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HELEN: You're about the most conceited man I ever knew. ERNEST: How can I help it, when you admire me so? [_Page_ 94. ]
(Originally published under the title "And So They Were Married")
[Illustration: Banner Play Bureau 111 Ellis Street San Francisco, California]
COPYRIGHT, 1914, 1918, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
_New and revised edition published April, 1918_ _Reprinted September, 1918; February, 1919_
[All rights strictly reserved--including amateur acting rights.]
New York: Astor Theatre: Produced by Selwyn & Company, Dec. 25, 1917, under the direction of Roi Cooper Megrue.
The scene is a week-end at a country house not far away; the time, Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning, and Sunday evening.
THE PEOPLE AT THE HOUSE (As You Meet Them)
JEAN, the host's younger sister, who has been brought up to be married and nothing else LOTUS ROBB
REX, an unmarried neighbor, who has not been brought up to be anything but rich HAROLD WEST
LUCY, the hostess, who is trying her best to be "just an old-fashioned wife" in a new-fashioned home, BEATRICE BECKLEY
UNCLE EVERETT, a Judge, who belongs to the older generation and yet understands the new--and believes in divorce NAT C. GOODWIN
COUSIN THEODORE, a clergyman and yet a human being, who believes in everything--except divorce, ERNEST LAWFORD
JOHN, who owns the house and almost every one in it--and does not believe in divorce EDMUND BREESE
HELEN, the host's other sister, whom every one wants to marry, but who doesn't want to marry any one, ESTELLE WINWOOD
ERNEST, a scientist, who believes in neither divorce nor marriage but makes a great discovery SHELLEY HULL (By arrangement with George C. Tyler)
One afternoon shortly before the New York "opening" of this comedy a most estimable lady sat down to make me a cup of tea.
"Now, do tell me, what is your play about?" she inquired with commendable enthusiasm. For, being a true woman, she had early achieved the becoming habit of letting members of the superior sex talk about themselves.