THE CHARACTERS
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The Prolog
ROBERT DORR
SIDNEY HASTINGS
JACK NORGATE
BILLY FANSHAWE
PERCY MIDDLETON
HAROLD WESTBROOK
Mrs. SARA KEENE
ELEANOR RICHMOND, her niece
MARIAN WINTHROP
MARGARET THURBER
ROSE LOWELL
GERTRUDE PASTON
Scene I
MONSIEUR D’OR
RAOUL LEHMANN
FRÉDÉRIC LEHMANN, his brother
M. BERTINE, their secretary
M. ALBERT
M. LORRAINE
ADRIENNE COURTEAUX
CÉLESTE BERGÈRE
M. FRÉMIET
Scene II
MONSIEUR D’OR
ADOLPHE LEMAIRE
JEAN MOREAU
HENRI VAUX
HÉLÈNE VAUX, his daughter
Mme. CYPRIENNE DACIER
Mme. LUCETTE CLARY
BAPTISTE, a servant
8Scene III
MONSIEUR D’OR
SIR MORTIMER MUIRHEAD
Mr. GILBERT, his secretary
BARON GRAEFFLINGEN
Herr LOBEN, his secretary
MARQUIS PALLOT
COUNT ANDRIEV
CLAIRE LASALLE, a stenographer
Scene IV
MONSIEUR D’OR
Dr. MIRSKY
RAMANAND, an Oriental
CYRIL, a boy
EDITH PACKARD, a nurse
Epilog
ROBERT DORR
Mr. MATHEWS
ELEANOR RICHMOND
Mr. HANSON, her secretary
The forty characters may be distributed among thirteen players. See note on page 10.
9THE PROLOG
A terrace adjoining the Dorr Villa at Lenox.
SCENE I
The office of Lehmann Frères, St. Gallen.
SCENE II
The music room of the Chateau D’Or, near Versailles.
SCENE III
A private parlor in the Hotel Royal, Interlaken.
SCENE IV
A chamber in a Balkan palace.
THE EPILOG
A parlor in the Hotel Orient, Port Said.
Fifteen years elapse between the Prolog and the Epilog.
10NOTE
The forty characters may be distributed among thirteen players as follows:
Prol. Sc. I Sc. II Sc. III Sc. IV Epil.
Dorr D’or D’or D’or D’or Dorr
Westbrook R. Lehmann Lemaire Muirhead Ramanand
Hastings F. Lehmann Moreau Gilbert Mirsky Hanson
Fanshawe Bertine Loben Mathews
Norgate Albert Baptiste Pallot
Middleton Frémiet Andriev
Lorraine Vaux Graefflingen
Mrs. Keene
Eleanor Adrienne Hélène Claire Edith Eleanor
Marian Céleste
Margaret Cyprienne
Gertrude Lucette
Rose Cyril
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MONSIEUR D’OR