comte
The
Act
Bernard,
of the
Jean
Standing
Lee
Olga
Moree
John
Kathryn
Keys
Vervier
Anglin
Jess Sidney
Evelyn
Chard
Catherine
Naima
Duval
Comte
de Larsao
Lucy
419
JEAN"
in three
comedy
acts
by Hallem
Thompson,
of
Arthur
and
Byron
the
Cort
New
Theater,
adapted
YORK
she
who
has
to
realize
comes
him.
with
calls
back,
him
girl
transplanted
to
he
He
that
seeks
and
Paris
been
the
"
he
is in love
honestly
son,
elects
Jean
to
"
remain
to
with
draw,
with-
who
was
in
the
sweetheart.
another
"PAGANS"
tragedy
Max
R.
in
three
Wilner
Anthony,
produced by
by Charles
Princess
the
at
S. Romberg
Theater,
York, January
1921.
4,
acts
and
New
CAST
OF
CHARACTERS
Bill Pratt
Barlow
James
Harold
Vermilye
Frederic
Burt
Doctor
Gregory
Elise
Northcote
David
Regina
Glassford
Wallace
42
Mrs.
Northcote
When
Act
York,
Same
Northcote,
she
I.
refuses
to
Richard
"
Act
November.
The
"
Richard
Fischer
Alice
Helen
Ware
Shildkraut
Joseph
Morelli
SYNOPSIS:
III.
1920-1921
Macknight
Judith
Mme.
Richard
New
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
II.
Northcote
One
"
Night.
Staged
by
artist,
meets
and
him
marry
first
Later.
Act
Harrison.
Bertram
loves
in
Sylvia
Elsie, who
marries
he
him
Studio,
's
Week
of his
hurt.
Paris.
happens
Elsie
is
girloffering
cure
loving
Richard
is slowly dying when
his physician
impossible, and
him.
sends
for Sylvia to save
a
Sylvia has become
great opera
her
her lover's
to save
singer, yet she is willing to give up
career
genius to the world.
Elsie, however, is unwilling to turn Richard
chance.
to
over
her, begging
pitifully for a second
Sylvia
to
be
the
to
but
reluctantly withctaws
Richard
and
"WAKE
in
comedy
produced
three
and
Elmer
L. Rice,
Hughes
H.
Harris
the
Miller
at
Henry
Theater,
York, January
17, 1921.
New
Jonathan
Marion
Helen
Junior
Peggy
JONATHAN!"
Hatcher
by
acts
Sam
by
UP,
dies.
Blake
Blake
Blake
Charles
Holt
Heam
Lois
Bartlett
Nadia
Gary
Donald
Cameron
Blake
Bernard
Randall
Brent
Douglas
Fiske
Helen
Frank
Blake
Blake
Chippy
Dalton
Mrs.
Fleming
Ward
Howard
Lang
Freddie
Goodrow
Edith
Fitzgerald
Adam
West
'ean
Picard
ennie
i;
SYNOPSIS:
Roadside
A
in
Prologue
the
Country.
Five
o'clock
Christmas
Eve.
Acts
I., II., and
on
III.
The
Living
Room
in Mrs.
Blake's
Near
House,
Village, on
a
the Same
Evening.
A
Moment's
Interval
Between
Acts
I.
"
"
and
II.,
Harrison
an
Grey
Hour
Between
Fiske.
Jonathan
Blake,
but
making
money,
the
homeless
Marion
seeks
children
captain
his
and
wife,
reconciliation.
regard
him
for
none
husband
Blake,
Acts
as
of
II.
of
He
discovers,
of
with
love,
a
family.
refused
sort
Staged
finds
has
III.
industry
making
father
and
to
live
to
his
genius
himself
with
two-legged
by
For
him.
dismay,
bear
and
fifty
at
ten
Now
for
years
he
that
that
his
he
PLAYS
cannot
bribe
even
they prefer
as
boy,
Adam
had
first to
place
in
his
failure.
into
loving
West, an
Jonathan's
been
from
the
rival
and
war
YORK
him.
The
in four
Marion's
for
visiting the
produced
by
John
New
Luther
Golden
York,
CAST
"
Wabur
Blakes.
Reed
the
at
January
17,
Jonathan
his
to
J. K.
Hutchinson
Jackson
Peck
Renard
Mart
B.
Robert
Camilla
Grace
G.
James
Heisey
Fischer
Crtune
Rue
La
Morton
Hamilton
Hale
Frick
Max
Robert
Lowe
T. Kodama
Moore
Baker
Clarence
Quail
Guy
Eula
Maid
lapse of
for
Home
Prentice
A
New
II.
Studio,
to
lowered
denote
(Curtain
Later.
Year
A
ing
DressScene
A Theater
III.
Act
i
days.)
An
Scene
Staged by Winchell
Apartment.
2
'Act
and
City.
York
Conway
Wm.
Pianist
SYNOPSIS:
ten
Room.
confess
Hamilton,
Theater,
Price
N.
George
Spelvin
George
Artistic
rightful
CHARACTERS
OF
Mrs.
Carney
Blair
April
Turner
Anthony
Edgar
Craig
Shelly Willard
Bean
Manny
Dudley
Now
1.
192
Lawton
Joseph
who,
Hale
and
Republic
Oglevie
Herbert
Robert
Gordon
hand.
father
ME"
by
acts
of
sort
back
bluster, then to bribe his way
to
is finally forced
neglected family, but
he is put
Then
probation.
on
light comedy
421
literary man,
unsuccessful
"DEAR
NEW
IN
them
is Adam
is back
tries
his
PRODUCED
The
Failures.
Literary
"
Amos
Act
"
"
"
"
Smith.
April
Blair,
who
had
passion
living at
for
herself
writing
letters
Prentice
Home
Me,"
was
her father
when
her father
with
for Artistic
and
Literary Failures
Comes
maid-of-all-work.
of
died.
a new
April stayed on as a sort
interest
He
takes an
inmate
is seedy, but young.
day who
one
without
he is through, and
Before
in April, also in the home.
April as a musical-comedy
anyone's knowing
why, he establishes
"Dear
addressed
star
himself
he
all the
and
as
marries
the
other
son
April.
failures
of the
man
as
the
successful
who
Amos
men.
established
Then
the
he
home.
reveals
Also
PLAYS
BEST
THE
422
GREEN
"THE
A
four
in
melodrama
William
by
the
at
OP
CHARACTERS
Arliss
George
F.
Simpson
Herbert
Waring
Olive
Wyndham
Cyril Keightley
Ivan
Crespin
Antony
Lucilla
Basil
Dr.
Traheme
Denis
Cardew
Lieut.
The
The
An
SYNOPSIS:
Morning.
page
by
comedy
"
"
The
"
Temple
in
Palace
Raja's
Thursday
The
Raja's
Friday
Snuggery.
The
Pavilion.
Saturday
Evening.
the
Region
Beyond
Himalayas.
IMPORTANCE
in
three
OP
acts
at
the
BEING
Oscar
by
Bramhall
January,
CAST
OF
Worthing
J. P
Moncrieff
Algernon
Rev.
Canon
Chasuble,
EARNEST"
Wilde,
Playhouse,
20,
Butler
Edwin
D.D
Gwendolen
Cardew
Cecily
Miss
Prism
Granville
Helen
Link
Eleanor
Martin
Fairfax
Mabel
revival
unimportant
of the
"JOHN
in
three
Guild
by
acts
the
at
CAST
Ace
Smart
Rogers
Oscar
Wilde
Frenyear
comedy.
HAWTHORNE"
David
OF
Liebovits, produced
Garrick
January
Smart
Phoenix
Hollins
Dexter
Mathews
Charlotte
Hon.
Joe
Laura
B.
J. Cleaneay
Theater
Butla:
Davenport
Alvin
Bracknell
Lady
by
York,
Strawbridge
Frank
Lane
Henry
New
CHARACTERS
Merriman
tragedy
revived
1921.
John
noon.
After-
the
Ames.
Winthrop
Davenport
An
Nowell
Thursday
124.
"THE
A
III.
Act
IV.
Remote
"
Leonard
Colman
Helen
I.
Room
"
Act
Evening.
Staged
II.
Ransome
David
A.
Ronald
Act
Act
See
Herbert
Priest
High
Priest
Temple
Ayah
Place
by
i8, 1921.
of Rukh
The
Raja
Watkins
Major
Archer, produced
New
Theater,
York,
Booth
January
CAST
1920-1921
GODDESS"
acts
Ames
Winthrop
OF
24,
Theater,
192
New
York,
1.
CHARACTERS
Eugene
Ordway
Robert
Babcock
Muriel
Stan-
Edgar
Stehli
by
the
PLAYS
Tim
PRODUCED
IN
YORK
NEW
Farrell
.
John
George
Hawthorne
Acrobat.
1st
and
Harlan
Jacob Weiser
Lian
Stephana
Macey
Camile
Pastorfield
Sara
Pienin
Another
Girl
Phil Boyerson
Staged
by
and
being
body
a
run
turns
she
suffer
Moeller.
the
stings
owned
farm
love
his
with
temptation
love.
or
He
unrequited
stays, and,
kills him.
He
buries
the
by the husband,
in the cellar, but
when
the law
begins to close in he makes
for the hills,taking the guilty wife with
him.
The
woman
again to her religion and tries to convert
her lover.
When
the
it can't
be
promise
that
done
melodrama
in
Farrere
and
the
by
she
will
York,
CAST
at
January
29,
192
Commander
Lieutenant
Captain
Chief
Surgeon
Dagome
1.
CHARACTERS
OF
Cyril Scott
Dale
Margaret
Jeanne
Eagels
Hunter
Paget
Dulec
Fargasson
Edmund
Robert
Birodat
Ribot
B.
Due
Le
of the
Clerk
Commander
Warwick
Thome
Becker
Huntingdon
Figman
Max
Court
Kenneth
Maclyn
John
Mowbray
Rear
de I'Estissac
Admiral
de Lutzen
Rear
Admiral
de Challemont
Rear
Admiral
de
Captain
SYNOPSIS:
the
Eve
of
Lowe
Robert
Harold
de
'
Orde
Knox
."
d'Artelle
de-Corlaix
Engineer
produced
Theater,
Century
the
Alice
'
authorities
adapted
Morton,
d'Armes,"
Brambourg
Perlet
de Corlaix
Eugenie
Lieutenant-Commander
the
him.
forgive
WATCH"
Veille
Shubert
to
over
iVIichael
"La
Nepoty's
New
Lieutenant
God
by
acts
Messrs.
him
NIGHT
THE
three
turns
and
she
"IN
A
of
the
in
discovered
sees
with
Kent
Edgar
Philip
John Hawthorne,
a young
atheist, employed
on
by a tight-fistedreligious fanatic, finds himself
Either
he must
employer's wife.
from
run
away
stay
Hana
Franklyn
Man.
Helen
A
Girl
Frenger
Warren
KrecV
William
Franklin
Bert Young
Acrobat
Judee
Wood
Philip
t'Kirea.
423
War
Walter
in
the
"
Webster
Walker
J. Morrison
Jefferson
Murray
Loubat
Act
Lawton
Arbuckle
The
French
Harbor
of
Fleet
Toulon.
Scene
Mobilized
Act
on
The
IL
Lieutenant
"
The
Same
i
Night.
Alma
Sit Sea.
Cleared
for Action.
Scene
Decks
d'Artelle's
"Cabin.
The
The
The
Court
Martial.
III.
The
Act
2
Bridge.
Council.
Staged
by Frederick
Stanhope.
of the
Hall
War
.
"
"
"
from
section
of
His
young
stay
later
Corlaix,
de
lying
Alma
at
in
anchor
birthday
and
before
locked
in the
wife
the
young
fleet is to
her
with
aboard
boat
Eugenie
declared
France
war
harbor
the
in honor
party
is
commander,
Commander
Notified
the
midnight,
without
their knowing.
tries to get his guests ashore
under
his
fancied
neglect of her, agrees
wife, smarting
Eugenie
being given.
of
Corlaix
which
is
fleet
1920-1921
OF
on
cruiser
the
Aboard
de
day
the
battleship
her
of Toulon.
to
before
night
The
PLAYS
BEST
THE
424
lover
they
cabin
the
of
sail at
until
boat.
later
know
it the
cruiser
of
friend.
The
her
There
is at
Alma
is
is
sea,
is sunk
the
de
no
with
by
Corlaixs
German
lover
the
are
"
"THE
A
in three
comedy
George at the
NEW
MORALITY"
by Harold
Playhouse, New
acts
Ivor Jones
Betty
Jones
Geoffrey
Belasis, K.
Alice
Meynell
Chapin, produced
by Grace
York, January
30,
1921.
Warburton
Colonel
E.
Wallace
Gamble
Grace
C
Ernest
Kemble
Lilian
Wister
George
Lawford
Cooper
Grossmith
Lawrence
John
Wooton
Lesceline
Kathleen
Gray
Andrus
Action
of the Play
Takes
Place
the Jones's Houseboat,
on
Boat
The
Wister's
the
Hyacinth,
Merry
Near
The
Time
in from
Being
By.
Occupied
Mischief,
in a Record
Summer.
to
8 o'clock
Evening
on
an
4:40
The
The
houseboat
Wister
neighbors on the
are
Betty Jones and Muriel
bit
Muriel's
resents
of
spitfire,
a
Betty, a
flirtingwith
Mr.
