ERN.
GENTLEMAN SUSAN.
ALICE.
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ACT I
The hall of MR. KNOWLE'S house. Evening.
ACT II
A glade in the wood. Morning.
ACT III
The hall again. Afternoon.
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This play was first produced by Mr. Arthur Wontner at the Comedy
Theatre on October 18, 1920, with the following cast:
Henry Knowle--A. BROMLEY-DAVENPORT.
Mary Knowle--LOTTIE VENNE.
Melisande--BARBARA HOFFE.
Jane--DOROTHY TETLEY.
Bobby--JOHN WILLIAMS.
Gervase Mallory--ARTHUR WONTNER.
Ern--ROY LENNOL.
Gentleman Susan--H.O. NICHOLSON.
Alice--IRENE RATHBONE.
THE ROMANTIC AGE
ACT I
(We are looking at the inner hall of MR. HENRY KNOWLE'S country house,
at about 9.15 of a June evening. There are doors R. and L.--on the
right leading to the drawing-room, on the left to the entrance hall,
the dining-room and the library. At the back are windows--French
windows on the right, then an interval of wall, then casement
windows.)
(MRS. HENRY KNOWLE, her daughter, MELISANDE, and her niece, JANE
BAGOT, are waiting for their coffee, MRS. KNOWLE, short and stoutish,
is reclining on the sofa; JANE, pleasant-looking and rather obviously
pretty, is sitting in a chair near her, glancing at a book; MELISANDE,
the beautiful, the romantic, is standing by the open French windows,
gazing into the night.
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