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Title: Five Little Plays
Author: Alfred Sutro
Release Date: December 29, 2004 [EBook #14519]
Language: English
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FIVE LITTLE PLAYS
FIVE LITTLE PLAYS
BY ALFRED SUTRO
BRENTANO
NEW YORK 1922
_Printed in Great Britain
by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh_
CONTENTS
THE MAN IN THE STALLS
A MARRIAGE HAS BEEN ARRANGED....
THE MAN ON THE KERB
THE OPEN DOOR
THE BRACELET
THE MAN IN THE STALLS
A PLAY IN ONE ACT
THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
HECTOR ALLEN
ELIZABETH ALLEN (BETTY)
WALTER COZENS
_This play was produced
at the Palace Theatre
on October 6, 1911_
THE MAN IN THE STALLS
_The sitting-room of a little flat in Shaftesbury Avenue. At back
is a door leading to the dining-room--it is open, and the
dinner-table is in full view of the audience. To the extreme
right is another door, leading to the hall._
_The place is pleasantly and prettily, though quite
inexpensively, furnished. To the left, at angles with the
distempered wall, is a baby-grand piano; the fireplace, in which
a fire is burning merrily, is on the same side, full centre. To
the right of the door leading to the dining-room is a small
side-table, on which there is a tray with decanter and glasses;
in front of this, a card-table, open, with two packs of cards on
it, and chairs on each side. Another table, a round one, is in
the centre of the room--to right and to left of it are