A
which
Jones and
frankly tells her so.
quarrel results
of
threatens
the
achieve
for
criminal
to
smt
importance
a
libel,
but is finally settled
of court.
out
Thames.
"NEAR
A
melodrama
H.
in four
Wellman
acts
at
the
York,
CAST
Sheriff
Phil
Mike
"Tod"
Yeager
McKenzie
BARBARA"
SANTA
Wilson
by Willard
Mack, produced
by William
Village Theater, New
Greenwich
January
OF
31,
1921.
CHARACTERS
Howard
Jobeph
Tniesdell
F.
Sweeney
Charles
Abbe
PLAYS
PRODUCED
NEW
IN
YORK
Nocka
425
T. Tamamato
Luis
Alberni
Ylario
Ysobel
Zola
Bud
Mrs.
Jenks
Royal
Bill Trainer
Bill Trainor
Mr.
The
Four
Near
House,
Talma
Stout
Clara
Joel
^rack
Willard
Acts
of This
Play Occur
Santa
CaUfornia.
Barbara,
in
the
Trainor
Ranch
In
his losses
his wife, Bill
trying to conceal
at
poker from
California
involved
becomes
in complicaTrainor, a
ranchman,
tions
which
he owes
point to his having shot the man
to whom
debt
of
size
which
considerable
and
he
is
a
gambling
secretly
off.
The
the
trying to pay
as
deepens
plot builds,
mystery
but
is finally cleared
and
the gambling
husband
forgiven.
up
"THE
An
annual
Jean
MIDNIGHT
in
two
1921"
parts;
and
ENGAGED
Gladys
Walton
Ted
Arthur
J. Harold
Donnelly
Murray
Jessica Brown
Florence
Tot
La
Lowe
Clifford
Bessie
Dora
Corinne
by
of
series
of
annual
the
Danse
February
PRINCIPALS
The
Wheaton
Anna
White
Princess
Virginia Bell
Edythe
Frank
Staged
de
8, 1921.
ENGAGED
Griffith
Kathlene
Twins
Herbert
Jack
Deer
Martyn
Hoey
Hanley
Shaw
Oscar
Annette
Bade
Baker
Herbert
Famum
by Edward
produced
by Plorenz
New
York,
Follies,
revues;
Eleanor
Shaw
Fairbanks
FROLIC"
O'CLOCK
Ziegfeld, Jr., at
Oscar
Dakla
J. J. Shubert.
"ZIEGFELD
third
Sales
Pauhne
Duby
Staged
Marguerite
Kitty Kelly
Dooley
J. Francis
Cook
Petite
Ada
Forman
Cleveland
Bronner
Alemia
Allen
Rayfield
Qualters
John
Lorraine
Olga
Guiran
John
by
Lew
PRINCIPALS
The
OF
Schwartz
and
ROUNDERS
Royce.
Hoey
".
THE
426
PLAYS
BEST
"THE
A
musical
music
Goetzl
Anselm
by
Ambassador
of
Theater,
February
CAST
lyrics by William
Carey
Anselm
produced
by
and
Goetzl,
direction
the
under
OP
1920-1921
GIRL"
ROSE
acts, book
in two
comedy
Duncan,
OF
ii,
Lee
Shubert
New
York,
CHARACTERS
David
Donay
Felice
Lyons
Wynn
Virginia
Telicot
Henri
Count
Adelle
Du
Ambrose
Fred
Hillebrand
Stewart
Baird
Marcella
Swansea
Guise
de
Flamme
La
Jeanne
Verne
Beatrice
Lollypop
Victor
Nadine
Louis
de la Roche
Marquis
MignonLatour
"
The
Purcell
Withee
Mabel
Zoe
Rose
Dancer
Present.
Staged
Latour, threatened
in
the perfumery
Bamett
Rolando
Florence
Short.
Hassard
by
Camp
Simon
Charles
Bankoff
Gypsy
Swanson
Shep
Pettibone
Oswald
Mignon
Darling
Helen
Suzette
Louise
Marie
Time
Darling
Beatrice
Elizabeth
Denise
Andrada
Marjorie
Gateson
May
Boley
Fleurette
Filipe
the
1921.
Pilipard
Mme.
Colette
at
Aleta
Gast
with
"PEG
revival
of
produced
by
the
A.
O'
play
L.
in
MY
three
Erlanger
at
February
CAST
OF
HEART"
acts
by
the
Cort
14,
1921.
J. Hartley
Manners,
Theater, New
York,
CHARACTERS
"Jerry"
A.
E.
Alanc
Hawkes
Brent
Tarvis
'
George
Thos.
"Peg"
A.
George
Ames
Riddel
Braidon
Sydenham
"
Michael
Chichester
Mrs.
Ethel
Maid
Matthews
Percy
Greta
Maud
Kemble
Michael
Milton
Mildred
Laurette
Cooper
Post
Taylor
PLAYS
PRODUCED
SYNOPSIS:
IN
NEW
YORK
427
Act
I.
The
of Peg.
Act
11.
Coming
of Peg.
Act
III.
Peg o' My
Heart.
The
of the
in the
comedy
Uving
of
room
passes
Mrs.
Chichester's
house
in Scarborough,
Eng"
"
The
Rebelhon
"
entire
action
Kegal
iB,ad.,
Villa,
and
Margaret
do-well
shall
of her
in
as
cousin
from
Sir
has
and
scandal
drama
in
of
training
goodness
of
win
to
to
In
excessively
and
uncle
an
of
to
as
that
is taken
and
aunt,
her
the
boy,
member
she
save
herself
desires
which,
England
heart
ne'er-
as
who
aris'-.ocratic
for
I.
America
to
away
will
is entitled.
her
love
is
catty
of the
Gerald.
"THE
run
and
she
Acts
Connolly, daughter
by the
by her
guest
a
attractive
Heart)
culture
family,
wit
One
month
lapses between
between
Acts
II. and
III.
who
the
paying
her
My
England
obtain
by
o'
son
father's
a
able
(Peg
younger
back
to
is sent
she
early summer.
A mght
passes
II.
WHITE
VILLA"
three
acts
"The
from
by Edith
Ellis, adapted
Age"
by Karen
The
Michaelis, produced
by
Players Fellowship in conjunction with A. H. Woods
at the Eltinge Theater, New
York, February
14, 1921.
Dangerous
CAST
Richard
Dr.
OP
CHARACTERS
Lindtner
Edward
Rothe
Director
Lillie
Elsie
Schlegel
~oergen
I
Dothea
Lucile
Wellman
Olive
Frank
Malthe
Doris
Anita
eanne
Torp
Nils
Elsie
leave
him.
world
from
the
she
begins
who
have
John
Watson
Oliver
Morgan
Kenyon
Rothe
Clements
married
Richard
Lindtner
to
Lindtner,
financial
and
suddenly achieves
independence
years,
to
Reese
Wood
Fisher
Philip
Roth
Lindtner
Magna
Ellis
Edward
had
also
to
been
She
of
long
builds
and
love
that
villa
few
and
company,
in
much
changed
After
men.
for
herself
with
he
on
months
sends
island
an
of
for
for
twenty
determines
and
retires
glorious solitude
young
architect
her.
is
to
make
up
with
her
OP
PLAYS
BEST
THE
428
1920-1921
"MACBETH"
of
revival
parts, produced
tragedy in three
Shakespearean
the
at
Apollo Theater, New
Hopkins
York,
February
17, 1921.
the
Arthur
by
CAST
OF
CHARACTERS
Crawley
J. Sayre
E.
J. Ballantine
Duncan
Malcolm
Donalbain
Macbeth
Banquo
Alfred
Shirley
Hogarth
Jaap
Herbert
Bernard
Savage
Chappell
Haviland
Mary
Hughes
Washburn
John
Cunningham
Guy
Lennox
Ross
Menteith
Lionel
Angus
Caithness
Pleance
Siward
Seyton
Boy
Old
Winston
Shrubb
Albert
Frank
Sylvester
Black
Stuart
Cecil
Lawrence
Man
Porter
First
Murderer
Sergeant
Macbeth
Lady
Macduff
Lady
Julia
Helen
play
is presented
in three
second
the
flight of Malcolm
interval
the
following
Arthur
Hopkins.
"BLUE
musical
and
comedy
parts,
and
in
book
music
CAST
Goldberg
Dawson
Ripley
Fifi
Steinberg
Brett
Bobby
Peter
Dorothy
Van
Dam
Manners
Higgins
OF
by
Staged
scene.
EYES"
acts,
Leon
Mr.
Kitty
two
banquet
Fellows
with
the first interv^
Donalbain,
and
the
lyrics by
and
I.
Gordon,
by
Rose
Meyers, produced by Morris
New
York,
Theater,
February 21,
and
Z.
Lindsey
Nina
Doris
following
Clemens
Sargent
Hutchison
Eleanor
Witch
Witch
The
Arthur
Robbins
Marguerita
Gentlewoman
Witch
First
Second
Third
Vincent
Henry
Harry
Messenger
Chandler
Helen
Doctor
An
Bloomer
Rajonond
Macduff
B.
at
the
Casino
1921.
CHARACTERS
Ralph
Andrew
Le
Komblum
Robbins
Tombes
Dorothy
Tierney
White
Philip
Ray
Raymond
Lew
MoUie
Delyle
Fields
King
Alda
Roy
PLAYS
Mr.
PRODUCED
IN
NEW
YORK
Manners
Mrs.
Car!
Manners
Leo
Bobby
down
by
see
believe
he
he
is
Van
Brett,
"
writer
of
in
Lexington
fascinate
him.
Bobby's
"count."
She
their
to
short
her
four
by
acts
New
Theater,
Willard
York,
OP
Marie
Joseph
Royal
Holding
Bloggs
SYNOPSIS:
Home
IV.
Staged
Night.
"
The
"
"
"
Apartment
Apartment.
of
Freeman
Holding.
The
Daly Apartment.
Daly
Willard
by
the
chief
of
he
as
master
crook
P. M.
o'Clock
crook, is permitted
will
Out
certain
recover
police is anxious
"professional investigator."
is
9
11
Dalys.
Weeks
Mack.
good-hearted
that
Barrett
of the
Three
Uptown
crafty but
the
promise
papers
revealed
II.
III.
Act
Night.
MuUane,
jail on
I.
Act
Act
Act
Later.
thief
Sweeney
Von
Maurice
Jimmie
M.
Warde
C. Stout
Waidron
Ethel
"
"
Chambers
Mike
Donlin
Willard
Mack
Howard
Truesdell
Powers
Rosie
Taxi
the
John
Sharkey
G. Sparks
John
Daly
Freeman
as
to
CHARACTERS
MuUane
Frank
certain
her
and
at
Mack,
produced
February
22,
1921.
Graham
"Silk"
calls
SILK"
Mooney
break
lead
father
run
such
Dorothy
Shirley
Johnnie
to
has
love.
Daly
"Snap"
"Silk"
who
companions
"Boots"
Next
Same
stories, is
When
tells
AS
CAST
Nellie
A.
Clifford
by
Dorothy Manners,
is hurt
true
are
melodrama
McGill
Dam
and
Manners'
Act
II.
The
Island.
Staged
"SMOOTH
A
o"
people
young
Langill
he,
for his daughter, invites
good match
to
Bobby
Neck.
Here
it transpires
that
place at Great
much
but
the
family is "bluffing" as
as
Bobby,
make
to
eager
his
country
Dorothy's
of
they
eyes
badly
that
Studio
"
impecunious
an
automobile
blue
how
I.
Square.
Neck,
Long
Great
Brett,
beautiful
to
Act
at
the
Frankel
Aline
Gramercy
Home
Brooke.
Linthicum
Judson
SYNOPSIS:
Ripley.
Eckstrom
Lotta
Stranger
Doyle.
Girl
Gypsy
429
of
to
get
jail
of the investigator, who
himself.
away
"Silk's"
is
criminati
infrom
skill
finally
BEST
THE
430
PLAYS
PIM
"MR.
A
in three
comedy
Gtaild
OF
BY"
Dudley
Dinah
Marden
with
July.
old
man,
the
Marden
Mr.
attending
much
of
an
stickler
fussy
burden
lawfully
not
but
bombshell
somewhat
the
for
and
of
his
Marden
at
Staged
by
passing
Mrs.
annulment
the
ever
having
horrified
is
for
and
of
laws
of
Mr.
Pirn
Fortunately,
passes
Marden
help materially in relieving Mr.
an
was
beUeved
been
household,
conventional
so
lived
for
Marden
five
years
is not
at
the
of
of
on
who
of
thought
the
StiU
marriage.
to attempt
England
is
by again and
at
the
by
letter
to
six years
has
in the
Marden
wife.
evasion.
to
Room
Morning
in
Day
in
Marden
woman
publicity
is too
absent-minded
an
is like
It
upon
worried,
on
first husband
Mr.
a
in the
ord
Harvey
Buckinghamshire,
stops
get a
adventure
to a friend.
recent
Recounting
a
he recalls
having met
gentleman
a
steamer,
dead.
British
Place
in
Marden's
placing
Mudie
Sanf
Moeller.
Pirn,
Australian
be
Takes
Buckinghamshire,
house
introduction
to
Westley
Peggy
Carraway
Mrs.
Povah
Erskine
Anne
Marden
Crews
Phyllis
Helen
Strange
Pirn
Carraway
Action
1921.
Digges
Leonard
Brian
The
28,
Hope
Laura
House,
Philip
Theatre
CHARACTERS
J. P
Olivia
Lady
The
Milne, produced by
New
York, February
A.
