The Drama (Volume 25-28) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1917. Excerpt: ... COWARDS ACT I Scene 1 The Wainwrights' apartment on the first floor of a small flat-building. It is an ordinary, middle-class sitting-room. At the right, toward the front, is the entrance door, and farther back, the door to the bedroom. Between them stands a high bookcase desk, with dull-colored volumes, and in front of it a sofa. At the back are two windows, with a mantel between them on which are two Chinese vases, a match stand, a cigar holder, and, in the center, a square black clock with a bronze figure on it. On each side of the mantel is a gas jet. At the left is the door to the dining-room. Near it stands a piano, and behind it is the door to the bedroom. At the batpk, two rocking-chairs are drawn in front of a Franklin open stove, with a small fire. In the center of the room is a table with a student lamp, a pipe tray, a tobacco jar, some books and papers. Above the mantel hangs a picture, "Rock of Ages," and above the piano a crayon portrait of Captain Wainwbight. Other small pictures are on the walls, photographs of ugly people, and "God Bless Our Home" worked in colored worsteds on cardboard. A worn ingrain carpet covers the floor. Sitting before the stove are Captain Wainwright and his wife. The captain is a man of fifty or more, with gray hair and white, short beard. He is stocky and vigorous, with red, weather-beaten cheeks and blue, heavy-browed eyes. He speaks in a gruff voice of command. His left leg is supported by a chair, and when he walks he limps. Beside him is a heavy cane. He uses spectacles as he reads his newspaper, but takes them off when speaking. He wears a shabby house coat and old slippers, and is smoking a long meerschaum pipe. Mrs. Wainwbight sits opposite. She is several years younger, thin, worn, timid, and kind. She also uses glasses as she mends...