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A Comedy in Three Acts
ОглавлениеNew York: Astor Theatre: Produced by Selwyn & Company,
Dec. 25, 1917, under the direction of Roi Cooper Megrue.
The scene is a week-end at a country house not far away; the time,
Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning, and Sunday evening.
THE PEOPLE AT THE HOUSE
(As You Meet Them)
| JEAN, the host's younger sister, who has been brought up to be married and nothing else | LOTUS ROBB |
| REX, an unmarried neighbor, who has not been brought up to be anything but rich | HAROLD WEST |
| LUCY, the hostess, who is trying her best to be "just an old-fashioned wife" in a new-fashioned home, | BEATRICE BECKLEY |
| UNCLE EVERETT, a Judge, who belongs to the older generation and yet understands the new—and believes in divorce | NAT C. GOODWIN |
| COUSIN THEODORE, a clergyman and yet a human being, who believes in everything—except divorce, | ERNEST LAWFORD |
| JOHN, who owns the house and almost every one in it—and does not believe in divorce | EDMUND BREESE |
| HELEN, the host's other sister, whom every one wants to marry, but who doesn't want to marry any one, | ESTELLE WINWOOD |
| ERNEST, a scientist, who believes in neither divorce nor marriage but makes a great discovery | SHELLEY HULL (By arrangement with George C. Tyler) |
| THE BUTLER | RICHARD PITMAN |
| THE FOOTMAN | WALTER GOODSON |