Theater,
CAST
Marden,
George
1920-1921
PASSES
A.
by
acts
Garrick
the
at
OF
his
all
the
he
any
able
worries.
"ROMANCE"
A
revival
epilogue
Shubert
of
the
by
at
Edward
the
Sheldon,
Playhouse,
CAST
Thomas
Cornelius
Susan
Miss
Mrs.
Mrs.
Miss
Armstrong
Van
Tuyl
Van
Tuyl
Armstrong
Rutherford
Frothingham
Frothingham
Mrs.
Grey
Miss
Snyder
Mr.
Fred
Livingston
Mr.
Harry
Putnam
Signora Vanucci
Baptiste
1 M,
in
comedy-drama
OP
New
three
acts,
prologue
produced
by
York, February
the
Messrs.
28,
192
CHARACTERS
Basil
Sydney
A. E.
Miriam
Anson
Elliott
Isabelle
Esther
Helen
Dorothy
Vema
Denise
Lynn
Frank
West
Lyon
Tracy
Chase
Wilkens
Morris
Pratt
Dawson
Florence
Short
Harold
Gwynn
1.
and
PLAYS
PRODUCED
NEW
IN
Francois
Frank
Gustave
Charles
Burroughs
David
Louis
YORK
Norman
Servant
Mr.
at
Margharita
Mme.
The
Prologue
in His
Bishop's
Library
About
Washington
o'clock
Square.
Newlo
Eve.
Act
I.
Over
Cornelius
Fifty Years
at
Ago
Year's
"
"
Van
Tuyl's
Act
II.
House,
The
"
Street.
The
Late
That
Brevoort
Afternoon
York
of
Italian
York.
fade
from
Lina
At
singer.
the
East
Evening.
Eighth
Library
Now
"
marrying
the
the
Again.
and
of
his
Bishop
youthful
back
present
Bishop, then
Cavalhrn, a young
of
the
own
the
climax
'6o's.
actress
an
story
the
his
the
to
the
New
of
rector
and
beautiful
infatuation
he
covers
dis-
her
fights valiantly to save
past
for them, Cavallini
sails
Realizing that happiness is not
terminatio
deeffect
is
fix
his
to
The
to
grandson
Europe.
upon
that
she
has
to
marry
had
Time
frotti
boy
loved
and
Bishop's
"
'70's, when
earlier
met
November
New
Year's
Eve.
III.
Act
Cavallini's
in
the
Apartment
Her
Farewell
Appearance
as
the
to
Rectory,
"
After
The
grandson
scenes
opera
of
New
"
relates
the
St. Giles'
away
his
The
romance.
soul.
Place
Avenue.
St. Giles'
Mme.
Epilogue
dissuade
Giles'
in
Study
House.
Midnight.
St.
58 Fifth
Night.
"Mignon."
of
Saunders
Doris
Keane
John
Cavallini
SYNOPSIS:
House
on
To
Hanauer
Frederic
Sims
William
Davis
Edward
Duane
VanlTuyl's
Rectory
the
at
Rolland
Romajio
Bertram
Eugene
Butler
431
and
the
actress.
"BRIDGES"
A
one-act
and
comedy
by Clare Kummer,
New
York,
Theater,
Judy
CAST
Wallie
Enid
Scene
Early
"
one-act
miniature
at
Parker
Five
"
Son,
o' Clock
Hogue
Gilmore
York
New
Downtown,
of
an
in
Afternoon
the
REHEARSAL"
CHOIR
produced
by Clare Kummer,
comedy
New
York,
Judy Theater,
musical
and
Punch
February
CAST
Alan
OF
28, 1921.
CHARACTERS
^P'" j^^^"
WilUam
Esmeralda
Rev.
1921.
Spring.
"THE
A
Puncli
Blackmer
Roland
Ruth
of
Office
About
"
Time
28,
Sidney
Breen
Birdsall
City.
the
at
CHARACTERS
OF
Jr
Parker,
Penfield
produced
February
Sallie
"
Wylie
"
Fisher
Stanley
Hewlett
PLAYS
BEST
THE
432
1920-1921
OF
Ellison
Mary
Lounsbery
James
Abigail
Amos
Enoch
Scene
Time
"
House.
of Esmeralda's
Room
Living
Eight
The
"
town.
o'Clock
of
Tuckerin the
Evening
Spring
Ago.
Long
ROBBERY"
"THE
A
Coupe
Walter
Kummer,
comedy
by Clare
and
York,
Judy Theater, New
one-act
CAST
the
at
produced
February
28, 1921.
CHARACTERS
OF
George
Fielding
Edie
Upton
Sidney
J. M.
Upton
Upton
Margaret
John
Scene
"
"
Spelvin
Gillmore
Ruth
Hamilton
Robert
Mrs.
of the
Room
Living
The
Street,
Seventy-sixth
Punch
Kerrigan
Alice
House
Time
Uptons'
City.
York
New
Blackmer
Chapin
West
on
About
"
Midnight.
LOVE"
"CHINESE
musical
miniature
produced
at
Punch
York,
CAST
Mo
Judy
February
28,
Chan
Ming
Wong
Hing
1921.
J. M.
Kerrigan
Ellison
Mary
tragedy
Conroy
Sallie
Dot
Stanley
So
Hi
Summer
in
and
"
James
Mo
Yen's
Afternoon.
Staged
by
"EYVIND
OP
Garden
iom:
of
acts
by
Meltzer
at
Johann
the
CAST
Bjorn
Ames
Gudfinna
OF
House.
Tea
W.
L.
Fisher
Willens
Howlett
Lounsbery
Time
"
Gilmore.
HILLS"
THE
February,
Halla
Kari
Ktunmer,
New
Theater,
CHARACTERS
OF
Fah
Foo
Scene
Clare
by
act
one
and
Yen
Mee
Ah
in
comedy
the
Sigurjonsson, produced
by
Village Theater,
Greenwich
1921.
CHARACTEP.S
Margaret
Wycherly
Arthur
Byron
Henry
Beatrice
Hohl
Beasly
Herbert
Moreland
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
YORK
NEW
Magnus
Roy
Oddiry
Gwendolyn
Sigrid
Raymond
Lloyd
Amgnm
A
District
Tota
"on
^;
on's
Judge
Charies
Neal
Bates
Elfin Finn
P.
Edward
Wife
T""'"
nuit^^^^
JonsChildren
Farm
A
Hand
First Peasant
Second
Peasant
Hills.
Act
in
place
Staged
IV.
I.
the
in
Frank
The
"
"
Iceland
by
J. Pardy
Beuerman
Hallem
Act
Near
Place
Resting
Begley
Russell
Helene
Eleanor
Johnson
Helen
Oloott
Edmond
Gus.
SYNOPSIS;
Servant's
Sheep
Hut
in
the middle
Bosworth
II.
Hall.
Act
Act
III.
action
Folds.
Rue
Piers
Tebeau
Guion
Marguerite
Shepherd Boy
La
433
the
Hills.
The
of the
Eighteenth
"
the
In
takes
"
Century.
Conroy.
an
eighteenth century is declared
tant
to a disbecause
of his theft
of a sheep.
his way
outlaw
Making
farm.
he is taken
in by a widow
who
a
owns
part of Iceland
she
finds him
out
She
falls in love
with
when
his crime
him, and
seclusion
live
in
follows
him
into
the
hills.
For
again
they
years
the
that
the
until finally, hounded
and
knowledge
by conscience
love
has
failed
of
their
them,
they
sustaining strength
great
An
walk
Icelandic
youth
into
out
of
blizzard
the
die.
to
PEOPLE"
"NICE
A
in four
comedy
Harris
the
at
by Rachel
acts
Klaw
Theater,
CAST
Hallie
Trevor
Theodora
Oliver
Scottie
Bankhead
Tallulah
Katherine
Cornell
Edwin
Leeds
arrangement
Wade
Mr.
Heyfer
York.
Gloucester
of
the
Evening
See
page
the
224.
"
The
Gloucester
Ames
Maynard
Gloucester
Apartment,
Act
in Spring.
Scene
the
Country.
I
Park
Evening
An
Scene
The
Later.
Personal
Months
Under
the
I.
in
Cottage
Following
Morning.
of
Weber).
Lawrence
Robert
The
the Next
Outside
L.
Frederick
Act
Avenue,
Huntley
Maddem
Merle
Frederick
Perry
with
SYNOPSIS:
New
Milham
Guy
Hugh
Wilbur
Rainsford
Margaret
Herbert
Gloucester
(By
Hensley
Larrimore
Francine
Gloucester
Comstock
Billy
2,
CHARACTERS
OF
Livingston
Baxter
Jones
Eileen
by Sam
produced
York, March
Crothers,
New
Day.
"
The
Scene
Next
Cottage.
and
Staged
Play
of Rachel
Supervision
"
Day.
II.
The
"
"
Daylight
Act
Afternoon.
Production
Crothers.
III.
"
"
Three
Made
1921.
H.
domestic
in
drama
three
CAST
Dr.
Dr.
wife
mental
to
his
several
her
and
word
Passes
Emile
Chautard.
scientist, married
Parisian
consolation
wife
to
may
carry
of the
their
come
senses
At
takes
both
to
agree
her
defies
he
wife
until
and
too-
physical and
lover
younger
her.
The
to
him.
upon
threatens
tragedy
to
Polk
Library
in the
Paris,
his
domestic
his young
and
in
junior, wearies
love
all-consuming
puts
impulse
as
by
years
for
turn
far
as
go
Staged
Feriaud,
tax
to
Action
The
Feriaud.
George
ardent
Wilson
Ethel
Pauline
SYNOPSIS:
of
1921.
Charles
Cherry
Winwood
Estelle
Brandon
Tynan
Harris
Lenore
Villiers
Henriot
Madame
Suzanne
by
Bijou
CHARACTERS
OF
Feriaud
Cartier
Paul
Madeleine
the
at
French
the
from
adapted
acts
Feriaud
Georges
Madame
threat
LOVE"
Baron
produced
by Henry
Baron,
March
New
York,
8,
Theater,
Henry
Dr.
1920-1921
OF
TYRANNY
"THE
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
434
at
doctor
the
be
her
him
mutually
forgiving.
HERO"
"THE
in three
comedy
Harris
at
by Gilbert
the Longacre
Theater,
acts
CAST
Andrew
Hester
Sarah
brother,
the
and
Andrew,
Foreign
hero.
Jr
Robert
bad
bear
to
in
1921.
Mitchell
Jetta
14,
March
Grant
Lane,
Lane
Roche
Sam
McDonell
Kathleen
Blanche
Frederici
Graham
Lucas
Lane
Lane,
girl
York,
H.
by
CHARACTERS
Lane
Oswald
Marthe
New
produced
Lane
Andrew
Oswald
OF
Emery,
the
burden
and
Legion
Returning
France
comes
from
of
home
father
his
his
out
Ames
Goudal
after
ing
wrong-
and
plodding
wrongdoing,
joins
of the
war
rated
deco-
he
but
to
home,
promises
reform,
in
trouble.
he
and
another
is
again
soon
Finally
girl
wrongs
about
with
the church
funds
when
to decamp
he dashes
into a
lives
the
of several
burning
kindergarten, saves
children, and
is
dies
hero.
But
brother
has
to
make
up
the
stolen
funds.
PLAYS
PRODUCED
"THE
SURVIVAL
in
tragedy
four
author
OP
by
acts
the
at
CAST
FITTEST"
by
Atkinson, produced
Village Theater, New
March
OF
4,
the
1921.
CHARACTERS
WiUard
Reid
Grant
Stewart
Balfour
William
Guere
Love
Le
George
^S}^:
Montague
Webster
John
Willard
Katherine
Nelson
Hall
Laura
Winifred
Lenihan
Roberts
Katherine
Lyons.
Little
Neighbor
Betty
A
435
".
Will
1"
THE
YORK
George
Greenwich
York,
Hemy
NEW
IN
John
Webster,
finds
and
human
himself
has
kingdoms"
musical
Woolf
in
comedy
two
Ballard
and
book
acts,
MacDonald,
Wilner
by
produced
Theater,
CAST
and
York,
New
common.
BIRDS"
"LOVE
A
in
much
and
lyrics by Edgar
music
15,
CHARACTERS
OF
Evelyn
Hal
Barrett
Sterling
O'Grady
Johnson
Vincent
,
Pat
Porter
Delaunois
Mme.
Mons.
Champvallon
Emire
Nehmid
Duckin
Harold
Attendant
Emilie
Velonka
Warrington
Lopez
Rooney
Gott
Lea
Mar
De
Ramsey
Harry
Mayo
Delaney
Patsy
Maid
's
Luce
Tom
Emilie
Tom
Knight
Eva
Fatima
Saki
Murray
Ellsworth
Grace
Hines
Elizabeth
E. Sullivan
James
Bent
Marion
Pat
Allene
Emir's
Greenwood
Edna
Charteris
Bronson
Mrs.
Charteris
Allene
Charteris
Bronson
Mr.
Mamie
Betty Mack
Cavanaugh
Elizabeth
O'Hara
Shopper
Mr.
Bold
Richard
A Shopper
Violet
Merely
Jennie
Apollo
1921.
