Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
SCENE.—_Handsome apartment in the house of_ COLONEL GRAHAM _in_ BALTIMORE. _Door opening into hall, centre. Wide window_, R.C. _Mantel with fireplace_ L. _in flat. Glass over mantel. Door_ R. _in flat. Table_ L.C. _Lamp on table, books. Chair beside table_ L. _Arm-chair near m...
SCENE.—_Handsome apartment in the house of_ COLONEL GRAHAM _in_ BALTIMORE. _Door opening into hall, centre. Wide window_, R.C. _Mantel with fireplace_ L. _in flat. Glass over ma...
3. SCENE I.—_Encampment of Union troops at Harrison's Landing one weeklater; time, noon. View of James River at back._ COLONEL GRAHAM'S _tent_, L.C., _opening facing audience. Trees_ R. _and_ L.; _fallen log_ R. _Campstool outside tent; inside, ta...
4. SCENE II.—_Same as Scene I. Evening._ KILROY _has been relieved;PETE (_discovered lighting candle in_ COLONEL'S _tent_). Golly, I feels powerful big, I does, wid dis yer coat ob de colonel's. 'Specs some time, dey will mistook us, and I gets...
5. ACT III.POLLY. Now, Pete, make everything bright and cheerful. Mr. Roger is expected home to-night; we must do our share towards a warm welcome. The poor colonel is so unhappy. Between...
6. PART I.=A NATIONAL FLAG DRILL= (As presented by children in Belmont, Mass., at a Fair given by the Arachne, in December, 1888. Also as given by ten young ladies of the Unity Club, in W...
7. ACT I. Kitchen in Jedediah's house. A stormy night. Family jar.Jedediah's return. A much abused man. “Hain't I been wrecked with floods, an' blizzards, an' hurricanes, an' every other calamity under the sun?” Dissatisfied with his sphere in...
8. ACT II. Room in Markham's mansion. Jedediah awakes from his stupor.A bewildered man. “What—on—airth—Why! where am I, anyhow!” Female servants not wanted. Believes himself to be dreaming and endeavors to awake. “I've hern tell if you could shout...
9. ACT III. Same as Act I. Conundrums. “Why do some ladies who do uptheir hair imitate a rooster?” The Dutchman's conundrum. “Vy does der hen move his head back und forth vhen she vhalks?” Something about baseball. Jedediah awakes. “I've had a d...
10. ACT I. Capt. Oliphant's home in the North. An unfinished honeymoon. Thecall of duty. A wife's anguish. “My hand girt on the sword that will be raised against my father!” The rebel spy. THE STOLEN DESPATCHES. “He is Madge's father! Rather a thousand...
11. ACT II. SCENE I. Irish and negro. Colored dentistry. SCENE II. Theprison. A little story over a bottle of wine. “I understand. Good bye, old friend, and may Heaven bless you.” THE ESCAPE. A shot in the dark. “Now, my lady Madge, by fair or fou...
12. SCENE III. Dead to the world. A wife's devotion. “I must bear it13. ACT III. SCENE I. The camp. “If I could only hear from Madge!” Theflower girl. The price of a passport. “I pay it, but to only one.” Husband and wife. “What is this woman to you?” A conundrum whose answer is death. “For the love of Heaven, get...
14. ACT III. _Scene I_: O'Byrnes' Wood. The purty girl milking her cow.Barney proposes to Ileen. Desmond hears bad news. Barney, in the guise of a soldier, gets important information from Cary. _Scene II_: Exterior of Beck's Castle by moonlight. Ro...
15. ACT IV. _Scene_: Corrigmór at Sunrise. Shaun Cary a captive. The