THE POT BOILER
Reading edition
A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS
By Upton Sinclair
Edited by E. Haldeman Julius
CHARACTERS IN THE "REAL-PLAY" Will ............................. The author Peggy ................Joint author and critic Bill ..................... Their son (aged 8) Dad ............................ Will's father Schmidt......................... The grocer The Policeman. The Landlady. CHARACTERS IN THE "PLAY-PLAY" Jack ........................ The adventurer Bob ............................. His cousin Dad .............................. His father Jessie.............................. His sister Gladys .......................... His fiancee Belle ............................. A waitress Dolly ............................. Her sister Bill .........................A street gamin Schmidt ................ A restaurant keeper The Policeman. The Landlady. A snow shoveller. A butler.
Note: The characters of Dad, Bill, Schmidt, the Landlady and the Policeman are the same in the Real and the Play-play. The character of Jack is played by Will, and that of Belle by Peggy.
CONTENTS
THE POT BOILER
ACT I.
ACT II.
ACT III.
ACT IV.
POSTSCRIPT