Harwood
Arthur
the
at
Romberg
March
berg,
Rom-
Sigmund
by
Gieser
Lea
Dingle
Davenport
Sylvia Ford
,
Allen
SYNOPSIS:
for her,
To
rescued
in
to
runs
RIGHT
musical
on
Peck,
Producing
three
her
of
as
Arthur
Cadman
Valera
Valador
prospective
predicament
which
book
OF
Act
About
II.
"
by
Friends
I.
in
Montrose
F.
Spaulding
Elma
OfEce
Five
o'clock,
Tea
Garden
of
Decker
Walter
three
at
GHOST
Beach
Palm
Room
Living
o'Clock
the
Hotel,
noon
Afterof Anthony's
Same
Evening,
BETWEEN"
CAST
and
OF
Arthur
Laura
Glenn
Hunt
Jenkins
Walter
Nurse
Kathryn
Buxton
Lawrence,
New
CHARACTERS
Dillard
Brookes
John
Jerome
New
Summer.
prologue by Vincent
Street
Thirty-ninth
Theater,
York, March
22,
1921.
acts
the
"
Hope
Anthony
Stanton,
Saturday
Afternoon,
of
"
Act
HI.
Eleven
Wilson,
"THE
Produced
Mnnnell
Homes
Rapley
Carolyn
Thomson
Dolly
Connolly
Harry
Redding
Louis
Season,
Home,
Beach
Staged
Benham
Frank
-
Act
During
Dr.
is
Woolsey
Frank
City,
Ethel
Richard
she
CHARACTERS
Helen
SYNOPSIS:
Dr.
store.
ber
mem-
and
Messenger
comedy
department
Earle
Robert
A
Bootlegger
of Anthony's
One
selects
mother
GIRL"
acts,
CAST
Stanton
Anthony
Watkins
Henry
Freeman
John
Darcy
Barry
Dera
Darcy
Molly
Darcy
Palm
Alfred.
lyrics by Raymond
Gleerich
by
Percy Wenrich,
produced
by the
the
Times
at
Square
Theater,
Company
New
March
York,
15, 1921.
in
comedy
music
York
Fatima's
Carnival
"
Julian
Persia
to
"
man
floorwalker
away
"THE
A
the
marry
in
Salon
Persian
"
and
from
singer's harem,
for the grand finale.
time
Garden
MacGregor
the
Scene
Persian
Edgar
with
Scene
Scene
"
Lingerie
and
Stooking
"
Palace.
The
"
by
she
bass
the
II.
Duckin's
love
mother
Shop.
Fashionable
Home.
Act
refuses
in
being
escape
of
Staged
Charteris
Scene
"
1920-1921
OF
Charteris
the
of
Emir
Garden
Boudoir.
Scene
Night.
I.
Act
in
Department
AUene
PLAYS
BEST
THE
4-36
W.
Messinger
Byron
Walker
Anders
Brown
Keys
Bellis
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
YORK
NEW.
437
.
SYNOPSIS:
Apartment.
Home.
Hall
H.
of
dies.
her
"Two
his
her
years
for
privilege
She
of
"
Room
Room
in
Upstairs
Later.
Home.
Ethel
Brookes's
in Doctor
Dillard's
Act
II.
Front
Entrance
Six
Months
Later.
Act
Minutes
Later.
Staged by
"
Five
become
she
her.
When
the
his
the
again
the
wife
calls Dr.
year,
refuses
of
to
courage
dead
only.
name
confess
in
it
to
or
man,
name
Which
love
with
and
he
and
his
she
does.
home.
each
propose
fesses
con-
him, because
he begs the
marry
of his
protection
in
doctor
to
the
desperately
are
the
meets
she
memory
her
they
After
later
giving
later
has
bride
to
of
neither
II.
husband.
love
may
A
Years
Dillard's
"
Act
as
devotion
months
Prologue
I.
Gilmore.
Brookes,
bedside
of
Same
"
W.
Ethel
Over
Doctor
III-
Act
Two
Six
but
other,
readjustment
of their
"MARY
historical
An
by
in
drama
WilUam
STUART"
Jr., at
Harris,
the
March
CAST
Ritz
21,
OF
produced
John Drinkwater,
New
York,
Theater,
by
act
one
192
1.
CHARACTERS
Charles
Hunter
John
Stuart
Mary
Mary
Beaton
David
Randolph
SCENE:
Small
the
Library
Present
at
Edinburgh,
Stuart's
See
We
Mary
Away,
of
the
Evening
Edinburgh,
on
Lester
Lonergan.
that
younger
account,
loyally
that
and
prologue
modem
"great
Eames
that
devotedly
Mary
appears
concerns
Johns
Reicher
Thurston
Hall
House
in
in Andrew
Boyd's
This
Time.
When
Fades
Room
in Holyrood
Castle,
March
old
an
should
lovers"
it is
and
follows
Clare
Florence
Waldron
Charles
Leslie
Palmer
Damley
Thomas
Bothwell
Dtiring
Whytal
Frank
Riccio
Francis
Russ
Boyd
Andrew
9,
man
perfectly possible
more
to
than
one
substantiate
Mary's
affair
seeks
to
held
too
be
not
for
with
some
The
man.
the
Staged
1566.
convince
strictly
wives
to
to
love
land's
spirit of Scot-
argument.
her
by
Italian
The
act
secretary.
THE
438
the
1920-1921
stirs Damley's
Riccio, which
jealousy
assassination, and there is a brief reference
unhappy
in Riccio's
in the
interest
OF
PLAYS
BEST
and
to
results
her
later
Bothwell.
bold
"TOTO"
from
in four
acts
the
comedy
adapted
Shubert
by Lee
Abdullah, produced
New
Theater,
CAST
Victor
Louise
March
York,
OF
French
George
Pontillet
Robert
de
Pascaline
Bowhan
Phoebe
Orlando
Tergy
de
Bijou
CHARACTERS
Tillois
de
Foster
Daly
Clyde
Rivarol
Veaux
Albert
Brown
Murry
Jeannette
Belle
Nellie
Olivette
Ruth
Fanchon
Antoine
Edith
de
Baroness
Tillois
Veriere
de
Baron
de
"Toto"
"
Paula
Veriere
M.
Merinville
de Tillois
Lanier
Madame
Mile.
Severus
Act
the
Ballet.
Act
Madame
de Tillois
Garden
of
the
Room
in
Refreshment
"
as
of
Later.
I.
II.
Reception
"
Blois.
near
Chateau
IV.
Act
See
Days
Later.
Act
III.
de
Tillois.
Four
III.
The
Following
Madame
Act
as
Same
"
Knill
H.
Paris
Apartment
of de
Room
for
the
Girls
Hall
in the
Chateau
of
Two
of
Kelly
Hamner
Emma
Edward
Improvised
Weeks
A.
Josephine
Merinville
Tillois
Millar
Beach
Cooke
Underwood
Frances
Colombe
SYNOPSIS:
Shay
Lee
de
Madame
Bmt
Thomas
Rose
Scott
Ditrichstein
Leo
Auguste
Evariste
Achmed
1921.
Gustav
de
Henri
"
the
at
21,
by
Morning.
Antoine
de
Tillois
Mme.
Tillois
Toto
the
gay
Blois
who
would
sake
Blois
it is
over
settle
the
never
of
his
again.
he
down
to
in
has
young
year
marry
Paris
unless
her
sort
girls,amorous
Louise.
her
and
domestic.
Mme.
court.
daughter
Hfe
became
chorus
between
of
and
and
flighty
his
full
was
sedate
was
with
men
her'
divided
the
to
young
with
she
in
moved
Boulevardiers,"
and
("Toto")
Tillois
Years
father
parents
and
were
worldly
bitions.
am-
They
arated.
sepof "king
of
baronesses, 1
stayed
on
in
later, Louise,
mother,
swore
reconciled.
For
cotmtry.
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
"IT'S
A
UP
TO
NEW
YORK
439
YOU"
musical
in three
and
comedy
acts, book
lyrics by Augustin
Edward
Douglas
Leavitt,
Paulton, and
Harry
Clarke, produced
Moore
Pataoh
at
the
by William
Casino
March
Theater, New
York,
24, 1921.
MacHugh,
CAST
Ned
OF
CHARACTERS
Spencer
Dick
Charles
King
Douglas
Leavitt
Short
Harry
Ray
George
Dayton
Duke
Jim
Oliver
Freddy
Col.
Stephen
Forrest
Albert
A
Collector
Sheriff McCabe
Harriet
Sackett
Frank
Michel
Cutter
Royal
Pierce
.Betty
;
Lockwood
Mary
Hollistar
Ethel
Mrs.
Hollistar
Van
Lotta
De
Ruth
Lando
Hollistar
Florence
Vere
Hortense
Earle
Norma
Florence
Ge"sitt
Suzanne
Brown
Hope
Madeleine
SYNOPSIS:
Act
I.
Dare
Mrs.
Malba-onHoUistar's,
P. M.
May
on
a
Evening.
11:30
Act
11.
Office of the Spencer
At
"
Island.
the-Sound,
Long
the Foundation."
"Laying
Land
"
Realty
Co., Near
Fairhaven,
Later.
In the
Morning.
"Building."
Later.
An
Late
in August.
Evening
Frank
Stammers.
Staged
by
"
Ned
with
be
to
is
in
Months
Two
III.
A Year
ing."
Warm-
"
House
to promote
a
Dayton,
friendship
eager
Hillistar, object matrimony,
pretend
of the
to
gain the consent
girls' parents.
boom
which
in their desperation
they launch
Ethel
order
real-estate
last-act
complete
I,
Act
"The
Dick
and
rich
fake
The
and
Spencer
Harriet
L.
success.
"NEMESIS"
A
melodrama
in
M.
George
four
by
acts
Cohan
at
the
April
CAST
4,
Thomas,
Theater,
Ethel
Kalian
Dr.
Purdy
Mr.
Davis
Mr.
Kalian
Prank
Counsel
Bottomley
M.
M.
Jennie
Conlon
for
TeU
de
Emmett
John
James
Jeanne
Officer
Goff
Olive
Woodruff
Pedro
Jovaine
Mr.
Winthrop
Marie
Eleanor
Roland
Lonarby
Simpson
Robert
the
Defense
produced
York,
CHARACTERS
Wendell
Constance
Marcia
Grace
New
1921.
Purdy
Mrs.
Mr.
OF
Augustus
Hudson
Charles
Cordoba
Readick
John
Craig
Corrigan
Troghton
Dickerson
Cummings
P.
Bates
by
THE
440
PLAYS
BEST
1920-1921
OF
Howard
Witness
The
Judge,
A
G.
Warden
SYNOPSIS:
Act
II.
Act
Home.
Weeks
Later.
Days
I.
Act
III.
Scene
Later.
of Jovaine,
Scene
I
"
the
the
Frye
Hart
Kalian's
Sculptor,
the
The
"
Outside
"
in
Library
The
"
Studio
"
Nugent
Clayton
Jerry
Two
Ten
Boudoir.
Home.
Scene
"
of
The
Boudoir.
Act
IV.
Scene
Court
General
I
Sessions.
is dropped
Months
Later.
Eight
(The curtain
one
minute
Scene
The
to indicate
lapse of ten months.)
2
a
Gate
Meehan,
at Sing
Staged
by John
Sing.
"
"
"
suspicious of his
a
sculptor.
young
young
it is a guilty interest
he craftily schemes
to
Satisfying himself
be revenged
the
lovers.
He
in
clay, impressions
upon
secures,
he has
of the sculptor's finger tips, from
which
rubber
duplicates
Then
molded.
sends
he
stabs
his
for
the
deliberately
wife,
his
and
false
finger
sculptor, manages
by the
arrest,
proves,
murderer.
is the
man
prints on the furniture, that the innocent
the
hour
of execution
he
the
At
outside
stands
prison walls and
evidence.
philosophizes on the infallibilityof circumstantial
John
Kalian,
an
beautiful
wife's
"IPHIGENIA
revival
of
the
Greek
Society of
House,
Oratorio
tragedy
New
by Euripides,
York
New
CAST
AULIS"
IN
York,
OF
the
at
April
produced
Manhattan
17,
1921.
CHARACTERS
Agamemnon
Messenger
Clytemnestra
of Clytemnestra
Batsheba
Nell
in
by
four
Astrid
TRIAL
OP
acts,
translated
Haiton
JOAN
Argyll, produced
New
York, April
CAST
Delafontaine
William
Massieu
Askowith
Vincent
Flower
Foulger
Maroni
"THE
Moreau
Anglin
J. Bemd
Mary
Byron
Achilles
OF
OF
from
at
12,
Olsen
ARC"
the
the
192
oot
Mather
Roeder
Milton
Iphigenia
Torchbearer
tragedy
Barf
Miss
Calchas
Powers
Eugene
Harry
Sydney
Ralph
Attendant
Menelaus
Attendant
Nurse
by the
Opera
French
Shubert
of
Theater,
1.
CHARACTERS
Joseph
Matthews
Byroni
Maroni
Emile
"Foulger
Olsen
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
NEW
Earl
of Stafford
Moreau
Jean
Tlphams
YORK
Charles
Webster
Cameron
Matthewg
Greg Robbins
Powers
Eugene
Hull
.Henry
of Bedford
Bedford
Page
Fred
Eric
William
Street
Albert
Gran
of
Pierre
Cauchon
Jean
Beaupere
VI., King
Henry
Queen
England
Kather
Catherine
Marion
Lark
Loyseleur
Ralph
Howard
William
Ysambard
Vernon
William
Kyle
Henry
Lenox
Pope
Grey
Jeanne
D'Arc
Margaret
Cameron
Goodale
Will
Leparmentier
Dungeon
Bailie's,
"
Act
A Room
in the Castle
of Philippe
A
Hall
in the
Castle.
