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With the production of “The Detour,” about a year ago, I managed to secure some measure of success in drawing a simple picture of life as it is lived on a Long Island farm; encouraged by this, I am now turning toward my own people, the people of northern New England, whose folklore, up to the present time, has been quite neglected in our theatre. I mean, of course, that few serious attempts have been made in the direction of a genre comedy of this locality. Here I have at least tried to draw a true picture of these people, and I am of their blood, born of generations of Northern Maine, small-town folk, and brought up among them. In my memory of them is little of the “Rube” caricature of the conventional theatre; they are neither buffoons nor sentimentalists, and at least neither their faults nor their virtues are borrowed from the melting pot but are the direct result of their own heritage and environment.

Owen Davis.

1923.

ICEBOUND

“Icebound” was originally produced in New York, February 10, 1923, with the following cast:

Henry Jordan	John Westley
Emma, his wife	Lotta Linthicum
Nettie, her daughter by a former marriage	Boots Wooster
Sadie Fellows, once Sadie Jordan, a widow	Eva Condon
Orin, her son	Andrew J. Lawlor, Jr.
Ella Jordan, the unmarried sister	Frances Neilson
Doctor Curtis	Lawrence Eddinger
Jane Crosby, a second cousin of the Jordans	Phyllis Povah
Judge Bradford	Willard Robertson
Ben Jordan	Robert Ames
Hannah	Edna May Oliver
Jim Jay	Charles Henderson

ACT ONE.

The Parlor of the Jordan Homestead, 4 P.M., October, 1922.

ACT TWO.

The Sitting Room of the Jordan Homestead, Two months later. Afternoon.

ACT THREE.

Same as Act I, Late in the following March.