Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
ZINA. She seems to stop mourning for Nelly when I sing to her, and her face lights up with the old smile as it used to do, when I used to come over to learn to read and sing.
1st SOL. Ah-r, what do you take us for? (_Barney takes bottle and attempts to drink. Finds it empty. Flings it out L. Spanks his hand on the floor. Soldiers laugh very loud._)
2. SCENE 2. _Cafe in Hotel Leon, Mobile._ MYERS _and_ BRIGHTLY _areMYERS. Exchange your cereals. Again,—if you had nothing to buy with, you wouldn’t buy. No matter how much you produce here, you are forced to part with it to feed your always fa...
11. SCENE 4. _Room covering whole stage._ Door at R. centre. Large box, R.BARNEY. The blackguard! Whin he was as big as I! And he called thim three spalpeens a coort, when it takes more than two dozen to make one er thim any day. (_Door opens R., rebe...
4. SCENE 2. _Landscape and Wood. Centre.SHERMAN. I am about to attempt the capture of Atlanta by a flank movement. I wish you to throw your Division forward and occupy that ridge on the right of the railway. I have or...
6. SCENE 1. _Landscape or wood back._ (_Enter Barney, L. U. E., peeringBARNEY. It’s to the river he would! The blackguard! ’Pon my word, I’ll bat that thafe! Now didn’t that little girrul be doing that well! The illegant little baste! And it’s so d...
7. SCENE 2. _Night._ Thunder storm rising. Flashes of lightning in thedistance. Heavy forest back. A river running through at rear, half hidden among the trees. A flat-roofed log hut in rear centre. A hole cut in the roof 2½ feet square, near fron...
8. SCENE 1. _Night._ Heavy forest. Gen. Sherman disc. looking away to R.SHERMAN. A terrible storm! The men must be wet and hungry. Orderly! (_Enter Ord. L. U. E._) Tell the commissary to hurry the hot coffee and fresh food to the front at once. (_Ex...
1. SCENE 1.—_Streets of Mobile._ D’ARNEAUX _discovered looking over someZINA. She seems to stop mourning for Nelly when I sing to her, and her face lights up with the old smile as it used to do, when I used to come over to learn to read and sing.
9. SCENE 2. _Gen. Hood’s headquarters._ Gen. seated at table, rear centre.HOOD. Lt. D’Arneaux, when you entered the military service, I believed that you would soon wear the stars of a division commander. Instead, you have presented us with the strang...
5. SCENE 3. _Night. Ordinary room, back. Window L, rear._ KEELE BRIGHTLYBARNEY. It’s the devil will pick your bones for you in the mornin’. Shoot him at daylight, sez the gineral, and he’ll be doin’ it too. Do you mind that! (_Brightly hangs his hea...
10. SCENE 3. _Landscape and wood front._ Enter Sally with pail, L., femaleSALLY. (_Looking about._) Now didn’t I wool that sargeant. I’ll bet he hain’t got brains enough for a mule. It takes seven hundred er them fellers to know as much as a Yankee. W...