Act
III.
A
in
Castle.
the
Act
IV.
the
Chief
at
Hall,
View
Old
Market
Place.
of the
Commanding
a
Place
Rouen.
1431.
Act
II.
of
of
witchcraft
Enghsh
trial
the
sight of the
Revived
OP
in
Shawn
Michael
Jimmie
Playboy
Theater,
Flaherty
Keogh
James
Flaherty
Farrell
Sara
Susan
Quin
Tansey
Brady
Blake
Honor
Old
Mahon
the
historical
execution,
OF
WESTERN
curacy;
ac-
during
charge
WORLD"
by John Millington
Synge.
the
at
Producing
Company
New
York,
April 16, 1921.
acts
CHARACTERS
Gladys
F.
Cullen
Philly
Mahon
Christopher
Widow
THE
three
CAST
Margaret
to
trial of the
the
with
scaffold.
comedy
the
by
Bramhall
reported
preliminary
scene
PLAYBOY
satirical
inquisitors for
itself
the
by her enemies, at first admits
reclaims
then
her sustaining faith;
gloriously
assembled
execution
reported by the crowd
and
of
"THE
"
her
the
Orleans;
dungeon
Joan, badgered
within
"
"
assembling
scene
I.
"
"
the
the
Robert
Bell
F.
Canfield
William
SYNOPSIS:
Auguste.
which
Anghn
Matthews
Ashford
Harry
G. Kemmet
Ralph
Berwoit
of
Street
Coulter
Glenn
DeLuxembourg
Time
Barney
Taylor
Roeder
Lemaistre
Manchon
John
The
Mather
Roberta
Sydney
of
D'Estivet
Maid
Barfoot
Harry
Chamberlain
Winchester
Earl
of Warvrick
Duke
441
Walter
Hurlbut
S.
Pelly
Edwin
Carmody
John
O'Neill
Harry
Thomas
Rose
Sarah
Mitchell
Morison
Enright
Helen
Hutchms
Elaine
Ivans
J- S. Crawley
BEST
THE
442
The
PLAYS
Christy
of
adventures
amusing
in
neighborhood
the
"da','' only to have
dead
bandaged
supposedly
parent,
pursuit of him.
in
name
killed
distant
in
drama
Man
three
Frohman
the
at
i8,
CAST
The
whole,
OF
Marquis
Pynge
Violet
Brawf
Minister
of Trois
Dennis
Fleures
King
Wolfe
J. S. De
Gale
Shirley
Ina
Rorke
Carsdale
Betty
Albert
Henrietta
Chiffon
Piccolo
Guy
Tovell
Goodwyn
Standing,
Herbert
Phedro
Jr.
Grimwood
E.
Swete
Lyall
Jane
Cooper
Olga Borowska
Ursus
Dea
An
in
Ethel
Barrymore
Kemble
Cooper
ord
St. Wynne
of State
Jenny
the
boldly
comes
Darnell
Henry
Cochrane
Roy
Chevenix
Madame
Lady
Lady
having
when
CHARACTERS
Arranton
Mr.
great
1921.
Queen
Lord
The
him
on
LUNE"
Duchess
of Beaumont
The
Prince
Charles
of Vaucluse
by
of
Based
"The
on
Strange.
by Michael
Produced
by Victor Hugo.
by Charles
Empire
Theater, New
York, April
acts
Laughed,"
Who
DE
his boast
lie turned
but
gains
who
Mahon,
Ireland
his
"CLAIR
1920-1921
OF
Indian
Slave
Dnunmer
{ "=^"fen?iZ^
Boys
Gwymplane
John
Barrymore
Soldiers
SYNOPSIS:
Queen.
The
the
Same.
Duchess.
Small
dramatization
"
The
I.
Another
"
Scene
Part
Act
Masque.
Act
III.
Scene
E.
by
Schooner.
Queen.
A
Act
Scene
Staged
suicide.
Victor
"
Lyall
In
"
of
II.
I
the
In
Swete.
the
the
"
"
Park.
In the
On
the
Antechamber
Park
of
the
Scene
Bedroom
Deck
of
"
of
of
the
Man
Who
Hugo's story of "The
and
the
Laughed."
Gwymplane,
mountebank,
Dea, the bUnd
who
loves
entertainment
to
in
him,
are
an
permitted
give
girl
the
of Queen
the gardens of
Anne.
It is at
palace at the court
is interested
in preventing, if she
the
Anne
the time
marriage
can,
of her sister,the Duchess
of Beaumont,
Charles.
Into
to Prince
the
the
and
Dea
former
drawn,
plot Gwymplane
are
by the
his distorted
the degenerate
fascination
face exercises
duchess,
on
in
interest
her.
and
Charles'
The
Dea
unholy
through
escape
the
of Gwymplane
is followed
and
Dea
and
by the girl's death
mountebank's
of
Scene
"
PLAYS
PRODUCED
YORK
NEW
IN
443
"MACBETH"
A
revival
of
the
Revived
Shakespearean
the
at
April
CAST
"
Duncan,
King
OP
Walter
by
tragedy
Broadhurst
Theater,'
19,
1921.
CHARACTERS
of Scotland
Malcolm
Donalbam
Macbeth
Rowan
Bucklee
Hampden
Sauter
J. Harry
Irvine
Pox
Arthur
Richard
Abbott
Lennox
Ross
Roi
Le
Monteith
Geneva
Fleance
Siward
Young
Seyton
Son
to
MacdufE
P.
Edwin
Richard
Murderer
Macbeth
Macduff
The
MacdufE
Attending
Lady
on
Cushman
Highley
Hall
Mary
Macbeth,
Elsie
Hemdon
Keams
Elsie
Roi
Le
Hemdon
Keams
Witch
Witch
Operti
Clark
Hannam
Witch
scenes
Kelly
Clark
Sunderland
Netta
Gentlewoman
Third
Sauter
J.
Hannam
A Porter
First
Murderer
Second
Highley
William
Sergeant
First
Thomas
p. J. Kelly
Haden
Sara
Doctor
Second
Operti
Harrison
Allen
Richard
Siward
Lady
Lady
Thomas
Walter
William
Macduff
A
A
Allen
Ernest
Roy
Banquo.
Boy,
Hampden.
York,
New
in Scotland,
the
except
takes
which
place in
Malcolm,
laid
are
and
scene
between
England.
"LILIOM"
A
fantastical
by
the
drama
in
Theater
at
CAST
Lawyer
Lawyer
Tiger
Pussyfoot
Maltese
Puff
Miss
Charlie
Youngcat
Clerk
Court
Court
Attendant
Court
Attendant
Court
Attendant
Attendant
Court
Fairy
Justicia
the
April
York,
Judge
by Franz
scenes
seven
Guild
OF
Garrick
20,
Molnar, produced
Theater, New
",,A"iC^'
W'^'''^
1921.
CHARACTERS
Oscar
Mmton
Hall
Spaulding
White
Lilyan
Tommy
Bell
Fred
Billy
Harry
Verne
Alex.
Helen
Barker
Oscar
bick
Derby
Scot
Harland
Topping
Ragland
Gus
Jonas
Tipton
"it-
Brown
Brown
Brown
Brown
Brown
Rich
Ragland
Welsh
Dixon
THE
444
Lord
Cyril
Jones
Jinia
1920-1921
OF
PLAYS
BEST
Roy
Gower
Vivian
Bad
Duncan
Marie
Nina
Sewell
Pauline
Adele
Rosalie
Ursula
Hall
O'Hare
Clark
Dorothy
Bertha
I. Skinem
Gus
Mintoa
Charles
Mast
"WiUiam
Kerschell
Lizzie
Sheriff
Cowface
Davy
Judy
Dipp
Fairy
Caprice
Charles
Mast
Violet
Anna
SYNOPSIS:
Scene
I.
Act
Barker's
"
Scene
4
Act
II.
"
"
School
Scene
ville.
Scene
Bumsi'de.
Room.
i
On
"
Land
"
Shop.
Scene
Scene
Scene
the
"
"
A
Court
Outside
the
The
"
Beach.
of Heart's
Desire.
Room.
School.
Red
Scene
Zell
Ludmila
Canyon.
Melody-
"
Staged
by
R,
H.
162.
page
"JUNE
musical
W.
Duncan
Rosetta
Worse
Caldwell
Gladys
Alice
See
Hoyer
Valerio
Teresa
in
comedy
H.
two
LOVE"
acts,
book
Otto
by
Harbach
and
Post,
Hooker,
music
CAST
Tiny
Mrs.
Bobbie
Golden
Martia
OF
CHARACTERS
Lois
Golden
Martha
Clarence
Foster
Love
Geoffrey
Garrison
Jack
Eddie
Mrs.
Belle
Nordstrom
James
W.
Evans
June
Billings
B.
Davidson
Johnny
Love
Dooley
Else
Bolton
Alder
Beaimionte
Lionel
Pape
Bertee
Thompson
Miss
Summers
Elisman
Polly Smith
Smith
Kitty
Butler
Billie
Constance
Miss
Shilling
Madison
Doris
Alice
Landy
Gordon
Robert
SYNOPSIS:
Act
I.
Porch
and
Garden
Act
II.
Room
in
Reception
Geoffrey
Home.
Place
Somewhere
Near
New
The
Present.
Vivian.
Staged
by George
"
"
"
Jtme Love,
Josephine
Mayo
attractive
at
the
Heft
Loves*.
Love's
Country
York.
Time
"
meet
an
man
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
"JUST
A
farce
in
comedy
three
NEW
YORK
445
MARRIED"
Matthews
and
Ann
by Adelaide
in
by Jules Hurtig
with
conjunction
Shubert
at the Comedy
Theater, New
York,
April 26, 1 92 1.
acts
Nichols, produced
the
Messrs.
CAST
Mrs.
Walker
Johnnie
Second
Steward
Victoire
Bertin
OF
CHARACTERS
Eleanor
Hairigan
Eliz Gergely
Foster
Roy
Jess Dandy
Ship's
OfiBcer
U. Makepeace
V.
Makepeace
Mr.
Mrs.
First
Mrs.
Witter
Witter
Isabel
R.
Jadk Stanley
Jack
Stanley
Percy
Jones
Adams
Roberta
Miss
Taxi
Dorothy
De
Adams
Anton
Act
I.
Pier
"
'
of the
Bordeaux,
midnight.
toward
Luxe
No.
'
and
France,
Act
II.
"
"
other
for
stateroom
bed
returning
is to
from
Steamer
i
"La
Stateroom
"
Scene
"
Immediately
II., Scene
and
with
abroad
with
two
Gdndrale
Scene
"
Deck,
Adams,
Aacher
Compagnie
The
76.
Following Morning.
outside
Stateroom
No.
76.
Scene
Act
III.
Same
following
Act
i.
as
Time
The
Present.
Staged by J. C. Huffman
Stork.
Promenade
Roberta
Butler
John
Transatlantique,"
Fayette"
P. Davis
Mortimer
Pumell
Pratt
Overman
Lynne
Vivian
Martin
Driver
SYNOPSIS
occupies
O'Madigan
Steward
Robert
Lidd
Robert
2.
Clifford
the
understanding
other
lady passenger.
pink silk pajamas to
the
be
Witters,
that
the
The
occupied by some
she awakes
in her
discover
out
morning
boiled
shirt
and
gentleman
a
a
wearing
mystified
a
strange
His name,
it happens, is Robert
expression in the adjoining bed.
and
he was
when
he came
than
as
Adams,
slightly alcoholic
more
intimated
steward
he was
take
the
to
aboard, and
married, the misBut
it takes
to
two
acts
explain it to the
quite natural.
was
first
Witters
decided
the
at
"
to
of
end
get married,
which
tragedy
author
in
four
CAST
"A
Rich
Benedict
Gen.
Ramiro
Prince
Emil
Rosen
Morris
Greenwich
York,
Tauber
Jew)
Arnold
Robert
OP
May
Wittman,
produced
New
Village Theater,
2,
1921.
CHARACTERS
Royal
Thayer
McManus
George
David
(A
and
have
SACRIFICE"
by
acts
the
at
Roberta
anyway.
"THE
time
Rabbi)
A.
Harry
Leonard
Stanley
by
the
PLAYS
BEST
THE
446
Doctor
OF
1920-1921
Gates
General
Conway
~olin
Ann
Shippen
Moury
that
Benedict
the
Georgie
Constance
Lady
seeks
It
about
at
paper.
Camilla
escaped
with
that
seems
West
he
Camilla
cards
the
to
with
meeting
was
Spanish
honor
smart
and
suit
die
to
hero's
"THE
A
revival
death
at
SERVANT
And
the
he
traded
his
of his
return
lost
chances
discredited
the
and
Spaniard, however,
she
regimentals with which
later
recognizing Major
army,
of
let
of
him
however,
go,
him, and
returned
after
to
the
Yorktown.
IN
THE
HOUSE"
Rann
symbolical play in five acts
by John
in repertoire by
Walter
Kennedy,
at
produced
Hampden
the
Broadhurst
New
Theater,
York,
May
2,
1921.
of
the
CAST
Ponsonby
James
the
Lord
OF
CHARACTERS
MakeshyfEe,
Bishop
Reverend
The
of
the
D.D.,
most
Lancashire
Wilham
Smythe
Auntie
Elsie
Mary
Robert
Smith
Rogers
comedy
LITTLE
GIRLS
in three
acts, book
Lannin
and
Vincent
produced
by
A.
