Three Plays (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF M. DUPONT [Les Trois Filles de M. Dupont] Translated by ST. JOHN HANKIN Cast of the original production before the Stage Society at the King's Hall, London, on March 12, 13 and 14, 1905. Mme. Dupont Kate Bishop Courthezon Leon M. Lion Caroline Italia Conti Julie Ethel Irving M. Dupont O. B. Clarence Justine Lois Crampton M. Mairaut Arthur Chesney Mme. Mairaut Agnes Thomas Antonin Mairaut Charles V. France Lignol Lewis Carson M. Pouchelet G. M. Graham Mme. Pouchelet Dora Barton Franchise Florence Adale Angele Gertrude BurnettACT I A very undistinguished room in a house in a French country town. The time is February. There is in the centre of the room, a table, with chairs round it; a fireplace on the left, and window on the right; a piano; lamps; a bronze statuette of Gutenberg; holland covers on the furniture. There are doors to right and left and at the back. Madame Dupont is discovered alone, darning stockings. After a moment or two Courtheson comes in, with some papers in his hand. Courthezon. . Why, you 're all alone, Madame Dupont ? Mme. Dupont. Yes, M. Courthezon. Courthezon. Your young ladies are listening to the band? Mme. Dupont. No: Julie has gone to pay a call, and Caroline is at Benediction. She goes every Sunday. Courthezon. Oh, yes, of course. Mme. Dupont. On Sunday we never see her, except at dejeuner. The rest of the day she 's at church. I believe she never misses a service. And now she is one of the Enfants de Marie. At her age, too! Courthezon. How old is she ? Mme. Dupont. Thirty-three. Courthezon. And still very religious? Mme. Dupont. Very. Courthezon'. [nodding] Her mother was just the same. Mme. Dupont. You remember my husband's first wife? ...