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Five Little Plays
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Five Little Plays, by Alfred Sutro This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
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 wi