L.
New
CAST
Dolly
Polly
Sartoris
Mabel
Ernest
Bart:t
IN
Youmans,
Erlanger
York,
OF
at
May
"
Moore
Rowan
Roi
Operti
Hampden
BLUE"
3, 1921.
CHARACTERS
Madeline
Sartoris
.
Robert
Sauter
Keams
Walter
"TWO
Paul
Clark
William
Le
Manson
musical
Reverend
Hannam
Hemdon
Mary
Mr.
when
he
envoy
for
for
Putman
"
shady
Tauber.
Camilla
too
was
her
another
Point
named
Jewess
lot of money
of a secret
reveal
to
Arnold.
British
Bert
Laura
Roberts
Patricia
Rand
Esther
of
Sherwood
Wittman
Yolan
Peggy
play
Long
Kennedy
Garrison
Camilla
Anna
Baird
Oehler
Robert
Joe
Butler)
(The
^^
7alet
Paulson
Joseph
Henry
Andre
Major
Z.
Myron
Willard
General
Marion
Fairbanks
Fairbanks
Oscar
Shaw
PLAYS
PRODUCED
IN
Jerry
Lloyd
Morgan
Atwell
Hanette
Ninon
Fred
Olin
Neville
La
Morrow
Newton
Maid
Canney
Jack
Tommy
o'
the
Mist
HoflE
Law
Patricia
Clarke
Edith
Decker
Beulah
McParland
Bird
Bride
SYNOPSIS:
Actl.
S.S. "Empress"
Sail for
to
Ready
Act
II.
Scene
Main
Saloon.
Scene
I
3
Cabin.
Act
III.
Off the
Indian
Shore.
Staged
"
"
"
"
Dolly's
Dolly
Mack
Tomson
Tomson
Fred
Hall
Evelyn
India.
"
Ned
by
Janvier
Kelety
Vanda
Ophelia
Mary
Santley
Julia
George
Margie
447
Howland
Emma
Fleur
Captain
Jennings
Kennedy
The
YORK
NEW
Waybum.
and
claim
want
to
Polly Sartoris
to
get to India
an
for
funds
inheritance, but
to
they have
only sufficient
a
pay
decide
the
and
fool
single passage.
to tryr
So, being twins, they
and
deck.
captain, taking turns
going to meals
walking on
On
the steamer
the
nicest
of
who
two
meet
they
men
are
young
twin
the
for
other.
become
constantly
one
mistaking
They
engaged at the end of the voyage.
"PRINCESS
A
musical
comedy
by
produced
in
two
Gerald
VIRTUE"
Bacon
York,
New
CAST
by
acts
OF
B.
at
May
C.
the
4,
HilUam
Central
Theater,
CHARACTERS
Jules Epailly
Allen
Fagan
Maison
Alice
Sarah
Edwards
Pierre
Francine
Mrs.
Demarest
Miss
Leadbeater
Hugh
Bourbon
Hiram
Anne
Page
Cameron
Bradford
Crawford
Bruce
Carre
Earl
Frank
Demarest
Kirkbride
Foxe
A.
Moulain
Sylvia Elias
Maxine
G.
Robert
Transky
Demarest,
Baron
Gitz
1921.
Gautier
Lane
and
Virtue"
"Princess
Gower
Sir Arthur
Claire
Morin
Kosta
Greene
Frank
Zella
Rambeau
Charles
Fransois
Pitkin
Tessa
Grady
Chariot
Jerome
Miller
Montesanto
Goulden
Harold
Leroy
Chic
Poisson
Maison
Paris,
Gautier,
The
I.
the ChSlteau
Garden
Adjoining
Sunken
Same.
Scene
The
Deauville.
2
at
Gower,
of Sir Arthur
Errol.
Leon
by
Staged
Evening.
SYNOPSIS:
Act
II.
"
Act
Scene
"
"
"
Rice,
BEST
THE
448
Liane
Demarest,
American
an
is in
and
agreeably soprano,
of the
suspicious of most
intensive
investigation she
loved
her
when
she
soldier
at
in
revue
young
sijrteen
Fen
Al.
One
for
shows
to
OF
Miss
Barrie's
James M.
Delaney Dunn,
music
Shubert
York,
OF
at
May
Shubert
Warren
O'Toole
Proctor
Shaun
Glenville
Gertrude
Mudge
Muriel
Tindal
Willoughby
Mary
Trumbull
Marie
Lucius
Spier
Blades
Joe
McCord
Pettes
Metz
Tinsley
Gertrude
Blair
LiUian
Wilck
Elaine
Mcintosh
Isabella
EUzabeth
Marie
Georgie
Alfred
Thomas
Smith
June
Uarda
SYNOPSIS:
Prologue
Street.
Quality
The
"
Throssel
in
Five
Years
Later.
Act
II.
Barracks.
of the
Evening
in an
EngUsh
Country
Town,
"
Staged
the
CHARACTERS
Charlotte
Harriet
Wilham
by
W.
H.
Gihnore.
biUets
"Quality Street,"
by Walter
Kollo,
9, 1921.
Willoughby
Ensign
rest
Ward
Dorothy
Newcomb
Jessamime
Brown
Terence
Henrietta
Lieutenant
1921.
STREET"
QUALITY
of Sir
CAST
Fanny
9,
world.
Throssel
Throssel
Sergeant
Patty
May
Canadian
the
tour
of the
tour
adapted by Edward
Messrs.
by the
produced
Theater, New
Valentine
Dumbells"
Charters
Ted
version
Susan
grounds.
Hamilton
Ross
Arthur
Holland
reorganized
Phoebe
who
Crawford,
1^*^^ McLaren
first soldier
musicahzed
properly
evening's
ENGAGED
wick
"PHOEBE
A
an
"The
parts,
Newman
of the
in France
After
rich
BANG!"
Plunket
"Red"
and
home
presented by
New
York,
Theater,
two
pretty,
love
Bob
the
on
Goode
Jimmy
France,
true
on
PRINCIPALS
Fred
in
meets.
BING!
Ambassador
the
of
she
settles
sweet
was
1920-1921
girl
search
actors
"BIFF!
A
OF
PLAYS
Farrell
Little
Victory
Burnett
Home
of
the
Misses
Act
I.
Same
Prologue.
as
At the Ball in the Regimental
Same
Scene
The
Is Laid
Day.
"
During
the
Napoleonic
Wars.
PLAYS
musicalized
Phoebe
the
to
PRODUCED
version
Throssel,
wars
just
spinsterhood
thinks
her
as
She
is about
the
school
and
simple gowns
outrageously
flirts_
time
YORK
"Quality
is
When
449
ready
to
is called
faces
propose,
lover
her
which
in
Street/'
Brown,
Valentine
he
teacher.
rettims
with
aside
lady, but
Phoebe, throwing
her
niece
prim ways,
as
own
poses
him, until she has him again at her
him
then, but changes her mind.
"THE
A
NEW
old
her
refuse
to
Barrie's
sweetheart,
about
Uttle
of
whose
IN
LAST
he
her
and
feet.
WALTZ''
musical
and
Alfred
CAST
General
Miecu
Ensign
Orsinski
OF
CHARACTERS
Krasian
Clarence
Harvey
Rex
Carter
Kaminski
Captain
Lieutenant
Ted
Matlain
Labinescue
Adjutant
Ruth
Timothy
Mat
Vera
Lizaveta
Countess
U.
Merxington,
Jack
Maltby
S.
Corpulinski
Hannuschka
Barton
Sleanor
Florence
Painter
Morrison
Beatrice
Swanson
Swanson
Marcella
Petruschka
Gladys
Babuschka
Eleanor
Hubenstitch
Duke
Harry
Fender
Evans
Isabel
Rodriguez
Marguerite
Giuran
and
Harrison
Dancers
Paul
Prince
Chochette
Brockbank
Manning
Rena
Nan
Lolo
Rainsford
Helen
Sylvette
Walton
Griffith
George
Ippolith
Carnienina
Herendeen
Carolyn
Reynolds
Jean Thomas
Babette
Francine
Amelia
Zadie
SYNOPSIS:
I.
Act
Near
"
Drawing
City
the
Room
of
in
Vandalia.
the
Allen
Castle
Act
II.
of
General
Krasian,
Ballroom
Krasian.
Act
III.
of General
of
Paul,
Regent
Palace
of Prince
in the Balkans
Is Vandalia.
Kingdom
The
Scene
a
Time
The
Present.
Frontier,
Staged
Russian
Frank
Smithson.
Huffman
and
Drawing
Vandaha.
the
near
J. C.
by
Lieutenant
Balkans
Woolf
James
Alexandrowna
Rose
Mills
Daly
Walter
Annuschka
Baron
Grand
Lowe
Lorraine
Irving
Mariette
Vladek
Lieut.
V.
John
and
in
Room
the
Castle
in
"
"
the
"
U.
S.
N.,
Merrington,
of being thrown
in danger
finding himself
into
fn
prison, sings
the
and
himself
dances
all the
into
armies
Balkan
good
the
influence,
considerable
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
4SO
and
few
An
operetta
author
at
in
acts
19,
192
that
they
of
Dumas
the
Parsons
Hall
diamond
studs
Buckingham)
missing.
of
written
romance
from
journey
(which
before
Paris
she
King
had
aroimd
London
to
given
Louis
can
to
to
her
learn
ALONG"
"SHUFFLE
An
City,
Booker
Hedley
version
are
York
the
J. Himibird
Duffy
Richard
Temple
Favor
Duke
by
Carr
Percy
John
adventurous
lover, the
finallyher
but
produced
Leonard
Lewin
D'Artagnan's
the queen's
recover
interim
the
Atark
Leo
Angelo
Temple
Emery
musicalized
defies
1.
Paula
Edward
Winifred
Verina
Jean Wilkins
of
lady
he
ENGAGED
PRINCIPALS
B, N.
Edward
In
New
House,
Opera
May
Charles
Temple,
Richard
by
Manhattan
the
up
duets
several
that
MUSKETEERS"
THREE
two
set
so
princes.
extra
not
"THE
is
he
he
Lizaveta,
of Vera
graces
which
after
1920-1921
in two
and
all-negro musical
comedy
lyrics
acts, book
by the Nikko
by Sissle and Blake, produced
Producing
the
Street
Music
at
Sixty-third
Company
Hall,
York
New
City, May
23, 1921.
CAST
OF
CHARACTERS
At
the Piano
Jim Williams
Jessie
Williams
Ruth
Little
Harry
Walton
Eubie
Blake
Paul
Floyd
Lottie
Gee
Gertrude
Saunders
Matthews
Roger
Richard
Cooper
!A^^wSdTo'^
Snippy
Mrs.
Tom
Steve
Sam
Sam
Peck
Jack
Rufus
Penrose
Loose
Peck
Mattie
Sharper
Jenkins
Noble
F.
E.
Aubrey
Lawrence
C.
Wesley
Mason
Wilks
Sissle
Miller
Lyles
Deas
Hill
PLAYS
PRODUCED
Soakum
IN
NEW
YORK
Plat
A.
Stmtt
Baldwin
Williams
Charles
Davis
Billy
Uncle
Tom
Old Black
Joe
Secretary
to
Bob
Mayor
SYNOPSIS:
Hotel.
and
II.
E.
451
Act
I.
Scene
"
Scene
2
Reek's
Grocery
Possum
Lane.
Scene
Store.
Scene
Public
4
Calico
Comers.
Scene
2
Scene
Scene
Scene
Election
"
Day.
Walter
Possum
Saunders
Mayor's
OfiSce.
Room
Place
Hotel.
Jimtown's
in Dixieland.
Jimtown
Scene
"
Jenkins'
"
Lane.
Lane.
Time
of
"
Act
Square.
"
"
The
Ball
"
"
Jimtown
"
"
Duncan
of
Exterior
"
Williams
Ina
"
Staged
by
Brooks.
"SUNKIST"
A
in
revue
acts, book
two
produced
the
by
and
York,
at
May
PRINCIPALS
Fanchon
Arthur
the
Globe
23,
1921.
Al
West
Witte
De
California
George
as
with
revue
the
the
presented
return
engagement
May
OF
CAST
Girl
The
Tavern
Hired
Man
The
Vagabond
The
Woman
The
Governor
Governor's
Wife
The
The
Governor's
Daughter
The
Sheriff
Sheriff's
Man
Sheriff's
Other
The
The
The
The
The
The
drama,
burlesque melothe Chicago
CHARACTERS
Clyde North
Virginia Irwin
William
Keeper
L.
Thome
Joseph
George
M.
Rita
Allen
Cohan
Romily
Norman
Hackett
Blair
Eugenie
Withers
Isabel
Robert
Edwin
Joseph
William
Man
Joseph
Attendant
by
his
with
1921.
23,
Fiance
Staged
of southern
travesties.
of
Son
Keeper's
Tavern
Hired
studios
Theater
Hudson
Company,
The
for the
TAVERN"
the
Kerr
moving-picture
"THE
at
Chain
Strycker
Clark
principal target
Cohan's
M.
Wohlman
and
Donald
Eva
California
John
Meehan
Marco,
New
Theater,
Nelson
Muriel
Daisey
Sheehan
John
and
ENGAGED
Marco
and
Fanchon
lyrics by
authors
and
George
M.
