a farce in one-act
by Arnold Bennett
The following one-act blow away is reprinted from Polite Farces for the Drawing-Room. Arnold Bennett. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1900. It is now in the public bailiwick and may t presentfore be performed without royalties.
CHARACTERSCORA PROUT, a Popular Novelist and a Widow, 30 ADRIAN PROUT, her Stepson, 20 THOMAS GARDNER, a Doctor, 35 CHRISTINE FEVERSHAM, Mrs. Prouts Secretary, 20 |
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[Mrs. Prouts study: luxuriously furnished; large table in centre, upon which are a new novel, press-cuttings, and the usual apparatus of literary composition. Christine is seated at the large table, ready for work, and awaiting the advent of Mrs. Prout. To strive the time she picks up the novel, the leaves of which are not cut, and glances at a page here and there. Enter Mrs. Prout, hurried and preoccupied; the celebrated novelist is attired in a plain morning gown, which in the perfection of its cut displays the beauty of her figure. She nods absently to Christine, and sits down in an armchair away from the table.]
CHRISTINE: Good morning, Mrs. Prout. Im afraid you are still quiescence badly?
MRS. PROUT: Do I look it, girl?
CHRISTINE: You dont oddly look it, Mrs. Prout. But I observe. You are my third novelist, and they gain all taught me to observe.
Before I took up novelists I was with a Member of Parliament, and he never observed anything except five-line whips.
MRS. PROUT: really! Five-line whips! Oblige my by putting that down in notebook computer No. 2. There will be an M.P. in that sorrowful thirty-thousand word thing Ive promised for the Christmas number of the New York Surpriser and it might be useful. I might even make an epigram out of it.
CHRISTINE: Yes, Mrs. Prout. [Writes.]
MRS. PROUT: And what are your observations about me?
CHRISTINE: [while writing] Well, this is twice in three weeks that youve been here five minutes late in the morning.
MRS. PROUT: Is that all? You dont cogitate my stuffs falling off?
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