Category: Humour

Lively plays for live people

☞ Though this play has full stage directions, it may be presented in any hall, or large parlor even. Two doors for exit and entrance is the main requirement. Owing to the style of type the play is not so long as it seems.

Chapters

1. ACT III. “Yes, Topp old boy, you are in love for the first time in

2. ACT IV. The duel. The finding of the Twins.

☞ Though this play has full stage directions, it may be presented in any hall, or large parlor even. Two doors for exit and entrance is the main requirement. Owing to the style...

3. ACT I.

SCENE. _Home of MR. TOPP. Handsome sitting room of a wealthy man. Doors R. & L. in 1 E. (N. B.—Street door is always L., way to interior of house always R.); also door in flat C...

4. ACT II.

SCENE. _House of JOSIAH TWIGGS. Cozy sitting room. Doors in 1 R. and L, window by door R and in flat. Furniture that of family in comfortable circumstances. Table near window up...

5. ACT III.

MRS. T-K. Oh, I’m in such a state! What if Angie is right after all and Mr. Topp is in love with _her_? (_Sighs._) Ah, well! I _did_ think he admired me and then his asking me t...

6. ACT IV.

MR. T. My dear, I can’t say that I enjoy it so far. Our walk in search of it has been rather hurried. They should have hired a hall and sold tickets.

7. ACT I.

SCENE—_Club rooms handsomely furnished. Entrance R. in 1; door to dressing room R. in 3; screen to guard last door; chair of President and small desk, up C; table of Secretary l...

8. ACT II.

PINK T. Why, here _is_ a letter. That’s strange; my mail comes to my business office. (_Opens letter, reads._) Why, from that Mr. Blake of the Gas Company. Dear me! I wrote him...

9. ACT III.

MARY. (_Discovered as curtain rises._) Alfaretta is very negligent of her work lately. There’s the flowers for the president put away in the corner instead of on the desk, as th...

10. ACT II. Cabin of ROGERS & VANCE, Gunnison county, Colorado. “There’s a

11. ACT III. Hotel, Indian River, Florida. Two wanderers and a bride and

_R._ means right of the stage; _C._, center; _R. C._, right center; _L._, left; _1 E._, first entrance; _U. E._, upper entrance, etc.; _D. F._, door in flat or back of the stage...

12. ACT III.

SCENE—_Reception room of tourist hotel, Florida; folding doors in flat C.; piano by wall, R.; settee by wall, L., table C. littered with old periodicals, and some oranges in bas...