Cohan,
Gleckler
Walter
Gutherie
Gaunt
Selman
PLAYS
BEST
THE
452
OF
"SNAPSHOTS
A
in
revue
travesty
the Selwyns
Lew
New
Ernest
Fields
DeWolf
Phil
Hopper
Lulu
Alan
Alda
Delyle
Bayes
Lew
by
ENGAGED
PRINCIPALS
Nora
1921"
and
acts
two
and
1920-1921
OF
Lambert
White
McConnell
George
Edwards
Gilda
MacKay
Gray
"GOLD"
A
acts
in iova
by Eugene' G. O'Neill, produced
tragedy
the
Frazee
at
D.
Williams
Theater, New
John
York, June i, 1921^
OF
CAST
CHARACTERS-
Willard
Bartlett
Geraldine
Bartlett
Drew
Danny
Charles
E.
Nat
Bartlett
Doctor
Berry
Act
of
Interior
III.
Post
Lookout
believes
Two
of
be
to
the
crew
whereabouts
of
Cooper
on
the
treasure
the
of the
wharf
the
on
Act
Bartlett
Months
II.
"
Place
Later.
Six
An
Afternoon
Bartlett
House.
Dawn
of the
the
"Cabin"
His
Act
IV.
Bartlett's
House.
A
One
Night
the
of the
Top
Direction
of Homer
Saintunder
the
crew
"
chest.
on
of his
whaling
chest
and
murdered
are
Island
Noon.
Archipdago.
Bartlett, wrecked
the
Coral
Barren
"
Staged
Captain Isaiah
Archipelago with
Francis
Ballantine
of
At
"
Year
Later,
Gaudens.
"
Coast.
Morning.
Following
he
Shed
Exterior
"
I.
Malay
the
of a Boat
California
the
J.
O'Brien
Scott
SYNOPSIS:
Fringe
Mack
Holloway
D. Brown
Charles
T. Tamanoto
Katherine
Grey
Bartlett
Mrs.
Fred
J.
Sue
Act
Marion
George
Butler
on
3utk
Ashley
Abel
Isaiah
Captain
Home
Silas
Ben
Gates
Kanaka
Jimmy
by
coral
steamer,
buries
to
prevent
Picked
up
island
and
in the
Malay
discovers
what
it for future
recovery.
them
revealing the
returned
to
Maine,
sail
he wiU
ship with which
the
murders
the
over
on
Brooding
he feels a personal responsibility, the old man's
island, for which
his guilty
mind
learn
His
wife
and
gradually gives away.
son
his
secret
His
refusal
confess
to
through
causes
mutterings.
the
death
of the
such
with
religious wife and
inspires the son
dreams
that
dies
he
also goes
mad.
The
old man
and
greedy
the
is discovered
treasure
but
to be nothing
junk.
the
back
captain begins
and
find
the
the
building
treasure.
of
PLAYS
PRODUCED
"THE
A
musical
IN
BROADWAY
453
WHIRL"
revue,
de
Silva
and
PRINCIPALS
Richard
ENGAGED
Carle
Blanche
Charles
Maxon
Winona
Ring
Winninger
and
Winter
Gould
Jay
Gault
Sisters
Warner
Brown
"THE
"
YORK
Bud
An
NEW
Janet
WHIRL
OP
NEW
YORK"
version
of "The
Belle
of New
expanded
and
York," book
Morton
and
lyrics by Hugh
Edgar Smith, music
by Gustav
and
Lew
Kerker, Al Goodman
Pollock; produced
by
the Shuberts
the
at
Winter
New
Garden,
York,
Jtme 13, 192 1.
CAST
OF
CHARACTERS
Twiddles
Carl
Fricot
Bronson
Harry
Cora
Doc
J. Harold
Angelique
Frank
Tattsi
Karl
Von
Purhpemick
Bill
Blinky
Joe
Fitzgarter
Chas.
"
Mile.
Violet
the
of
Mamie
Al
Maxa
McCree
Rosie
Green
_
Clancy
J. CoUigan
Jones
Officer
SYNOPSIS:
Garden
the
of
Harry
Bluff.
Scene
I.
i
at
8
Drive,
A.
Bronson's
Home.
The
"
"
Home
M.
Harry
o"
Scene
Scene
The
Office
of
New
Chinese
2
"
"
Scene
Agency.
4
II.
Act
Scene
Sherries'
Chinatown.
i
office of Bluff and
York.
Scene
Law
2
Shop, New
Garden
of the Sound
Proof
The
Coimtry
Scene
3
Morton.
by Lew
Staged
Detective
Blinkerton
Year's
Tiffin
Club.
Act
Riverside
Bronson,
Kyra
Gibbs
Martin
Nancy
Blinckerton
John
Maxa
Hughes
Vase
Gray
Dale
Adelaide
Johnny
Foo
Spirit
Keno
Kitty Kelly
T.
Murray
.Joe Smith
John
Cheatham
Ching
Purcella
Mann
Louis
Mingtoy
The
Purcella
Raymond
Icabod
Bronson
I. Ketchum
U.
Ward
Cilenville
Shaun
Rattsi
Kissie
Murray
Dorothy
Sniffkins
Count
Count
Tudd
Redding
Eugene
Eve
"
in
"
"
"
"
THAT
PLAYS
HUNDRED
HAVE
FIVE
OVER
RUN
ON
PERFORMANCES
BROADWAY
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Cohoes,
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Allen,
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Himtsville,
Ames,
Robert
Hartford,
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Margaret
Macl}^!
Arbuckle,
Arthur,
George
Jnilia
Ottawa,
San
London,
Hamilton,
Syracuse,
Atwill,
Lionel
London,
Bacon,
Frank
California
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Barrymore,
Barrymore,
Barrymore,
BEST
PLAYS
1883
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1880
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London,
1878
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England
Portland,
Ore
San
Beban,
George
Beecher, Janet
San
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Francisco,
Chicago,
David
1873
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Milwaukee,
Nora
Belasco,
Ben-Ami,
1920-1921
Philadelphia, Pa
Philadephia, Pa
Ethel
Bates, Blanche
Bayes,
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1873
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Bennett,
Wilda
Bernard,
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Amelia
Bingham,
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Hickville,
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1900
Calif
1872
Calif..
1896
1865
York
San
Francisco,
St.
John's,
Brian,
Donald
land
Newfound1880
Byron,
New
1893
Washington,
Arthur
New
Carle, Rfichard
C.
D.
1886
.
N.
Brooklyn,
Eddie
Cantor,
York
.
1872
York
1894
SomerviUe,
Mass.
.
Carlisle, Alexandra
Yorkshire,
Cawthorne,
Joseph
New
York
Chatterton,
Rnith
New
York
Claire,
Ina
Clarke,
Cohan,
Rose
George
Collier, Constance.
Collier, William
CoUinge,
Patricia
Conroy, Frank
Corthell, Herbert
.Windsor,
New
England.
R.
1897
1887
England
.1882
.
1893
Petersboro,
Providence,
1871
1868
D.
Washington,
Ohio
Cincinnati,
Marguerite
Coghlan,
England.
York
1850
1878
1882
1866
Dublin,
London,
Ireland
Boston,
Mass
England
1894
1879
1875
'
WHERE
AND
BORN
WHEN
Courtenay, William
Courtleigh, William
Cowlr Jane
H
Crane, William
Craven, Frank
Crews, Laura
Hope
Crosman, Henrietta
Crothers, Rachel
John
Cumberland,
457
Worcester, Mass
Guelph, Ont
Boston, Mass
Leicester, Mass
Boston, Mass
San
1875
1867
.1890
1845
1876
Francisco
Wheeling, W.
Bloomington,
St. John, N. B
Va
1865
111
1879
Philadelphia, Pa
Dale, Margaret
Brooklyn, N. Y
Daly, Arnold
Hazel
Ogden, Utah
Dawn,
Minneapolis, Minn
Day, Edith
San Francisco, Calif.
De
Angehs, Jefferson.
St. Paul, Minn
Dean, Julia
.Belgium
De
Belleville, Frederic.
York
New
De
Cordoba, Pedro
phicago. 111.
Dickson, Dorothy
Missoula, Mont
Dinehart, Alan
Hungary.
Temesbar,
Ditrichstein, Leo
Boston, Mass
Dixey, Henry E
London, England
Dodson, John E
York
Donnelly, Dorothy Agnes.New
Cobourg, Canada
Dressier, Marie
Philadelphia, Pa
Drew, John
.
York
Drew,
Louise
New
Dunn,
Emma
England
San
Minnie
City,
New
York
Baltimore,
.Rockland,
.
Mo
Conn
Hartford,
Clare
Eddinger, Wallace
Edeson, Robert
Elliott, Maxine.
Eltinge,Julian
John
Emerson,
Francisco
Kansas
Eagels, Jeanne
Eames,
1875
1891
1899
1859
1880
1857
Dupree,
1880
1865
1850
1857
1880
1869
1853
1884
1875
1875
1892
1896
1883
1868
Me
187 1
1883
1874
Mass
.Sandusky,
1898
1889
Md
Boston,
1881
Ohio
4S8
THE
PLAYS
BEST
Errol, Leon
Ewell,
Lois
Fairbanks,
Famum,
Douglas
Dustin
Hodge,
Australia
Denver,
Colo
Chicago,
Tenn
1885
1883
.
1868
1885
1867
lU
1892
Wyoming
Orleans, La
Ohio
Sandusky,
St. Louis, Mo
New
York
Hartford,
1883
1867
1850
1883
City
1883
1856
Conn
England
Alleghany, Pa
Ulverston, England.
Wolfe
Island, Ont
Ind
Muncie,
Budapest, Hungary.
.Chicago, 111
Fort
la
Madison,
1875
1883
.New
Brookl}^!, N.
Washington,
1901
1874
.
.1884
,
1869
1870
.
Y
D.
C.
.
1891
1872
1883
1879
1902
Sweden
London, England
Leeds, England
Dublin, Ireland
Boston, Mass
1883
New
i860
York
N. Y
Auburn,
.Albion, N. Y
William.
.
Sydney,
Memphis,
Beach, N. H.
Hampton
Melrose, Mass
Warwickshire,
England.
New
York
City
New
York
City
New
York
City
New
York
City
Ferguson, Elsie
Fields, Lewis
Figmari, Max
Findlay, Ruth
Fisher, Lola
Fisher, Sallie
Maddem
Fiske, Minnie
Daniel
Frohman,
Fulton, Maude
George, Grace
Gillette, William
Giknore,
Margalo
Glaser, Lulu
Glendinning, Ernest
Hackett, James K
T
Haines, Robert
Hajos, Mitzi
Closser
Hale, Louise
Hale
Hamilton,
Walter
Hampden,
Hayes, Helen
Martha
Hedman,
Heggie, O. P
Violet
Heming,
Herbert, Victor
Heme,
Chrystal
S
HilUard, Robert
Hitchcock,
Raymond
1920-192]
...
Farrar, Geraldine
William
Faversham,
;
OF
1894
1859
1870
i8'74
WHERE
Hopper, DeWolf
Wallace.
Hopper, Edna
Holmes, Taylor
Eileen
Huban,
Hull, Henry
BORN
WHEN
AND
New
459
1858
York
Francisco, Calif..
N. J
Newark,
Loughrea, Ireland
Louisville, Ky
.San
.
111
Illington,Margaret
Bloomington,
Janis, Elsie
Joel, Clara
Jolson, Al
Delaware, Ohio
Jersey City
Washington, D.
Keane,
Kosta,
Michigan
Chicago,
Doris
Tessa
Lackaye, Wilton
Larrimore, Francine
La
Rue,
Grace
York
New
York
1883
1885
1895
1882
Mack, Andrew
Mack, Willard
Mackay, Elsie
Helen
MacKellar,
Louis
Mann,
Mantell, Robert
Boston,
Fania
1862
Trenton, N. J
London, England
Marinoff
1889
111.
Margaret
Lawrence,
LeGallienne, Eva
Lewis, Ada
New
1874
.'1872
1895
1893
1881
Virginia
New
1894
187
York
1863
1873
Mass
Ontario, Canada
London, England
1893
Canada
New
B
City
York
Ayrshire,
Scotland
....
1865
1854
Russia
Julia
Marlowe,
Mclntyre, Frank
McRae,
Bruce
Mercer, Beryl
Miller, Henry
Miller, Marilynn
Mitchell, Grant
Moores,
Clara
Miuphy,
Tim
England
Caldbeck,
Ann
Arbor,
Mich
London,
London,
England
England
England
Dayton,
Ohio
London,
Ohio
Columbus,
Omaha,
Rupert,
Neb
Vt
....
1879
1864
1859
1900
1874
1897
BEST
THE
46o
Nash,
Florence
Nash,
Mary
Olcott, Chauncey
O'Neill, Nance
Georgia
O'Ramey,
1920-1921
OF
Crimea, Russia
Alia
Nazimova,
PLAYS
1879
Providence, R.
Calif
OaHand,
Mansfield, Ohio
1862
1875
1886
Painter, Eleanor
Pennington, Ann
Post, Guy Bates
Powers, Tyrone
WalkerviUe, la
Philadelphia, Pa
i8go
1898
Seattle, Wash
1875
Rambeau,
San
Reed,
Ring,
Marjorie
Amy
Blanche
Roberts,
Theodore
Robson,
May
"
Pa
1883
Mass
1880
Boston,
Mass
1876
Francisco, Calif
1861
"
Australia
Boston,
1868
Ma,ss
1875
Belgium
.Liverpool
Russell, Annie
Russell, Lillian
1884
Boston,
San
Ross, Thomas
Rubens,
Jose
Ryan,
1869
Calif
Francisco,
Philadelphia,
Florence
Richard,
England
London,
Clinton,
1886
1864
Iowa
i860
Mary
Sanderson,
Springfield,Mass
1887
SchefE, Fritzi
Vienna
1879
Scott, Cyril
Ireland
1866
Sears, Zelda
Mich
Brockway,
Cincinnati, Ohio
Mass
Cambridge,
1873
1875
Bukarest
1896
1876
Selwyn,
Julia
Edgar
Shannon,
Effie
Shildkraut, Joseph
Sidney, George
Skinner, Otis
Sothem,
Stahl,
Edward
Rose
Starr, Frances
New
York.
.....'
Mass..
Cambridgeport,
H
1867
.1857
La
1864
Montreal, Canada
Oneonta, N. Y
1872
New
Orleans,
1886
WHERE
AND
WHEN
Stevens, Emily
Stone, Fred
New
BORN
York
New
York
New
York
New
York
New
York
New
York
Ulric, Lenore
Valentine, Grace
New
Louis,
Baltimore,
St.
Kan
1877
City
City
City
City
City
1892
San
Jr
1859
1887
....
1903
....
Calif
N.
111
1874
1872
1890
1879
1897
1892
1891
1866
"
1875
England
Logansport, Ind
.Philadelphia, Pa
York
New
City
England
Philadelphia, Pa
England
Chicago, 111
Chicago,
1901
Ind
Francisco, Calif
London,
1894
Minn
Ulm,
England
Brooklyn,
.
1892
York
Sacramento,
Westley, Helen
Whiffen, Mrs. Thomas
Whiteside, Walker
Wilson, Francis
Forrest
Winant,
A
Wise, Tom
Wood, Peggy
Wycherley, Margaret
Olive
Wyndham,
1884
Md
Indianapolis,
Milan, Italy
Hungary
Warfield, David
Robert
Warwick,
Welford, Dallas
1887
Mo
City
New
York
City
Mo..
Warrensburg,
England
Denver, Colo
Dublin, Ireland
New
Varesi, Gilda
Victor, Josephine
Ziegfeld, Florenz,
City
Wellington,
Taliaferro, Edith
Taliaferro, Mabel
Taylor, Laurette
Tell, Ahna
Tell, Olive
Thomas,
Augustus
Thomas,
John Charles
Tobin, Genevieve
Tobin, Vivian
Toler, Sidney
Trevor, Norman
Truex, Ernest
Tynan, Brandon
461
1845
1869
1854
1888
1865
1893
1883
1886
1867
NECROLOGY
Qune
Anderson
George
Boston
Brown,
Opera
June
18,
Joseph
1921)
15,
Oldest
81.
actor,
Company.
Died,
member
of
Providence,
R.
I.,
1920.
Conyers,
New
1920-June
IS,
Gained
60.
actor,
Minister."
Died,
fame
New
in
York,
"Our
June
26,
1920.
Clarence
Holt,
Girl"
"Honey
July
s,
Charles
Fitz,
for
Ritter,
Aug.
J.
3,
N.
Charles
Aug.
Charles
New
July
14,
York,
of
1920.
in
Jiily
Died,
62.
1920.
Theater
Club
Frochard
as
New
10,
19,
Newark,
"The
1930.
N.
J.,
of
Father
70.
Died,
G.
Eugene
New
London,
O'Neill,
Conn.,
1920.
Collier,
J., Aug.
T.
York,
with
1920.
actor,
10,
Treasurers'
Famed
Died,
plajrwright.
Walter
Pres.
playwright,
O'Neill,
the
New
80.
actress,
August
James
years.
Orphans."
P.
in
York,
man
Philadelphia,, Ji4y
of Wallack's
Treasurer
Died,
Rosa,
John
New
Died,
forty-two
Two
playing
leading
Formerly
J. Scullion.
America.
Nera
while
Died,
season.
actor.
Russell.
H.
James
last
sick
1920.
E.
Lillian
Taken
actor.
20,
Butler,
York,
Died,
Long
Branch,
1920.
Buckley,
25,
60.
manager,
manager.
Died,
New
York,
1920.
actor,
Aug.
64.
27,
Fifty
1920.
463
years
on
stage.
Died,
THE
464
Robert
PLAYS
BEST
Harron,
actor,
of
Birth
"The
OF
1920-1921
Gained
27.
Nation"
in
prominence
and
"Intolerance."
Alf
minstrel,
Gibson,
Died,
60.
Philadelphia, Pa.,
17,
Ada
1920.
Deaves,
actress,
Died, New
64.
York,
Sept. 18,
1920.
A.
Harry
in
Porter,
"Little
actor,
52.
Puck."
1920.
John
W.
of
24,
of
Society
York, Sept.
1920.
William
dramatist,
Young,
and
"The
wrote
N.
H., Oct.
William
2,
Died,
Rajah."
Ben
Hur
Burkhaven,
1920.
Lestoiq, actor,
for
Dramatized
73.
Charles
London
manager.
Frohman.
Died,
tive
representa-
London,
Oct.
16, 1920.
Oliver
La
Doud
Frederick
Byron, actor, 77.
Bom,
City,
N.
Oct.
Md.;
died. Long Branch,
Y.,
22,
1920.
Rosa
Member
of original
Herman,
actress, 79.
"Black
Crook"
New
Died,
York,
company.
Nov.
George
New
4,
1920.
Giddens,
York,
actor,
Nov.
21,
75.
1920.
Bom,
England;
died,
NECROLOGY
Rachel
Barton
Affair"
Nov.
465
Butler, dramatist.
and
24,
other
Author
plays.
"
of
Mamma's
Died, Greenwich,
Conn.,
1920.
Kate
Widow
Bjrron, actress, 75.
of
Doud
Oliver
Byron.
Died, Montclair, N. J., Dec. 21, 1920.
Frederick
Brother
Belasco, manager.
of David
Belasco.
Died, San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 21, 1920.
Wife
actress.
of Albert
Hemdon,
Andruss.
Agnes
White
Bom,
Sulphur Springs, Va. ; died. WhiteL.
stone,
Charles
M.
Stock
William
7,
Died, New
York,
1.
Jan.
1921.
Richard
Domey,
manager,
for
Theater
many
Treasurer
79.
years.
Died,
of Lyceum
New
York,
Jan.
16, 1921.
Nixbn,
Hugh
G.
York
New
Emerson,
Feb.
of
II,
many
New
Died,
drama.
New
Times,
author
papers;
Mary
World.
York,
actress.
Feb.
England;
Louise
1.
192
critic
and
World
books
on
for
music
the
other
and
the
York,
Music
critic for
Evening
died,
England;
New
1.
49.
Died
Kills, S. I.,
Great
1921.
Gresham,
Herbert
Annie
Saltash,
Bom,
18,
York
forty-four
1921.
16, 192
Stanford, actor,
Feb.
for
stage
Henry
the
years.
James
On
62.
actor,
actor,
Motmt
died,
director,
Vernon,
singer, 65.
Tanner,
68.
London,
Bom,
Feb.
Died,
23,
1921.
New
York,
with
E.
Feb.
Hugh
28, 1921.
Brady, actor,
Sothem.
1921.
Died,
40.
Formerly
Greenwich,
played
Conn.,
March
H.
4,
M.
Paul
and
1920-1921
Dramatized
67.
of
adapter
Trilby;
Born,
plays.
York,
many
died.
England;
Brighton,
7.
dramatist,
Potter,
author
OF
PLAYS
BEST
THE
466
New
March
1921.
George
Marcellus,
W.
Pa., March
8,
William
Lawrence,
Old
Played
March
Boston,
Howard,
Samuel
17,
17,
actor,
Cousin"
Lincoln
55.
Died,
87.
Member
times.
Vancouver,
of
"Our
in Washington
company
Died,
shot.
was
thousand
1921.
Chester,
American
Josh in "The
1921.
manager,
March
K.
Uncle
three
over
Died,
Wash.,
Philadelphia,
1921.
actor.
Homestead"
George
Died,
80.
actor,
New
when
March
York,
19,
1921.
Haddon
Charles
"The
of
Tyranny
Saving
dramatist,
Chambers,
and
Grace"
Australia,
"The
Tears,"
other
of
"The
Idler,"
plays.
Died,
1863.
Author
60.
Sydney,
Bom,
March
London,
28,
1921.
Julie Opp
Faversham,
Faversham.
York,
Charles
J. Rich,
Julius Cahn,
Alf
13,
Hayman,
manager,
managers
in
in
Bom,
Gustav
14,
Place
and
of
1855;
died. New
1;
Boston
men.
show-
died, Boston,
dviring
1.
Theatrical
of
Cahn
circuit.
Died,
Guide.
the
One
56-
New
Fort
York
firm
W.
and
of
the
best-known
reputed
of
Charles
Va.,
1865;
to
be
Frohman,
died. New
silent
Inc.
York,
1.
192
Amberg,
Dean
William
of
1921.
Wheeling,
May
187
Organizer
Cahn's
Lee, May
partner
192
13,
manager.
Publisher
York,
66.
Boston,
May
Wife
50.
1921.
manager,
Bom,
of
New
Bom,
April 8,
week
actress,
manager,
Theater
formerly
(formerly
manager
Builder
77.
the
of
of
Amberg),
German
the
New
Irving
York,
theaters
in
NECROLOGY
Detroit
died,
Frank
and
New
Mills,
Olga
Bom,
Cincinnati.
York,
actor,
Jime
24,
Prominent
51.
Mrs.
Mich.,
II,
1921.
Prague,
Bom,
May
Nethersole,
Kendal,
467
Fiske
1870;
1844;
1921.
as
and
died,
leading
Grace
Michigan
for
man
George.
tarium,
Sani-
OF
INDEX
"Afgar,"
402
in France, The"
"Americans
Ascends,"
"Anna
"Bab,"
"Bad
363
384
397
The''
Man,
374
371
"Bat, The"
The"
416
Opera,
"Beggar's
448
"Biff!
Bing! Bang!"
"Blue
Bonnet," 373
"Blue
Eyes," 428
"Bridges," 431
Brevities,"388
"Broadway
Whirl, The" 4S3
"Broadway
409
Wing, The"
"Broken
356
Around,"
"Buzzin'
CASTS
AND
PLAYS
"Deburau," 414
"Diff'rent,"417
"Don't
Tell," 387
Year, The"
Leave,"
"First
"French
Doctor," 37s
369
"Cave
Girl, The"
The"
359
"Century Revue,
The"
417
"Champion,
The"
362
School,
"Charm
The"
369
"Checkerboard,
Love,"432
"Chinese
431
Rehearsal,"
"Choir
the
"Cinderella
"Clair
"Come
on
Lune," 442
Seven," 358
de
"Cornered,"
"Crooked
"Daddy
"Dear
Broadway," 356
377
436
The"
Carmine
Lips,
366
Spotlight,The"
the
in
"Gold,"
357
452
Times," 36s
422
"Green
Goddess, The"
Village Follies,The"
"Greenwich
"Good
374
"Guest
of
Honor, The"
383
"Half
"Hero, The"
"Hitchy-Koo,
"Honeydew,"
361
Dumplins," 406
Me,"
the
With
The"
410
Gamblers,"
402
Between,
"Ghost
"Girl
398
the Crowd,"
and
"Genius
"Girl
"Call
"**
399
"Emperor Jones, The"
366
"Enter
Madame,"
"Erminie," 418
"Eyvind of the Hills,"432
"Immodest
421
469
434
1920"
397
377
Violet,"370
Being Earnest,
"Importance of
The"
"In the
PLAYS
OF
INDEX
47"
CASTS
"New
Morality,
"Nice
People,"
Watch,"
Night
You,"
to
"Kissing Time,"
"One," 382
"Opportunity," 360
Palmer,
"Outrageous Mrs.
439
372
"Pagans," 419
The"
416
of 1921,
"Passing Show
"Peg o' My Heart," 426
of Quality Street," 448
"Phcebe
392
Patter," 387
"Last
Waltz, The"
368
"Poor
449
Miss
"Little
Old
435
428,
"Macbeth,"
443
People, A"
the
of
379
403
"Mandarin,
385
Poor
Girl,"
the
"Marry
"Mary," 396
Rose," 414
"Mary
437
Stuart,"
"Mary
the
in
World,
Man
"Meanest
39S
"Mecca,"
"Merchants
386
Venus,"
Rounders,
"Midnight
The"
42s
"Mirage,
"Mr.
"Mixed
the Pauper,
Virtue," 447
and
The"
Pirn
389
Bett,"
Lulu
430
"Romance,"
Girl, The"
"Rose
Passes
Marriage,"
The"
359
400
430
412
355
House, The"
446
Along," 450
Satins," 358
"Shuffle
"Silks
and
"Skin
Game,
The"
398
Silk," 429
1921,"
"Snapshots
"Spanish Love," 366
"Smooth
415
By,"
in the
"Servant
357,
426
44s
"Sacrifice,The"
"Sally," 413
and
Delilah," 405
"Samson
364
Wives,"
"Scrambled
"Seeing Things,"
390
of
Girl, The"
The"
"Miss
Little Ritz
"Princess
Charity," 376
New
York," 380
Birds,"
The"
441
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